Birthdays, Planes, and Powerlessness

Posted on 09/15/2024 by chick
  • I had a good birthday. When I walked into my office in the morning, I found a beautiful bouquet of flowers and a bag of biscoitos. Later I got to spend some time with my husband, whom I haven’t seen much of these last few weeks, because he’s been so busy with work. Then he and the kids and I went to dinner at the nearby Mexican restaurant that we’ve been meaning to try. The food was good, but a bit salty (however, reheated and served with plain rice, it made a yummy lunch the next day). I also spoke to my bestie on the phone. What more could I hope for?
  • Planes sometimes fly over our house, but usually just the very small ones or the very big ones flying so high that they don’t draw that much attention to themselves. Today, we heard such a ruckus above that we went outside to see what it was. It was a pair of fighter jets. Wow. They’re so cool, but so noisy!
  • We lost power suddenly and for no apparent reason this afternoon. I said to my husband, “I hope it’s not WWIII!” As I walked around outside later, because there was little to do inside that didn’t require electricity, I thought about how weird it would be to be relaxing outside and enjoying the late-summer weather as the world at large was, unbeknownst to me, falling into chaos. I realized that if it had indeed been the beginning of the Apocalypse, my joke about WWIII would have made feel bad afterward, as if suggesting the possibility of war could have somehow made me responsible for it. Weird. Perhaps I need to do what my old friend Tony use to always say I should do, and resign my position as General Manager of the Universe
  • While the power continued to be out, I kept thinking about things to do. Every single one needed power. So I sat down with a pen and paper and started a list called “Can Do Sans Elect.” I was just one item into the list (“cut nails”), when the power came back on. Thank God!
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