As of 5:15 p.m. EDT, my apartment complex is still sans electricity. The building management is about to put the hurt on Dominion Power (formerly known as Virginia Power, but now at the lovely URL of dom.com – wtf?) – in any case, they’re extremely anxious to get the power restored. They are, however, firing up the generators so we can use the elevators.

I heard from beledibabe, who is home with electricity but no Internet. She wants you all to know she’s well and is hanging out hoping to get reconnected sometime soon.

Evidently, we’re going to get more rain. Le sigh.

I’m just praying for the restoration of building power and that we KEEP it.

ETA: I procrastinated at work to charge up my laptop battery and my Palm battery, then stopped by the grocery to buy a cheap cooler and some dry ice. Sometime between 7:30 and 8:00 – the power came back on. It was on when I got here. A few of the apartments are having issues with some of the areas in their apartments, but mine is fine. It’s damned hot in here and it’s going to take some time for the a/c to cool it off, but I have ELECTRICITY!!

beledibabe tells it like it was…even though she’s in Maryland and I’m in Northern Virginia.

Unlike her, I, once again, am still without power this morning. I trudged down the same 10 flights of stairs, this time with a bag of groceries (primarily my cold cuts, cheeses and such), in addition to the overnight bag and the laptop bag. According to the news, more than 60,000 homes were without power last night. Today it’s down to 27,000 (in NoVA). Supposedly, we’re going to have our power restored by this evening. I certainly hope so.

I’d really rather spend tonight at home.

Sigh.

Happy Canada Day to all my friends north of the 49th and to those of us honourary citizens. ::g::

I’m back in my apartment.
The cleaning people came yesterday.
The new grocery delivery came last night.
I’m going book shopping and then having lunch with a dear friend. (Tanya Huff’s new book is out!)
And it’s stopped raining.

Can’t get much better than this.

Oh, yeah – it can…On Wednesday, beledibabe and I go to see an RCMP presentation at the Smithsonian.

Life is sometimes so very sweet.

Hugs to all who need them.