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[jackshoegazer]

Yesterday's thunderstorm knocked out our electricity at about 6pm and it didn't come back on until a little after 1am.  My God, what did we all do before electricity.  No movies, no internet, no LIGHT.  As the evening wore on, Jacquelyn and I found ourselves moving toward the west end of the apartment, following the setting sun. I have a whole new respect for people in ye olde dayes who read by candlelight because that shit is hard.   I must have fallen asleep pretty early because I woke up at 9:30pm and officially went to bed.

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My grandparents told me a story about an ice storm they went through where they didn't have electricity for a few weeks. They told me stories of wood fires and metling ice for water. I suppose if I remembered that in the long view, this whole electricity thing is pretty new-fangled and I'm pretty lucky.

When I was a kid we did "rendesvous" or primitive camping where everything was pre-1840. The clothes, technoiogy, etc.. everything had to be before 1840. It was pretty awesome. We lived in tents and teepees, wore breeches, fired muskets and threw tomohawks and knives, cut firewood, carved wood, told stories by campfire. I kind of miss that. I wonder how many people do that now but LJ about it :P