Power outages, cafeteria cheer and a resurrection

• We have several power outages in campus which isn't good because there are faculty meetings lined up all over campus today, notwithstanding all the classes that will get disrupted.
• The lady ahead of me at the queue at the COOP cafeteria turns out to be quite a cheery character: she brings her own food container with partitions instead of having her food placed into plastic bags to go or for take-out and she jokes constantly with her companions despite the sweltering heat (there was power outage then) in the cafeteria.
• I dig out my linear model textbooks (by Graybill and by Searle) from the 'archives'. I never dreamed I'd have to do that again when I shifted to computer science years ago.