So as Mr Rich said, I was forced to return to my ren-faire roots yesterday. At about 4:30 yesterday afternoon the wind took out the power to a large part of my neighborhood, and it turned out, many other parts of the DC area. This morning at sometime around O-Dark thirty the power came on, but the lovely cable monopoly hadn’t yet caught up with the power people and we just got internet back about an hour before I got home from work. Huzzah!

As far as geeky pursuits with no power cord went, I curled up on the sofa next to a warm fire and plowed through a couple of books. My family *gasp* talked! Being a bit on the intellectually geeky side we ended up discussing Zorn’s Lemma and the Axiom of Choice, and telling really dorky grad school jokes. Wrap that up with some Christmas cookies, sock knitting, and some Christmas Carol read out loud, and I’d call it rather a success, doncha think?

Well, I’m not going to write up the entirety of the post I had planned for today, maybe I’ll polish it up really good for next week, if I remember. I will however say that this is the time of year that charities make their really hard sell and that there are, out there in the world, loads of geeky charities to choose from. The big one that everyone thinks of is of course, Child’s Play, and I heartily encourage you to consider them if you have a few extra ducats after the holiday sales have done with you. Not only does it help sick kids, but it helps to ensure that the kids of today are the geeks of tomorrow!

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