Saturday, June 29, 2013

Gas stove, a tropical storm and real books

  • We have a power outage practically all day (9am to 5pm. Come lunchtime, mama resorts to heating up leftover food on our gas stove. We wonder how we ever got along without a microwave oven years ago.
  • Despite the power outage, it's fortunately not too hot, thanks to rain showers in the afternoon. The rain showers eventually turn into a downpour and then it seems there is a typhoon by late evening!
  • Because of the power outage and also because my cellphone was also low on battery power, I have time to read some books the old-fashioned way, i.e. by reading physical books rather than ebooks: the AbbĂ© Trochu's wonderfully biography of the great St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney.