Brad’s Blog

So we’re sitting here at 10 pm in the pitch dark, blogging by the glow of laptop screens spread around the room and out on the porch. This is the third or fourth power failure today, and the second since the sun went down. The last time the power came on, a huge cheer was heard going up among the public neighbourhoods surrounding us.

Of course, this posting cannot be posted until the power comes back on and powers our Internet connection. Without electricity, we’re back in the pre-electrical era, with laptops whose value can be calculated by their remaining battery life. Soon, we’ll have a bunch of expensive door stops and paper weights.