So yesterday...it was Shelly's birthday (not his best day ever by a long shot). I took him to lunch because I knew I wouldn't get home from classes until about 9:30 pm and that was nice enough - even if we were both bitchin' about our mutually rotten days. Well - about 3 PM I found out that the President would be coming through town and they were going to *SHUT DOWN THE WEST BOUND INTERSTATE before 5:00PM*. All I have to say is, Are you F*&(ING SERIOUS? So, Baton Rouge depends upon its Interstate and shutting half of it down just at rush hour is about the most inane thing I ever flipping heard of. Needless to say, leaving my office at 5:08 and getting to the studio for my 5:30 class did not happen (this is typically a 10-15 minute trip). Alas, when I arrived at the studio, no one was waiting - if they had come for class, they had certainly already left. I went downstairs and had a beer...which I hate doing by myself, but I read a little too and that calmed me some. When no one arrived for my 6:45 class, I let everyone know I was bailing on the 8:00 PM class and headed home.
The whole way home I was thinking, cool, I get to actually make supper for Shelly's birthday instead of 'picking something up.' (oh, and maybe I could get in a few guesses at the Geisha Moth U.F.O. contest!) I arrived home about 7:15 with Shelly sticking his head out of the door, "The power just went out," he was telling me. Great.
There was NO rain, NO wind, NO nothing that would have caused the power to go out...nothing. Then we began seeing this HUGE storm cloud rolling in with brilliant flashes of lightening...and then it stalled, just to the North East of the house. We never got any rain, but apparently the storms in town were outrageous and fierce. About 9:30 we decided that we just couldn't wait for the power any longer, we were hungry and unwilling to leave the house again after my previous encounters with traffic that day. So I "Cooked" up a couple bowls of cereal for Shelly's grand birthday supper....and comeon ...guess what I'm going to say next? The power came back on just as we were finishing up the cereal - and you can forget my brain actually functioning enough to make a guess at the U.F.O.s....so we put in DiLorentes' DUNE (the extended version) and fell asleep while the Harkonnen's plotted against House Atreides....
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