When I Recite the Wonders of Vermont

... remind me to tell you how much fun it is to have your power off for more than 52 hours in much less than four weeks.

I made coffee on the barbecue grill this morning while it was snowing hard then spilled it down my front as I slipped on ice going back into the house. The last outage took my laptop with it: dead dead dead and trust me, if somebody can make hardware work, it's me.

Maybe civilization isn't so overrated after all.