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[ealgylden]

Huzzah! I have power again! And it took much less time than I was expecting to get it back, which is always good.

It's not the lack of electricity that bothers me in situations like this. That's annoying, but survivable. It's not even the fact that it was in the high eighties today and I had no working fans. It's the lack of running water that was most problematic. Well water might taste better than municipal water, but that hardly matters when it's still stuck in the well and the pump is electric.

Running water and working plumbing. Among the greatest blessings of civilization. Don't take them for granted.

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[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Ha! Yeah, because LI is such a paradise. Sheesh. I have nothing against cities in general. Some of them I love (not New York, I admit, but some cities), and I like the fact that I have several major ones within reasonable driving distance (sushi! yay!). But that "there's nothing worthwhile outside The City and our lives are so much better while simultaneously so much more stressful and worthy of sympathy and attention" attitude that's sometimes seen drives me up the wall. Oh shuddup, city people, that's not true.

"Diamond-laden hands"? Snerk.