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My power came back on Monday night, after I returned from watching “Matchstick Men.” After cleaning out the refrigerator, it took another 4 hours to replace the food that was lost. Several stores were still closed in my immediate area, or selling non-perishables since their registers (and some lights) were the only things provided power [...]

Well, here it is: Day 4 and no power. I was lucky to find a WebCity CyberCafe nearby (paid for a little time) so I could post this. The skinny is that with all the water and wind nothing blew over in my yard (w00t!), and I still have phone service and clean water. However, [...]

I’m still alive. More later, when my batteries recharge ;).

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Yawn, I was awakened to the sound of my bedroom computer powering on after a power outage. Yep, you read that right - a computer in my bedroom - it is hooked up to a 19″ flat screen, Klipsch speakers and acts as my entertainment machine. Can you say geek? I knew you [...]

Well, Isabel is roughly 380+ miles away. Didn’t have to go in to work today so I made myself busy around the yard and in the house. In the last two hours I watched one of my neighbors put up wooden boards to shield his windows, received my order of Fit (veggie/fruit wash no longer [...]

Squidly Thoughts
Oh yippie. Hurricane Isabel is hovering a couple hundred miles southeast of my house. If you would like to read up on my impending doom, check out:
http://www.hurricaneadvisories.com/.
For a goof I checked a couple local grocery stores and found them mildly packed, and completely out of water. Strangely, the soda and juice aisles were relatively [...]

This is a test of the public blogging system. If this had been a real blog entry you would have read something witty, inspirational or down-right stupid. This concludes the Schlepping Squid’s test of this blogging system… (insert ear-splitting test tone)