I can't remember if I posted this.... it's been a rather... blustery? week thus far.
We started out with Hurricane Irene (and yes I'm totally illustrating something in her honor) which knocked out studio & home power for 5 days. Irene-refugee tis me!
It's been interesting, meeting lots of folks while in search of showers, internet and places to charge my apple tech.
Yesterday I sat across from a man that looked like Don Cheadle. Only this guy looked really grouchy while Don happens to be a favored actor that smiles a whole bunch.
Also spotted yesterday:
- -A nurse that gave up her life to spend 6months a year in Africa helping children find clean drinking water and battle simple illnesses and diseases. She was awesome and all kinds of cheery goodness.
- -A semi blind man who likes to walk laps in the library just because.
- -And a lady who had a macbook across from me with the sound ON- so every time she got mail and it *binged!* I feel into pavlov's-mac habit and thought it was mine. hahahaha
Fun facts about losing power and water after a storm:
- It takes roughly a full gallon of water to flush your loo/bog/potty etc etc. (an you put the water in the tank not the bowl)
- A LOT of TMI comes out during a storm, people tell you things you really don't need to know.
- Cold showers are not AS awful as one would think- you actually wake up really fast!
- When all else fails and you can't find bags of ice- check a Mobile station.
- Just throw the meat out. Don't try to save it.
- It's a really good excuse to get new undies- and those Tide portable stain stick things are amazing.
- The Red Cross Disaster Relief trucks really DO exist.
- Coffee is your friend, milk kept in a cooler is a friend of a friend you may not want to know better.
- Iced tea does in fact mold.
- Ice cream lasts less than 3hours in a downed freezer.
- giant boxes of matches rule
- take out is fantastic
- it's not such a bad idea to look into building a windmill in ones back yard....
Cheers! And once I'm back up and running 100% I'll be posting regularly, there's much to share!
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