When I returned home from accompanying choir rehearsal last night, I was greeted by complete darkness. As a result of what can be described as no less than Ohio weather, our entire street, with other sporadic regions of Canton, were without electrical power.

Of course, until you've brushed your teeth and/or relieved yourself in complete darkness, you haven't truly experienced the joys of a power outage. In an instant, huge numbers of people are flung back into an earlier era of Spartan living with few if any modern conveniences. In our case, we were only offset a few decades or so (the MacBook was still functional off of battery power). What's more, because the power failure occurred in the dead of winter, our house temperature dropped from its normal freezing temperature to just downright sub-arctic temperature.

The power came back on just about a half hour ago, and that is how I am able to post this update for your reading pleasure. Feel free to share your own power outage anecdotes in the comments.

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