lights out
yesterday i had the day off.
apparently, so did our power. no, that isn't fair -- it was only out for maybe an hour and change. it felt like ages, though. the house was dark and cold.
paul was not happy. the tv was out, the lights didn't work, heat was off... the laptop worked, but what good was it as a standalone machine? if i couldn't get to google video, there was no point in it working at all.
we snuggled up in bed with the blinds open, reading paul's beloved books (which he has, to some extent, memorized). when the power kicked back on -- in parts -- it became apparently a boy had no interest in napping, so we got up and watched some tv. cam had to work a half day (he thought it was going to be a full day, so he was rather startled to be sent home after lunch), so he showed up not too long before a boy decided it was naptime and just fell asleep in my lap.
i was wary of possible power outages for the rest of the day, but the rain never came back. i read in the paper today that power was out for much longer in neighboring areas, so we really lucked out -- still, try telling that to a two-year-old boy determined to watch a video clip featuring a guy and a train.