The Internet on this bloody island died last night at just past 11pm … right in the middle of an important skype call and long before I was done with all I had to do.
My ISP has a “hot line” which is ALWAYS switched off outside of working hours … so actually cold as a corpse … but I do have the manager’s private cell phone number. Dialing fingers, for sure, only to find that that phone is also switched off .. en tenye, in Creole.
Fuck.
So, I go to bed. Fine. Whatevahhhhhhhh …
As always, I’m awake before 6am, grab my ‘puter, and, of course, find that nothing has been fixed and there is STILL no access. Dead as a doornail … and thanks for the explanation of that term, Andy …. as it was before I hit the hay.
Dialing again … Romano, Selwyn, Richard-the-hot-line-guy-for-the-night … en tenye.
Fuck.
I’m cursing island life, the cavalier attitudes of everyone with a job they are supposed to do … for which they charge a bloody fortune, by the way … stomping around infuriated by people who turn their phones off rather than do their jobs, and waiting for 7:00 to roll around in hopes that by then one of these incompetent jerks will be awake and reachable.
Then, what to my wondering eyes does appear before me?
A double rainbow just off my bedroom balcony.
Huge, it arcs from one side of the bay to beyond, emptying its pot of gold on the beach below me.
Okay. Fine. I get it.
I have work to do, people to contact, connections to make, demands upon me …
AND
A double rainbow to put that all in a beautiful perspective.
I’m paying attention now.
(I’d provide a photo of said double rainbow, but … the batteries I just bought for the camera are dead fresh out of the pack.
Island life … sigh.)
A collection of my short stories:
I'm in this one, too ...
And I'm in here, as well ...
Paradise Preoccupied 
S,
If it’s not one thing, it’s another. And they seem to add up exponentially.
The dead batteries would have just about done me in. That would have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.
But then a beautiful, incredible rainbow. A perfect message at a perfect time.
How wonderful….and good for the blood pressure too!
Didn’t figure out the battery thing until the rainbow presented itself …
Good thing, as I would have gone ballistic without the perspective prod.
When the tide seems to be moving against you at every turn, that is the universe’s way of telling you it is time to body surf.
Catch a wave. Enjoy life. Everything else can wait.
Too true, Lisa. And very poetic. You should write. Oh! Gee … you do!
How’s the new book coming along?
Very well, thanks! I hope to have it to my publisher by the end of the month.
Baw pen nyang is what the Laos always said for anything and everything. Translated, it means, in general – it’s nothing! No power for a week? Baw pen nyang. Months until your tv/radio can be fixed after your house is hit by lightening? Baw pen nyang. Been there! Hope it gets fixed!
Lesley