Sitting at work on a Saturday night

Who in their right mind would volunarily be at work on a Saturday night?

Well, given that I have not had power for going on 2 days, and it's warm here, me. A huge wind storm blew through on Friday and knocked over 1 million meters offline. That's meter count, not people count. The whole city of Redmond, including the evil empire, was offline for about 24 hours. Last night about 11:45 the city came back on line. I know this because my power kicked back in at about that time. Unfortuantely, it went back out 2 minutes later. And has stayed out. At last check the room temperature and fridge temperature were narrowing in on each other, Room 51, fridge 45. I'm hoping the power will come back on before I lose the several hundreds of dollars of frozen dinners in my freezer.

So after wandering around for a while today shopping and being warm in various retail spaces, I'm taking advantage of the network and power at work. At least for a few minutes more while the electronics finish charging. Then I'm going to go pick take out chinese and go home and light several dozen candles. I've had several offers of staying on the couch of people with power or generators, but I'd rather stay home with my boys. Besides. Every once in a while its fun to snuggle in with a book and read to candle light. But I'm thinking the shelf life on that one is exactly one night. But this gives me a chance to burn some of the several hundred candles I have.

I'm particularly frustrated that I will not be able to make a promised dessert for a party tomorrow. Unfortunately all the grocery stores were offline long enough that they tossed their soft cheeses. So marscarpone is not to be had. So no Eggnog Tiramisu Trifle for the college crowd. Luckily I have been able to get the ingredients for the Mocha Raspberry trifle. I'll head down to Chez Carter a bit early and put it together down there.

You can thank Rkimedes for this entry. She called earlier while they were out running errands and bemoaned the fact that she couldn't blog about being isolated by the power outage.

First, a few news items.

Here are a few news items of interest over the last week:

A week ago:
377 Ill on Freedom of the Seas, Norovirus blamed


And today:
Norovirus Attacks Royal Caribbean's 'Freedom of the Seas'
Second Outbreak prompts cruise ship scrubbing

First, we're all fine. But it made for an interesting week. Much more info to come.