Another town and one more show

I just finished my first paper and now the serious goofing off has begun–popped open a Fresca, Black Cherry Citrus and started cruising the internet.

We had a pretty big rain/wind storm here late last night/early this morning and for those of you who have well water, you’ll appreciate this. I woke up at 6:45 and got into the shower. I got dressed and went downstairs to get a bowl of cereal. I decided to detour to the bathroom to take care of a call from nature. I took care of it and then washed my hands. I went back to the kitchen and poured Raisin Bran into a bowl. The lights went out hard then weakly flickered a couple of times before finally dying. It was a little after 7. Then the power supplies all over the house started whining. The first thing I thought was thank goodness I was able to flush that toilet. Of course, you always get one flush per toilet when you are on well water and the power goes out, but I know it would have freaked me out if I’d been in the bathroom doing my thing and the power died.

As it was, I started shutting off power supplies and then went in to wake the better-half. How he sleeps through beep-beep-beeping is amazing to me. He was deeply asleep when I woke him but he stumbled into his office to start bringing down all his servers. While he was doing that, I went to the one old school phone we have and reported the power outage.

By the time he came down to start up the generator, I was done with breakfast and was reading a little bit about how to write my first paper by the cool light of a Rayovac fluorescent lantern that we inherited from the previous owners. They left a ton of crap all over the yard and in the woods-at least a couple of things were worth keeping.

The power was off for less time than the power company thought and it meant no more procrastinating for me. I turned on the computer and got to work. I should probably get back to it.