Hey gals! We had a little "excitement" last night. I was about to shut down the computer for the night when all of a sudden the power goes gim & then out. It was very strange. Usually it just goes out, not slowly out. We went out to see what was going on & someone said that PG & E (Pacific Gas & Electric) was out by the grocery store working on the lines. Kevin went over there and found out that it was the transformer. I guess PG & E could tell there was a problem & sent a crew out who then turned off the power. They said one of the lines was fixing to catch fire and it could've been a lot worse. We were only without power from 8:30 to about midnight; it took them longer because they had to go to their warehouse to get a couple of specialty-like parts. We have battery back up, but we didn't want to drain it so I lit a bunch of candles and waited it out. I started to get sleepy and then blew them all out. I have never liked complete darkness- one of those childhood things that still give me the heebie-jeebies. There was some light in the back of the boat (not sure what from as I didn't see the moon- I guess from distant city lights). But when I leaned out of the bunk & looked forward, it was pitch black save for the battery power guage light. Yeah, I'm a baby when it comes to complete darkness. I have *NO* idea how you guys affected by the East Coast blackout did it. I guess you just *do* and make due with what you've got. I admire ya'll for that. It was nice with the candles- I *love* candles and it gave me an excuse to light a lot of them.

Jan- What you wrote to Nan was beyond words- you said what I was thinking but couldn't gather the words to write- all very true! Yeah, HR is on my to do list for Monday- I think I will write out something this weekend. MSN is weird with email I've noticed (and now remember). My other stepson has MSN and it seems he has trouble opening attachments (or they just disappear altogether). My grandma & her boyfriend (hehehe- cute, huh!) have MSN too and sometimes I have trouble sending to them too. LOL- Jonathan Hunt & Elvis Costello- YEAH! There *is* something similar about them, huh! I'm going to have to go back to the article again- I missed the Rosenthal connection.

Well, I'm going to try to be on AIM today. I need to get some stuff done around here today, especially now that a killer sinus headache has left the boat. I think there was a big fire around here somewhere yesterday but I couldn't find anything about it online. The smell was very overpowering- so much that I had to use my inhaler (and this was late last night), so I think that had something to do with it. But I've had my drugs of choice (Sudafed Cold/Allergy & Advil) and I'm back in action. So.....I'll prolly be on, and if I'm away, I'll try to remember to put my away message on. I need to help Kevin outside here & there (he's painting the lower part of the mast that they didn't get done last weekend) so I'll need to crank the winch (the thing that raises & lowers sails & now humans-lol- up & down the mast).