I was all set for posting yesterday after dropping Bdo off in Oakland where she was visiting friends before heading back to the Holy Land. Well, PG&E our infamous power company had other ideas. At 7:05pm just as Bwo settled down to watch some of the third "Queer Eye" season, the power went out.
Now let me remind you, yesterday was the hottest day of the year so far (today is going to be hotter apparently). When the house went dark it was a toasty 104°F outside and according to the PG&E website the power would only come on again around 10:15pm. We have been warned that due to the threat of fires (and based on the bad experience of the Paradise fire last year) PG&E may cut off our power whenever they please, but it seems this was some sort of unplanned event. Bwo, Rox and I hid in the relative cool of the bedroom downstairs for a while and eventually fell asleep. The power came back at 11:45pm with all the usual beeping, whirring and bright lights. It had cooled off considerably by then although it never seems to have the time to get really chilly when we have a string of one hundred plus days.
It always strikes me as amazing how close we live to catastrophe. Civilization balances precariously on the edge of societal breakdown and all it would take would be a few days without power. We take so much for granted. I wonder how long it would take without power for us to not get water in our pipes or food in the stores. When the zombie apocalypse comes at least we will have a lot of toothpaste (saving that for another day) and wool to keep us warm.
So it's summer here and my woodshop gets very, very warm and so I have been confined to working a few hours in the early mornings on the weekends. I have been making very slow progress on the current guitar (GS2). I did the owl inlay and progressed some on shaping the neck this weekend, but it's already too hot for me and it's only 9am.
GS2 is California walnut back and sides and a curly maple fretboard with a walnut and maple laminated neck. Spruce top, of course.
It always strikes me as amazing how close we live to catastrophe. Civilization balances precariously on the edge of societal breakdown and all it would take would be a few days without power. We take so much for granted. I wonder how long it would take without power for us to not get water in our pipes or food in the stores. When the zombie apocalypse comes at least we will have a lot of toothpaste (saving that for another day) and wool to keep us warm.
So it's summer here and my woodshop gets very, very warm and so I have been confined to working a few hours in the early mornings on the weekends. I have been making very slow progress on the current guitar (GS2). I did the owl inlay and progressed some on shaping the neck this weekend, but it's already too hot for me and it's only 9am.
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