Survival, Day 4

Non-office day today.

[Hardboiled eggs camping style] [1] [2] Earlier Wlofie asked if I liked eggs and could we do something with the dozen and a half we had socked away in the [DELETED-freezer-DELETED] temporary ice chest. I'm not a big egg fan but I do like the occastional omlette or sunny-side up, but not 18 eggs worth of omlette or sunny-side up.

So I suggested Deviled Eggs. Hard boil, cut lengthwise, scoop out the now cooked yoke, mix with mayonnaise and dill, scoop the mixture back into the cut eggs, dust with paprika, eat. It's the only form of egg that I can just keep on eating and with our crew, it didn't last the night.

[Pokémon—Gotta catch 'em all—to waste all battery power in the house] [3] [4] The kids are going through batteries like you wouldn't believe, what with their various variations on the Game Boy and what not. I found one of their units in the mailbox—apparently they were too lazy to actually take the thing inside while they rode their bicycles.

[Burning the midnight oil] [5] [6] I'm still working on co-routines to keep myself occupied [7], keeping the midnight oil burning (in this case, literally—kerosene lamp right on my deskd) as I work through an implementation. It's an interesting concept, a routine that is almost, but not entirely like, a thread but where multiple calls result in the co-routine picking up where it left off and not starting over again. Once we get power back I'll write up a longer entry explaining what I've been working on (since my notes are on my desk at home, and right now I'm at work writing up the past few days).

On Monday night, after Hurricane Wilma blew past, the sky was clear and for the first time since I can remember, the night sky was ablaze with stars, and even the faint Milky Way could be seen stretching across the sky. It was a beautiful sight and one that was repeated Tuesday night. But since Wednesday, the stars are slowly being washed out with the dawn of civilization as power is slowly restored to South Florida.

[Dawn of Civilization] [8] [9]

[1] /boston/2005/10/28/thumbs.p1010002.jpg

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[3] /boston/2005/10/28/thumbs.p1010003.jpg

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[5] /boston/2005/10/28/thumbs.p1010007.jpg

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[7] /boston/2005/10/26.1

[8] /boston/2005/10/28/thumbs.p1010012.jpg

[9] /boston/2005/10/28/p1010012.jpg

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