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August 15, 2003
After the Blackout.
I got power back here in Scottsville, NY shockingly fast in comparison to the rest of the area... We lose power a lot here in Scottsville... We're just on the edge of the Niagara Mohawk area, so I think we may have more outages than others.
At any rate, Tuesday I was doing some cleaning up, etc until Jeff decided he wanted to go to Boldo's Armory to buy the Lord of the Rings game... Boldo's is a nice place... It's smaller than Millennium, but it has a great selection of EuroGames and a decent selection of other books/games/cards. I've never actually hung out there to play some games, but perhaps I shall at some point... Before we went though, we made an arrangement to meek Keb & Sherry for dinner. So Jeff and I went to get the game, stopped by the mall to pick up a video game that just came in for him, and then met Keb, Sherry (and a bit later, Steve) at Cracker Barrel. Afterward, they came back to our house while Jeff, Steve and I played (I think) a game of New England.
That night I stayed up REALLY late afterward and got a lot of cleaning done... It was the most productive I've been in a while. Mopped some floors, did some sorting, moved several boxes of stuff that was still all packed up from the previous move and sorted quite a bit of it out... I went to bed after the sun came up.
The rest of Wednesday was a little odd. I had an afternoon meeting with some of the other Rochester CCC leadership... Doing some planning for an upcoming meeting about a week from now. Got a tour of the new Campus Center of MCC... Wow, it's actually really cool. That evening, I had a rescheduled Bible Study (It's my continuing bible/book study on "Celebration of Discipline" which has been going really well)... But it's also my normal night for board games. Everyone at the study was surprised that I showed up anyway. I started out, though at Games (at Six) when it started... And, for the 2nd week in a row, someone else was in our reserved room... But everyone went to a different room for a while as I waited to meet people who were coming to the room but didn't know where to go. Since Games goes pretty late, I was able to leave around 6:30 and come back around 9:30 and people were still gaming. Unfortunately, I know I missed hanging out with some new visitors... I had hoped they'd still be there when I got back, but I guess they had to get going.
Afterwards, 5 of us went to Denny's for late dinner. Mmmmm Moons over My Hammy.
Today (Thursday Morning, actually), I woke up overheated because our Air Conditioner Konked out overnight. Jeff called up the Clearview Farms Apartment management to have someone come out and look at it... And it turns out that it's going to need more work than a single day's worth... Hopefully tomorrow... Right at the moment when he was about to tell us the bad news about the AC, that's when the electricity goes out... our first inclination was that somehow he had either turned it off or made the breakers flip. It wasn't until Jeff's mother called him on his cell phone that we discovered that it was more than just the Scottsville area that had lost power... Good thing we didn't get in the car and go to Taco Bell like Jeff wanted to... :)
So we sat and listened to Bob Lonsberry on WHAM 1180 for a few hours until the lights came back on. (We're quite disappointed that we missed the Amazing Race tonight)... After the lights came back on, I finally got the rest of the stuff that was under the stairs moved elsewhere in anticipation of possibly moving my computer down there... This may still happen, but when I moved a small desk over to the location it looked very wrong... But it's mostly because the back of the desk looked terrible. One of my other desks may be better there. There also another location downstairs that not under the stairs that may work well for a computer desk...
Anyways, so it's now very late again, but still dark out... I'm about to go to bed. Have a good night.
Posted by Andrew at August 15, 2003 05:16 AM