Blame weather for this one. I was literally mid-stream working on the chapter back when a storm blew through and blasted my power out. For two days. I have JUST gotten power back and been tossing all my perishables and as you might imagine, during my two days without power I couldn’t write or access my online notes or do much else.
Sitting in the darkness is not fun. Nor is eating a piece of brie cheese on a bagel with pesto sauce…no, wait. That tasted pretty darn good. I suppose this shows that I wasn’t entirely prepared for a power outage, but if it had been longer or worse, I would have managed. However, I feel very grateful my home was not damaged. It could have been—and there was a moment in the night when I wondered if I was going to have a tree fall on my place.
There are still a lot of people without power or who were hurt or even killed by the storm. Another climate-disaster in a string of them around the world. It makes me think I should take more precautions and I doubtless will after this.
Unfortunately, either way, there’s no real way for me to write like I want unless I had a huge generator capable of powering my entire house. So I have only the barest few thousand words and I don’t think I want to post that here. I want the chapter to be good, so I hope to give you a nice big one on Tuesday.
The chapter is a small thing given how much damage and destruction there’s been. I’ll get back to work since it’s the thing I can do. I just wanted to let you know what happened. If I am ever out of contact again, my assistant or someone else will hopefully alert you to why, but power outages are a good reason to assume.
Anyways, back on the 29th! I’ll be writing over the next few days…assuming another storm doesn’t come by. Or fires. Or a tornado. Or hurricane. Or a robber. Or…you know what? I’ll stop tempting fate.
—pirateaba
