225 - Rolling Blackouts

Our power went off for several hours night before last. Discovered this when I woke up to use the bathroom. We’re so used to small devices with faintly glowing LED’s that when they go dark it can create a bit of an obstacle course to find the bathroom in the dark (and I was surprised by how dark it was). Then when the power comes back on every light in the room turns on, making sure you know because you have to get up to turn them all back off.

The power going off for any length of time here is rare.

It went off again last night, for about an hour, right before I wrote this down, which I did while the power was off.

So are we now truly turning into a third world country with rolling blackouts or have we arrived? I have difficulty accepting that, but sheesh!

This is probably the most traditionally diatonic music I’ve composed in some time. In fact, you could imagine two sharps instead of three flats and remove the flat symbol from every chord and play it in D major if you were of a mind to (don’t neglect to make it a C# dim in bar 11).

Update: Good Lord - it just went off AGAIN this afternoon - only for a few minutes, but who knows how long it’ll remain on this time? I’m not going to reset any clocks until at least 24 uninterrupted hours have passed.