HIgh Winds and High Times

The power went out last night about 10:00, and no surprise there. The wind was blowing so fiercely that Karen and I, while sitting in a parking lot at Alton Bay talking (after a rare night out to dinner), watched as a sign was ripped right off of its post. Our own "For Sale" sign had been knocked down by the time we got home, and the wind was rattling windows all night. Danny, never a fan of darkness, came into our room to sleep when the lights went out. WIlliam preferred his own bed, but panicked a bit when he couldn't locate his flashlight in the night. I woke up several times to check the time, since I wanted to make sure that Thomas didn't sleep in and end up late to work.

As it turned out, the lights came back on at around 7:00, just when Karen would have been coming home from taking Thomas to Dunkin Donuts. I fell back to sleep, but Danny woke me up with a loud, "I saved some donuts for you!" Thanks, Danny.

The rest of the day was busy. During the day I worked on my resume, updated my Web site (the professional one), and researched the companies that are going to be at a job fair I'm attending on Tuesday. I'm trying my best to leave NPC for something with more pay and more potential. I'll also be at WOKQ FM, the most popular local country station, to record a promotional spot for Forum.

After Tom finished work, we went out to give WIlliam a late birthday treat. We had originally planned to go to a local theme park named Storyland, but they are closed until Spring. So we treated Will to a movie (Open Season, which he watched with Tom and Danny while Karen and I hung out at the local bookstore), ate at McDonalds (which had Hot Wheels cars in the Happy Meals, much to the delight of both boys), shopped at Toys R Us where Will spent birthday money and both boys spent some money we found from last Christmas (having you house for sale is a sure way to lose track of just about everything), and finished the evening with some play at Chuck E. Cheese's.

Both boys are, as you can imagine, sound asleep, and I would be too, except that I had to finish a few things on the Web site before I forgot what they were.

But now it's off to bed; I've got a lot more preparation to do for Tuesday, plus all of the usual chores, including taking the trash to the dump (something you city dwellers wouldn't know anything about), and hauling, cutting, and splitting more wood.