Odds and Ends

It's been awhile since I've written.  Things have gotten in the way, so it's an easy excuse.  Shakespeare club took a lot of my time and we're gearing up for all sorts of end of the year activities at school - yeah, our school year ends on May 29th, so we need to start preparing for those things now.  Oy.

Even my photography has taken a back burner.  I've been able to get out a couple of times, but not on a daily basis.  I knew this would happen, but I didn't think there'd be an entire week where I wouldn't pick my camera up at all.

I've been on Spring Break now for 5 days and this is the first day where I can honestly say, I don't have anything to do right now, so I can either go out and take some shots, or write a short blog.  Blog won out this time and I suspect that I'll be outside taking photos as soon as this gets posted.

And now that brings me to the reason why I took this photo.  Have you ever had one of those days where your brain just doesn't process information very well?  I've had quite a few of those days, but most recently last night.  We had a power failure last night - my wife was not amused as she was in the middle of grading papers.  The power failure caused my brain to think weirdly, which I'm sure most of you might have done something similar.

So here I am, sitting in the dark because my computer screen has just gone blank, and it's really dark in here.  My initial thoughts are, "I need to get the candles out."  So I get up and then my immediate reaction is to walk over to the light switch to turn the light on.  Yeah, talk about an incongruent moment.  I think some or our basic stuff we take for granted are so ingrained into our psyche, that we don't really think about them even when they aren't available to us.

I knew the lights weren't going to work, yet I went over to turn the lights on anyway.  So, I got the candles, lit them up and my wife decided that she'd rather wash the dishes by candlelight as opposed to grading papers.  I think the lights were out for a grand total of five minutes or so, so it really wasn't a major in convenience at all.  We lost power for two days once due to a windstorm.  That was inconvenient as well, but I'm sure there are other places that have a lot worse, so I'll not complain.

And so dear reader, if you choose to comment below, tell me a story where your brain went haywire like mine did last night.  I'd love to hear your stories.