{"id":13805,"date":"2020-12-23T08:50:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T15:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=13805"},"modified":"2020-12-23T19:20:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T02:20:07","slug":"dec-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2020\/12\/23\/dec-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec 23 No lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-qt qt_119068\"><strong>It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"bq_fq_a\"><strong>Aristotle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I just read that I may not be the only one without power for Christmas. Parts of California and Nova Scotia may lose power as well due to climatic conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Mine is just due to Amazon trying to make Bezo richer by shipping my generator by a substandard shipping method and Canada Post for offering a shipping method without tracking in the information age. Never mind the arrogance of offering help without really helping.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone that has used the virtual chat on the Canada post website knows what I mean. To have a system that tells you what you already know is insulting. The package has not arrived but no one can tell me why.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/12\/wp-1608748627362-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13816\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2020\/12\/23\/dec-23\/wp-1608748627362\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/12\/wp-1608748627362-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1440\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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