Santa came last night

Sometimes we get what we want without expecting it. Birthdays and Christmas aside it is rare that we receive something we didn't even know we needed.

A ship took out the power lines to the island we live on some time yesterday afternoon. It was different seeing the island dark. The stars were amazingly bright in the ocean's darkness. Coleman lanterns, board games, and family reunion time was the order of the night. Hot dogs and smoked sausage filled our bellies. Preparing mountains of blankets and donning our warmest pajamas led us to slumber and be awakened finally by the return of the power returning to warm our water, cool our milk, and heat our reunited hearts.

I believe Santa came last night.

Palm blogging

I have been considering blogging from the comfort of my palm pilot (actually a Sony model but a rose is a rose by any other name) but the lack of a keyboard tends to slow things down. I got to thinking slowing down might be just what the doctor ordered. As you can tell this isn't a daily, weekly, or even a monthly endeavor. I blog when whimsey strikes and that is the way it shall remain. I prefer quality over quantity and slowing down might help my thoughts gel a bit while I am Graffiti-ing the words.

I have started a blog that is all about my Jeep because I didn't really want this one to get cluttered up with complaints about miniscule rust spots, cd players that won't play cd-r's and the like. Heck if I merged the two (and added in my super-secret work blog) maybe this would be considered a regularly updated blog. Alas it would be all over the board in that case.