The first planned power outage begins at 11 p.m. tonight and ends at 7 a.m. tomorrow. I think we've thought through the implications but more keep occuring to me as I think about my routine.
I will be getting up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. It's been a decade since that hasn't been necessary. When you live out in the woods there is NO ambient light and it's going to be overcast and probably raining so we also won't have any heavenly help. In the absence of the night light normally on in the bathroom we're going to find out how well I know my way around MoHo.
Let's hope I'm not in a real big hurry, eh?
Oh, and don't flush.
Morning coffee.
I'm typically sipping on my first cup about 4 a.m., which is three hours before I can make or heat up a cup. So before going to bed I'll nuke a couple of cups and put them in a thermos. Boom!
I'll leave about 6 a.m. and head into town for b'fast, more coffee, and internet. Maybe a stop at Dizzy's for a cinnamon roll before coming home.
At 10 a.m. Joe is going to call from Recife, Brazil so we can talk through some things related to my trip there the end of August to teach. I think it's pretty cool that we can do that, and for free. Not that many years ago it would have been impossible or cost a small fortune.
After that phone call I'll go out to Barnette and work on Sally - some body work and more sanding. The rain starts in a few hours and goes for the next 24 so I have to be under cover. Especially because some areas are down to bare metal.
Did you see that the Pope changed the wording of the Lord's Prayer? National headline.
He correctly identified the problem but came up with the wrong solution.
I'll spare you the explanation, just point out that he'd have done better to look at the Greek text instead of the Latin Vulgate.
A teacher at a high school in Fort Worth was fired by a unanimous vote of the school board. She'd taught there for 21 years. So what got her fired?
She sent a tweet to Pres. Trump asking him to take action to get the illegal immigrants out of her school. She said the school had been taken over by drug dealers and nothing was done when the cops' dogs found drugs on campus.
She says she thought her tweet would only be seen by the president, not the public.
Ooops.
Never mind the merits of her firing or the accuracy of her claims, what surprised - shocked - me was what the article said about illegal immigrants and public schools.
In 1982 the Supreme Court ruled that a students immigration status can have no bearing on their right to a public education.
Did you know that???
The largest part of our property taxes anywhere we've lived is for the school district. It turns out we've been funding the education of people in the country illegally. So instead of taxation without representation we've got education without taxation.
Am I the only one that finds this ... wrong?
Two buckets of water now sit on the back porch for refilling the toilet tank. I've showered and will now go make a fresh pot of coffee to put in the thermos.
We will survive!
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