so the power finally came back on friday when i was at work. i didn't get back until late that night. when i did i realized that while the power was back, the cable was not--including my cable-modem internet connection. the cable didn't come back until late last night and so this morning is my first chance to use the internet all weekend. i spent much of yesterday on the phone bouncing around the cable company voice message system and fretting about all the emails that i could not read. but when i got on this morning, i discovered i had received exactly one email since i left work friday. so i guess i didn't miss much. what seemed like a really long time to be offline, in retrospect, appears to be only 2 days.
