Things happen in 3's

There is the old saw that things tend to happen in 3's, and it would appear that the past few days would testify to the validity of that observation. Saturday's fiasco of a football game was followed up by a fairly nasty wind storm on Sunday that knocked out our power for about 5 hours or so. Considering there are half-million or so around the state that are still without power, we were, relatively speaking, lucky. The only real dilemma occurred with dinner--since we didn't have power we couldn't cook anything, I ventured forth to find some fast food or something only to discover that everyone else, including the myriad of restaurants around us, didn't have power either. Thus, I drove back empty handed, but not before being flipped off for treating an out stoplight like a four-way stop. Eventually we were able to cobble together a meal that was surprisingly filling. For the most part the kids held up pretty well, with only Abby getting a bit scared at bed time. Fortunately we got our power back at 9:30 last night. Except for a couple downed limbs on a tree we escaped without any real damage. On the upside Abby had her first calamity day since her school didn't have power this morning, of course that may come back to haunt her later.

To round things out this morning Sam woke up with a pretty bad fever (>100) and couldn't keep anything down. According to the Doctor it appears to be just a virus and likely to clear up by Wednesday. Of course this wasn't his normal doctor and this particular doctor graduated from That School Up North, but nonetheless he appeared competent. Regardless Sam is about as pathetic as can be right now.

Hopefully Karma will eventually balance things out.