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  Thursday  November 16  2006    02: 15 AM

lights out

Tuesday afternoon my second Epson V700 scanner arrrived. The lamp is still working so this one looks to be a keeper. I was up until 3 in the morning trying out the film holders and different software when all the lights went out. It had been pretty windy. There are a lot of trees on the Island and sometimes they fall down on power lines. The lights came on about 8:30 in the morning. I made my coffee and checked to see if the world had come to an end when the lights went out again. They were out all day. This evening I heard that a tree had fallen on a substation north of Oak Harbor and it would be 2 to 3 days before the power would return. I called the power company to find out that there were 100,000 others in the dark. I was getting ready to go to bed at 8:30 (it's surprising how tired you get when it's dark outside and inside) when the lights came back on. Most of the day without a computer. How barbaric.