There was a time when I loved tinkering with HTML and CSS. Well, "loved" may be overstating things... I liked getting pages to look just so... which had me resorting to Notepad as well. All those WYSIWYG editors... man, I just shudder to think about all the junk extra code they'd leave around. Anyway, I just don't have the time or patience anymore to be as particular as I once was about how my web pages look. Therefore, you are looking at one of the standard Blogger templates, 100% unaltered. And I'm okay with that.

So... how 'bout this weather? Early yesterday morning I broke down and purchased two window AC units at Home Depot. I got a 5000 BTU for $79 and a 6500 BTU for $99. The former is in the bedroom, and the latter is trying its best on our living/dining room area--it's a bit big for it. But it's definitely better than nothing. Anyway... so we spend the day wondering how we'd gone without for so long, and settled in for a comfortable night's sleep... then at around 2AM I woke up, realizing that a) it was a little too quiet, and b) it was stuffy in our room. The power had gone out on the whole block. Great. No fans, no nuthin'. I reported the outage to the electric company, then tried to get back to sleep--I think I was successful.

Then this morning Michelle gets up for work, and we look at her clock, which is still blank. No power. I go back to sleep. Then later Michelle comes back in and says she just realized that the bathroom light is working, after having been using it for a while. I guess our power came back on, but there were a couple of fuses that were tripped (namely those containing the AC units), so I flipped 'em back, and we're back in business! Today was forecast to be the hottest day of the year so far, so... I was happy.

Everyone else surviving okay?