1. take a nap - if you can, napping is the best way to ignore the power outage. It will come back on eventually.
2. get in the car and go to the grocery store - at least they have a/c. Try to avoid purchasing everything in the frozen food section.
3. take dog for a walk - this is a fine idea, but you eventually have to return to your domicile, in hopes that the power is back on. If it's not, then you're hot and sweaty with a hot and sweaty dog.
4. power down your laptop. If you don't, it will die and then your last connection to the world will be lost and you will have to resort to smoke signals and/or paper airplanes.
5. make fans out of leftover paper like you did in 4th grade. One for each hand is preferable.
6. go down to the basement with the excuse of "seeing if the switch needs to be flipped." most of the time, the switch is not the problem, but the basement is a solid 15 degrees cooler than the house. In your industriousness, do NOT do laundry as the heat from the dryer will negate the 15 degree advantage.
7. drive to the shore and drink blueberry beer with your piano teacher.
And which of these are we doing tonight my friends? We're picking Lucky Number Seven and going to see Dr. Lois Leventhal, the wonderful woman to whom this blog is dedicated and by whom it was inspired. Lolo is waiting for us with a fridge full of cold Wachusett Blueberry Beer* and once the sun sets, we're going to cook some butter chicken and eat it on the porch. Because it's really the only civilized thing one can do.
*Before I catch flak from my beer drinking friends, I want to say that I was very skeptical about the blueberry beer. I'm not a person who conventionally enjoys the fruity beer - sticking an orange in my Blue Moon is really about as close as I'll get. Even Turbodog and Purple Haze are a little much for me. But I tell you, my true believer friends, the Wachusett Blueberry Beer is nothing to scoff at. It is seriously tasty and in no way resembles a wine cooler or anything you would be heckled for drinking at a football game by a self-respecting redneck.
Ta ta for now, I'm going to expire in the next room.
1 comment:
Just found your blog, thanks to Conor's blog, of which I am a great fan. Power outage...ouch! But at least its not as humid up there as it is down here in Louisiana! (I assume that you are also from the south, since you wrote about Slidell and Denham Springs)I also wanted to tell you thanks for the review of A Prairie Home Companion, which I did not get to see, but wanted to because I love the radio show. Now that I know that it is good, I will definitely rent it. Hope you cool off soon!
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