Man. I'm prepping a series of fairly lengthy posts relating our experience (still ongoing) about life in total darkness. Since Hurricane Isabel took our power Thursday night, we've lived like Little House on the Prairie, though I don't remember them swearing horrible oaths against Dominion Virginia Power or sweating quite as much as we are. No matter.

So a blackout-blog-within-a-blog will commence once I can charge up the power on the home machine and get our high-speed internet running again. In the meantime, imagine me standing in the half-light in water I heated by boiling it, dousing myself with a two-cup measure my wife will never be permitted to use for food preparation ever again. Nice imagery, huh?