No me lo puedo creer!

Nowadays I work online. I still have problems with some aspects of the Spanish language (mainly that most people here talk too fast for me!), so getting a job in this area, which is 99.9% all Spanish speaking is difficult, if not impossible.

My online work is progressing slowly. It now helps to pay the bills and provide some badly needed ‘extras’, but, as the ‘products’ I sell are very much whim based, getting those sales involves much hard work and many hours online. As I am a bit of a pc addict, those factors are not a problen (apart from severe lack of sleep…). However, one factor which is a major hindrance to getting the job done is the Spanish electricity System.

Generally, Spanish power cables are not placed underground. Instead they are looped from the sub station to the nearest house, and then run from house to house, just below roof level. The cables cross streets and wind their way through our village in a rather haphazard fashion, which apears to be based more on who had their electricity installed first, second, and so on, than any more structured system. The cables also hang down fairly loosely. This means that the cables sway in the wind…

March and April in this region are the months of tormentas (storms - a very appropriate name I think) and high winds. When the wind reaches gale force (a frequent occurrence), the cables swing so badly that electricity to our house ebbs and flows. Sometimes something comes unattached at a vital point …

(Don’t think he can really help much here …)

Today, I logged onto my pc to get some work done …. only to be forcefully logged off by a power cut a few minutes later. The same thing happened at least 6 or 7 times (I lost count…). The power cuts were between ten and thirty minutes long, and each time the electricity came back on and I switched on my pc, it had to do a system check. And that takes a long time…

I have given up at the moment on getting any work done and have logged in here instead. You never know, I may even get this entry finished before another power cut ……