Power Outages and The Easily Amused:

Ok, so I didn’t write anything about last night and I have been falling behind on my blogs, so I guess that I’ll just type about some stuff that happened yesterday. If you don’t live within the boundaries of PA or don’t watch the news, you may not have heard about the weather that we just got hit with.

Yesterday seemed like a normal summer’s day. It was bright, sunny, and warm. Because Sunday night’s plans didn’t work out (those plans being going to Weaver’s Ice Cream shop), we planned on doing the Weaver’s thing Monday night. So the basic plan was this: meet at Weaver’s at 8 pm, have ice cream and such, then go out to Kim’s for some soccer and a bonfire.

However, plans changed at about 5. I went out to my van after checking out and it started to rain....hard....Now that would have been fine, but the wind was just insane! The van was rocking... So I decided that I was just going to go back into the building for a while.

I was stranded until about 6ish and proceeded, with the plan. I ended up at Weaver’s at around 7:50 only to discover that power was out from Watsontown to Allenwood. So I waited until everyone else showed up... I knew that Dan, Anna, and Kim, but Josh showed up as well, yet Kim didn’t. So that was cool.

However, we were left with a dilemma: what were we going to do now? We had come up with the thought of going to Dunkin Donuts, yet I had the crazy idea of going to Rita’s Italian Ice. Everyone was down with that. So Dan ran Anna home to leave her vech. there and meeting us at Rita’s while Josh and I went to Lewisburg to get gas and meet them at Rita’s. However, once we arrived at Rita’s, and realized a sick irony.... Rita’s power was out as well.

Our path led us back to Dunkin Donuts. Wow. I haven’t laughed that hard in a while. Our banter and discussion went from India’s McDonald’s CurryMcChicken to G.I. Joe the International Hero (with the package still baring the red, white, and blue stripes...France maybe?). “Trained in the dojo of deliberation with the karate chop of negotiation and antiwar - pea soup blend.”

So needless to say, our discussion was hilarious. However, what I came home to wasn’t. Our power was out... 3 hours AFTER the storm hit. Didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. Oh well, I guess in this situation that you just have to play the cards you’re dealt and don’t let the guy across the table know you have a crappy hand.