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Haunted for Halloween
Oct. 12th, 2014 03:36 pmThis past week has been full of weird, unfortunate, and sometimes inexplicable events.
It started around Monday, when I went out to check the garden and discovered that one of the branches of my persimmon tree had broken, despite my attempt to brace it with a bamboo pole. Judging by the half-eaten fruit on the ground, I suspect that a squirrel climbed out on the branch to get at the persimmons, and the added weight was too much for it. I pruned off the broken branch and set the green fruit on a bowl of apples in the house, in the hope that they might still ripen enough to be edible.
On Tuesday, I was looking in my living room display cabinet, when I noticed that a couple items had fallen over. I suspect it was probably caused by the earthquake back in August and I just didn't look closely at them until now. When I opened the cabinet to put them back upright, however, I discovered a Japanese figurine that was twisted 90° clockwise. I suppose it's possible the earthquake did that too, but...turning it without knocking it over?
It's really creepy. Prankster with access to my house? Ghost? I'm trying not to think about it. Especially at night.
While I was at work on Wednesday, I was informed that I would have to come in on Thursday (my day off) for a sudden training workshop. My day off would be switched to Saturday instead.
I got home after work and checked my email, only to find a notification from Kickstarter thanking me for backing a game. Now, I had looked at the game's campaign page and clicked the "remind me" button, but I had not pledged for it. I loaded up the Kickstarter page to check, and sure enough, it had me listed as a backer for the game. That REALLY freaked me out. Coming after the display cabinet incident, I started to wonder if I really did have a ghost. I changed my password (in case my account had been hacked) and canceled the pledge.
I then needed to do a load of laundry, since I had used all my uniforms for the week but still had to go to work the next day. When I went to take the laundry out of the washer, I spotted a significant puddle on the floor underneath the door (it's a front-loading machine). At least it's the cement floor out in the garage, so I'm not too worried about water damage, but I don't want to use a leaking machine. I called up to have a service person sent out, but the soonest someone can come is next Friday. It's still under warranty, so I won't have to pay anything for the repair, but it's an annoyance.
Thursday was uneventful. Yay?
On Friday, I was trying to relax by watching some saved up shows on my DVR, when there was a minor electrical disturbance. (It was enough to reset the digital clock on my oven.) The DVR rebooted. Then rebooted again. Then rebooted again. After the third reboot cycle, I called the company for assistance, but all they could do over the phone was try rebooting the machine from their end. Three more reboots, and the customer service person scheduled me for a service call the following morning. The DVR continued to cycle through reboots all day until I finally unplugged it at 6pm. Was this the result of an ordinary problem with the power company, or a case of the ghost striking again?
Fortunately my internet was unaffected...
The service person came on Saturday morning and informed me there was nothing he could do to fix the DVR. He could only swap it out for a new machine. That meant I lost all the shows I had saved on the DVR memory up to that point (which was a significant number). He didn't have any substitutes of the same model, so I ended up getting a free upgrade with nearly double the memory. I would be more impressed if I didn't now fear I could lose the memory at any moment with no warning.
I called up![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
megory to chat, and I did solve the mystery of the Kickstarter pledge. It seems that I checked Kickstarter back in August using her computer, and the computer remembered all my login information. When she opened Kickstarter to pledge for the game, she did it under my account instead of hers. Oops.
I'm crossing my fingers that my haunting has now run its full course and nothing else around my house will suddenly break down or otherwise go crazy.
It started around Monday, when I went out to check the garden and discovered that one of the branches of my persimmon tree had broken, despite my attempt to brace it with a bamboo pole. Judging by the half-eaten fruit on the ground, I suspect that a squirrel climbed out on the branch to get at the persimmons, and the added weight was too much for it. I pruned off the broken branch and set the green fruit on a bowl of apples in the house, in the hope that they might still ripen enough to be edible.
On Tuesday, I was looking in my living room display cabinet, when I noticed that a couple items had fallen over. I suspect it was probably caused by the earthquake back in August and I just didn't look closely at them until now. When I opened the cabinet to put them back upright, however, I discovered a Japanese figurine that was twisted 90° clockwise. I suppose it's possible the earthquake did that too, but...turning it without knocking it over?
It's really creepy. Prankster with access to my house? Ghost? I'm trying not to think about it. Especially at night.
While I was at work on Wednesday, I was informed that I would have to come in on Thursday (my day off) for a sudden training workshop. My day off would be switched to Saturday instead.
I got home after work and checked my email, only to find a notification from Kickstarter thanking me for backing a game. Now, I had looked at the game's campaign page and clicked the "remind me" button, but I had not pledged for it. I loaded up the Kickstarter page to check, and sure enough, it had me listed as a backer for the game. That REALLY freaked me out. Coming after the display cabinet incident, I started to wonder if I really did have a ghost. I changed my password (in case my account had been hacked) and canceled the pledge.
I then needed to do a load of laundry, since I had used all my uniforms for the week but still had to go to work the next day. When I went to take the laundry out of the washer, I spotted a significant puddle on the floor underneath the door (it's a front-loading machine). At least it's the cement floor out in the garage, so I'm not too worried about water damage, but I don't want to use a leaking machine. I called up to have a service person sent out, but the soonest someone can come is next Friday. It's still under warranty, so I won't have to pay anything for the repair, but it's an annoyance.
Thursday was uneventful. Yay?
On Friday, I was trying to relax by watching some saved up shows on my DVR, when there was a minor electrical disturbance. (It was enough to reset the digital clock on my oven.) The DVR rebooted. Then rebooted again. Then rebooted again. After the third reboot cycle, I called the company for assistance, but all they could do over the phone was try rebooting the machine from their end. Three more reboots, and the customer service person scheduled me for a service call the following morning. The DVR continued to cycle through reboots all day until I finally unplugged it at 6pm. Was this the result of an ordinary problem with the power company, or a case of the ghost striking again?
Fortunately my internet was unaffected...
The service person came on Saturday morning and informed me there was nothing he could do to fix the DVR. He could only swap it out for a new machine. That meant I lost all the shows I had saved on the DVR memory up to that point (which was a significant number). He didn't have any substitutes of the same model, so I ended up getting a free upgrade with nearly double the memory. I would be more impressed if I didn't now fear I could lose the memory at any moment with no warning.
I called up
megory to chat, and I did solve the mystery of the Kickstarter pledge. It seems that I checked Kickstarter back in August using her computer, and the computer remembered all my login information. When she opened Kickstarter to pledge for the game, she did it under my account instead of hers. Oops.I'm crossing my fingers that my haunting has now run its full course and nothing else around my house will suddenly break down or otherwise go crazy.
