Did anyone else wake up this morning, open their eyes to see a dormant television, remember waking up two years ago today, and hope that, this time, there would be absolutely nothing on?

me too.

Wait, let me rephrase that: that this time, there would be the normal everyday stuff on that I never watch.

The blackout-ish specter of "absolutely nothing" was the impulse that made me stop by the ATM yesterday evening, just in case I wouldn't have the chance and/or credit cards were to not work for a few days, for some electricity- or other random infrastructure-related reason. My paranoia did not extend so far as to replenish my car trunk with fresh emergency supplies, though the old stuff is still there and probably still edible.

but it seems I still have time to do that. so far, so good.

copyright 2003 carrie lynn king.