I can haz power!

So this morning as I was surfing the Web and eating breakfast at somewhere around ten am (shut up, its Sunday!) there was an almighty BOOM! and I felt the vibration in my house. I thought at first someone was shooting at me (not unless it was a missile (too big a boom). Then I thought maybe there had been a gas explosion somewhere... but we're mostly all on oil, not gas around here. And peeking out the door (in the cold, in my PJs) showed no smoke in any direction. Very calm (if cold at around 17 degree) morning.

Then my computer notified me it was on reserve power. My power had gone out. Oh. Must have been a transformer going in spectacular fashion.

Well, even before I called the power company there was a truck idling outside my house (I admit I was going to wait forty minutes or so before reporting it). Two hours after it went out I have power again. And the only casualty seems to be my clock radio, which won't turn off the radio part, and won't let me change the blinking time. Well, I hadn't even changed it when we "fell back" for daylight savings, so that shows how often I *use* the clock in my bedroom (not often).

So I can continue on with my (only slightly) interrupted day. I did manage to fully pack for my trip to California tomorrow, so that is all to the good.

Now to figure out my appetizer for this party I'm going to...