We filed a report Monday morning, then had a Panamanian friend call Union Fenosa every 2 hours to jack them up to get it fixed. Tuesday morning, still no power.
Our friend called and they said they tried to fix it Monday night but they couldn't find our house...it was too dark.
Now wait a minute. Don't they know it is going to be dark given that the power is out?
Tuesday morning our friend called again and they filed a second report. Standard procedure. They have to fix a problem in 24 hours so if they don't get it done, they cancel the first work order and pull a second one...with a new 24 hour time commitment.
Tricky. Do they really believe this shit flies?
When our friend called again, she laid the "Panama" story on them. This is standard procedure for anything. She made up some convoluted, crazy story about a sick old woman who had to have medical things run by power at our house. Blah blah blah.
It must have worked because they fixed the power by noon.
The on going saga in the Broadway Review of the curtain puller issue has been a devil of a problem to fix. So we had "curtain pulling" practice to start the rehearsal last night. For pity sake, curtain puller practice.
It didn't help one bit. We still end up with half the curtain open and half closed after each act.
We ran into a new problem.
The duet I'm in is terrible, as you well know. It is absolutely critical to get it started right so the piano player lays out the notes of the first chord, then plays the cord 4 times and we start. All this is so we can start on the right and same note.
When the song started last night, it was a wall of weird, deviate sound. It took us a full verse to find the right notes. Torture!
The power goes out here frequently for very short periods of time. This RESETS the piano. Thus ruining all the key change settings and tone settings.
Almost a disaster. You have to be prepared for anything in Panama!
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