Wayne and Erika Pfeiler

We had planned to go to a free concert downtown tonight, but a thunderstorm blew in and cancelled that. While we were shutting the windows and planning what to do for dinner, the power started blinking on and off. After a minute of that it went dark and stayed dark.
So then I realized another benefit of laptop computers. When the power goes out, we can still watch about 2 hours or a dvd or something. So I called up my Sifl & Olly playlist and we watched 5 or 6 episodes before the laptop's batteries ran down. Dinner plans got modified to accomodate for the lack of power too.
Then Annie needed a walk, and while were were out, we saw about half the neighborhood had power. Unfortunately, we were in the unlucky half. But then, suddenly the Progress Energy guys got something right, and everything lit back up just a little before 8:30.