April 06, 2011
Power Outage
Good morning! I dropped the girls off at their schools. I doubled back a bit and got a fresh haircut. Then I head down to Boxborough, re-listening to that talk by Fr. Barron I'd mentioned yesterday. When I got to the office we had little power. A car accident had hit a power line. And true to Murphy's law, a minute after IT pulled the plug on the server farm (they were running on UPS's), the power came back on line.
81 unread work emails. Sigh. The downside of being 3 time zones ahead of the San Diego headquarters.
DISH Network Agrees to Acquire Blockbuster Assets - (related link)
Our vending machine is serving free Rice Krispies Treats, feelin' 10 years old again
Left work around 6 o'clock to head to RCIA. Got stuck in stop 'n go traffic in Groton as a line crew had a pair of trucks working on a pole along Rt. 119. Called the RCIA director to let him know it was unlikely I could make it to tonight's class on time. On the bright side, I got another issue of Gilbert magazine in the mail today. And Timothy got the large print paperback of Harry Potter #1 I'd ordered for him.
Pretty quiet evening. Got the boys tucked in bed with their prayers. Soon I'll be following their example. At least most of the week is over and the weekend is in sight.
“When somebody wishes to wage a social war against what all normal people have regarded as a social decency, the very first thing he does is to find some artificial term that shall sound relatively decent” -- G.K. Chesterton (June 30, 1928. Illustrated London News)
Played around in Photoshop for a bit. See snapshot at right. It's getting late though so I'm calling it a night...