Pace on Earth

Lights

Last Friday we had a wicked windstorm in Freddy and it uprooted the big tent we had pitched in the parking lot of the rugby club. The tent reared up and clipped the power line coming in to the clubhouse. Since the club is not seen as a high priority place compared to residential outages we have still not got the power back on at the clubhouse. This has meant that we have had to rely on good old fashioned ice to keep the beer cold. It was quite a scene last night when we had our Old Boys night to see them drinking ice cold beer by candlelight. A few of them may have played rugby before electric light but not at the clubhouse so it wasn't quite re-enacting the good old days. We hope to have power back on at the tonight...we shall see.

On Wednesday night Will's band (the Tallest Band on Earth) played a starter set for Dub Antennae at the Taproom's reggae night. They were really good and I was really happy to get some of the boys out to see Will doing his thing (which they are getting very good at, I might add). After his show, and during Dub Antennae second set the power went out. The place was full of backup lights so there although there may have been some brief fondling there was no time to get busy in the darkened bar. As we went outside we found out that the power was out throughout the downtown. It was all very eerie...and equally cool. When I was a kid I used to love power outages because it was so cool to go searching for the candles and matches and then find something to do in the dark. For some reason I only remember blackouts in the summer, which is a good thing because a blackout in the winter would be a big big deal in this part of the world. Nowadays I still enjoy a good blackout and especially one that takes place that late in the evening because I can stroll into work late and use the excuse that the power went out and my alarm therefore did not go off.

Have a good weekend yo...

Pace out.

Labels: Blackout

posted by Vitamin S @ 5:17 p.m.