so there I was, alone in the house, my mom had taken the girls out for a couple of hours for the local Apple Blossom Fair, and I was going to write.  I turned on the pc, went out for a quick smoke, and then went to the bathroom.  Which is when I noticed that the lights wouldn't turn on.  

Weird, I thought, that they'd  both burned out at the same time. 

Then I went into the kitchen, and came to the realization that the power was out.  No pc.  No writing (handwriting is slow and I hate transcribing to the pc later).