Okay, so... I went to church, had lunch with friends, went to java & jazz and talked some more... but thats not the exciting part. I went home and began to check Macrumors... got to the main page and noticed the lights begin to flicker and then die. The main power relay for the entire neighborhood quite literally blew up. It was erie at first, all the neighbors were outside looking around and we heard all kinds of emergency sirens. Kinda like War of the Worlds or something. I walked down to see for myself and found some fire trucks surrounding a manhole in the street. The manhole was blown off and the asphalt around it was singed. As I turned to walk back I heard another explosion and turned in time to see a huge poof of smoke billow from the hole. Went home. This is where is becomes cool. No electricity... what does one do to entertain one's self? First off, I shut down my Mac. By now all the neighborhood kids were outside playing (funny and kind of sad that it takes a power outage to do that) and the adults were talking in little groups... socializing! With other human beings! 
We started a fire, covered every non-flamable surface with tea lights, and just hung out. No electronic devices. No TV. Nothing.
We talked. I grabbed some guitars and an acoustic bass and we jammed. It was AWESOME. After dark we took a walk. Turned off the cell phone, and when I took my walk I (for the first time *ever*) left my iPod at home. There were no streetlights...
walked down to a friends house, teepeed them, and invited ourselves in. Talked some more by candlelight and then went home. Had a salad for dinner. I did finally succumb to technology and watched 24 on my iPod.
Went to bed by candlelight and listened to the rain (yeah, thats sunny southern california for ya!)
I know, not too interesting, right? "ohhh, I talked and played some music ant talked some more"
It wasn't what I did. Its what I felt.
That feeling of no stress. No worries. No electronic devices to keep us busy and distract. that was the awesome part.
I know for a fact that I would've sat in front of my computer for the better part of the night stressing about monday, or something like that.
its amazing how dependent on electronics to keep us busy. For the most part, they actually cause more stress and dysfunction, In my opinion.
Soo... I suggest that at least once a month, when work is piling up, stress takes over, and you just feel bogged down by life... go outside and throw the main breaker to your house. So you have to reset a few clocks? Its well worth it.
Caio
We started a fire, covered every non-flamable surface with tea lights, and just hung out. No electronic devices. No TV. Nothing.
We talked. I grabbed some guitars and an acoustic bass and we jammed. It was AWESOME. After dark we took a walk. Turned off the cell phone, and when I took my walk I (for the first time *ever*) left my iPod at home. There were no streetlights...
walked down to a friends house, teepeed them, and invited ourselves in. Talked some more by candlelight and then went home. Had a salad for dinner. I did finally succumb to technology and watched 24 on my iPod.
Went to bed by candlelight and listened to the rain (yeah, thats sunny southern california for ya!)
I know, not too interesting, right? "ohhh, I talked and played some music ant talked some more"
It wasn't what I did. Its what I felt.
That feeling of no stress. No worries. No electronic devices to keep us busy and distract. that was the awesome part.
I know for a fact that I would've sat in front of my computer for the better part of the night stressing about monday, or something like that.
its amazing how dependent on electronics to keep us busy. For the most part, they actually cause more stress and dysfunction, In my opinion.
Soo... I suggest that at least once a month, when work is piling up, stress takes over, and you just feel bogged down by life... go outside and throw the main breaker to your house. So you have to reset a few clocks? Its well worth it.
Caio
