Brown to Black

In case you're not following my every Tweet over there on the left sidebar or at Twitter, we had a brown out, then a full power outage today. Power went out briefly this morning, for a few seconds, then we had two brief "dims" for less than a second in early afternoon or so. But then a little after 3 we thought the whole power went out -- then realized the lights had gone very dim. Kinda freaky. We turned off most things, and called to report the partial outage. The lady said there were over a thousand calls from our area, although I don't know how big an area that means. The Grand Lunar came home awhile later, power was out downtown, too, and they'd actually evacuated his building. Apparently many things don't like brown outs, because they've got things to modulate their amperage and end up burning out their motors or something. I don't know.

Anyway, we ended up seeing most of our neighbors at the mall for dinner, and we hung out at the mall play area and Target until 8:30. Got home to find the power had been on for 24 minutes, so I guess we timed it well.

Grand Lunar went promptly back to work to restart all the things that had been shut down.

So ... and I ask out of concern for my finicky comments and curiosity, not trying to nag or pester for comments ... are my comments not working again? Or did no one read my last post? Or maybe I've become so sporadic in my blogging that no one reads here anymore. In which case you won't really need to know about the brown out. Although you might be interested in the baby swaddle sock. I will try to post about that someday. In the meantime I need to learn an *easy* and stretchy method of binding off 2x2 ribbing.