After I moved to Cahl-ee-FOR-nya in '94, I didn't manage to make it back to OlyWA for Christmas until '96 or '97, I forget. I stayed with my parents and that was the year we had one of the worst ice storms in years. Power was out for folks out in the sticks for days. It was one of the best times I'd spent with my folks. There was no TV to distract and we had the fireplace going and candles and lanterns for light.

We played pictionary and cards by lamplight. A good time.

My one and only year at WSU (Washington, not Wisconsin) the weekend before finals week, most of campus had a power outage. I was living in Rogers Hall, a 12 story dormitory. The place was a zoo, normally, and with the power out, it was eerily quiet. The stairway was pitch black til someone lit a match. I'd been stumbling blind and when that match came on, I was running up the stairs. I got to the seventh floor where some of my friends lived. One guy was an outstanding guitar player and singer. He started up and people were drawn to the sound from all over. My best night in that dorm, kind of a weird place in many ways.

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