Without Power

As I mentioned before, my friend LH is having issues with the power in Queens. Wouldn't you know it that once I started thinking about it that we started having power issues in my neighborhood.

It all started with a loud 'POP' and then everything in the house was suddenly quiet. No AC, no TV, no Fridge, no computer, no porn, no lights, did I already mention no AC? When it was clear to me that the loud noise I heard outside was related, I bucked up and started looking for something else to do.

A while back, I was mentioning that I didn't have any hobbies (outside of reading) that weren't power dependent. It was time for me to go find something else to do. Whilst searching through the scorching garage, I stumbled upon one of my box of books. It's funny that you never realize how many books you have until you move. In my case, I just left all my boxes in the garage and forgot about them (I moved to the current residence in March). So I found some books to keep me occupied while I suffered without power.

I grabbed:

• Contact by Carl Sagan
• I, Robot by Issac Asimov
• The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Danny, Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
• A comic book Ren and Stimpy, issue 6 (Spider man vs. Powdered Toast Man)
• Madonna's Nudes - A collection of sexy photographs of Madonna before she became a super Sex Rock Goddess
• Some paper towels in case Madonna and I were to get sweaty~freaky
• Beer

For the first 20 minutes, I milled over the nostalgia of the Comic book, thumbed through pics of Madonna's very untidy box, thought at length over Madonna's very untidy box, decided it was too hot to hang out in the house without AC while thinking about Madonna's box, and went swimming instead.

The outside temperature was a whopping 105 degrees and I remembered the first time I stepped outside from a very well AC'd building in Las Vegas. My lungs burned and my feet protested while cooking on the pavement beneath them. I made short work of the Joint I rolled and settled into the water. I can't exactly describe to you the kind of relief I felt gliding through that divine pool, but I will say that everything I was concerned about before (with the exception of Madonna's box of course) dissolved before my very eyes. By the time I got out of the pool, I was refreshed and didnt even notice how hot it was (at least for a little while) before I got in there.

Have I mentioned how fucking awesome it is to have a pool at your disposal? My kids are gonna so take advantage of it when I go pick them up tonight.

Anyway, have yourselves a good weekend, hopefully the power crisis wont have too much of an effect on my mine.