Today is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life

Huge storm last night blew down a tree in the backyard and created much havoc across the city, knocking out power on Whyte avenue and to some neighborhoods by the University (i.e. mine). With no power for more than eight hours and no battery powered alarm clock or functioning cell-phone (my died on the way home from work and the power went out when I was heading upstairs to charge it); I ended up having to sleep with my son's Donkey clock and waking myself up every so often to check the time. The storm also stranded one of the LRT trains on the bridge where it remained for over 16 hours causing system-wide delays and assisting in the general conspiracy to make me late for work. Started the morning trying to read a nautical novel by Dewey Lambdin but wasn't able to get into it at this time. It did seem to have some refreshingly new elements, the main character having a nit of the same predelictions as Flashman which should lead to an amusing and entertaining series of nautical adventures but I'm just not in the mood right now. Have a pile of books with my reading in various stages of completion, most of them being single author short story collections.