Dear So and So

[lph]

I had a really hard time taking the instructor seriously, because she'd say things like "Imagine your breath as a luminous crystal mist."

(At least she said "Imagine". We have a yoga instructor at work, a friendly, laidback, nice guy, on the verge of saying stuff like that all the time, but obviously trying to rephrase it to make it palatable to a bunch of obsessively hardnosed bureaucrats. I only heard him slip once, when he told us to "Breathe! Through your spine... well, you can't actually do that of course, but think about it!" )

Dear houseguest that was and to be,
I truly am sorry if you now feel upset or unwelcome. But in my books staying a week is a long time. You just did, and doing it again a month later is a big thing to ask. But I guess I could have been more polite.

[Crankin]

Dear Concord Power and Light,

Thank you! Even though I don't particularly love some things about my town, I appreciate the small town efficiency of a local municipal utility company, because my friends in the next town are still without power and dealing with a monolithic power company.

[Biciclista]

To whom it may concern

!! !!! !!! !! !! !!!!
now THAT's weather!!!!

[shootingstar]

Hope it gets better next wk. (which is expecting alot for the Seattle area). Dearie and I will be there for 2 days.

[Biciclista]

Are you serious? I wasn't talking about OUR weather!! I was talking about SANDY

[marni]

dear crankin

guess who didn't have Concord Power and Light some years ago when the notorious "april Fools ice storm hit." Fortunately Philips coffee,where I worked, and the elementary school do in the center of town had electricity so during the day the kids and I were warm and could get a hot meal of sorts. In the evenings candles and our fireplace did stalwart duty for 10 days as we slept around it at night. Fortunately it was not mid winter and bitter cold or I don't know what we would have done.

marni resident of Acton from 1990-2001

[SheFly]

Dear Marni - I remember that storm all too well! We had no power for less time here in Bedford - only 3 days, but it seemed like an eternity. Now we have a generator, just in case. Very grateful we didn't have to use it this week.

SheFly

[Crankin]

Hi Marni,
If I was more technologically competent, I would scan and post the picture I have of DS #2 building a huge snowman in the April Fools's storm. He was about 13, right before he started cycling . I was lucky then, too. We lived in Boxborough, which also has a small local utility (Littleton Electric). We never lost power.
BTW, Phillips has yet again been sold. But, I got the scoop when I was getting my hair done at Moodz. It was bought at the height of the recession by a young couple, but I guess they got divorced and although they tried running it together after the divorce, it didn't work out, although they were successful, business wise. An older (i.e. our age) man owns it now. Plan to stop by next week, as I have a client in Littleton, and it's on the way.
And also BTW, my son, Josh, does remember working with you, although he told me he was always coming in when you were going home. That job taught him a lot. He makes a mean espresso. Oy, he's a "big macher" (Yiddish) now; he just got a new job where he'll be opening the Boston office of a language translation company based out of SF. I am pretty sure he learned a lot of those people skills at the coffee shop.

[marni]

the thig that was so frustrating about that 10 day interval was that the street behind us, school street had electricity and so did route 2 and the auto action on the other side. For some reason we were lost in balck hole because the power grid map didn't show our local transformer as being off line. I'm sll for campingout and roughing it in controlled conditions but that was the pits. How bad was it? The first thingmy husband told the realtor we absolutely had to have in our house in Houston was a fireplace!

even in mid winter, the most I wear is socks and a light sweatshirt.

la how times have changed.

sounds like your son is doing well. Good news that. Nice to think that Philips was a good influence on him.

[azfiddle]

Dear self-
What in the world were you thinking? Putting your phone on top of a counter in a small bathroom? Next to ... yup.... the toilet. Now you have an expensive paperweight. And a lot of missing phone numbers. And stuff like that. And it was handy that the DH had a spare phone but it's just not the same....