Homo Sum:
humani nil a me alienum puto

..and here, ladies and gentlemen, you see the sky over Sayre’s “lightning farm” as Orannis the Destroyer is freed from his bindings.
OK, maybe not, although that’s pretty much exactly how I pictured that in my head.
What you’re actually looking at there is the sky over the Chaiten Volcano in Chile. No photoshoppery, the image is [...]

We did in fact lose power at around 3AM (or 2AM, depending when I was supposed to set my clock back, I guess.)
It was still off when I woke up, which made packing for Boston a pain in the ass. The power company was claiming that it would be back by 6PM on Monday, and [...]

Well, we did the whole checklist of simple preparations today, so hopefully the Umbrella Theory will kick in and the storm won’t cause any serious effects. Although I will honestly be severely shocked if we don’t lose power–even though the storm appears to have shifted slightly westward, meaning we might only get 100km/h winds (what [...]

I have been in a very black mood since midday Friday, and this is the last thing I need:

Since Nova Scotia Power is so incompetent1 this will probably mean that I lose power at some point tomorrow and for some time afterwards.
Since I’m supposed to be off to Boston on Sunday, this is especially annoying.
The [...]