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September 2008 »

This is John Galt Speaking

It’s as good a time as any to talk Atlas Shrugged, eh?
The short of it is that I loved the book. I was completely and totally hooked at the introduction of Dagny Taggart and could barely bring myself to put it down, reading by flashlight well into the night during our extended post-hurricane power [...]

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It's Electric!

Judging by the time blinking on my yet-to-be-reset alarm clock, our power came back on at 7:30pm this evening, bringing our total time without power to 7 days and 16 hours.

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Waiting for Ike

We’re all set here and just waiting for the storm. I’ll probably be online for a few more hours before turning off the computer and unplugging.
As I said before, we’re far enough inland that we’ll escape the storm surge (i.e., we are nowhere near the massive flooding you see on CNN right now). [...]

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