Today is September 22nd. But there will probably not be fireworks ( Read more... )

Power came back on at 10:00 am.

Hot showers! Internet! Laundry! Two hours of Babylon 5!

*sings* "The future looks bright now / to Edison's light now!"

:D

The most recent update says we should have power back on on Sunday ( Read more... )

Yesterday a professor who lives in my complex said we should be getting power back on Friday. Joy of Joys ( Read more... )

With the power out, the only thing in our house that works is Joel-Henry's cell phone with its impressively long battery life.

We use it as our alarm clock in the morning. It goes bingly bingly BEEP!Just like Sam Vimes' pocket disorganizer ( Read more... )

So apparently this hasn't hit national news yet ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, commemorating the discovery of relics of the true cross by St. Helena in the third century. When the feast falls on a Sunday it pre-empts the normal liturgy. So there was wearing of red, some neat Triduum music (Isaac Watts!) and some familiar readings in a new context. The last time ( Read more... )