Outages

We have lived in places, like Caracas, where power outages were common.  You just learned to semi-expect that the lights would all go out for half an hour or more, and you tried to remember where the candles were.  When we lived in Korea, the pipes would freeze, and so there would be no water until the trucks came and parked on the street corner and you filled up a couple of buckets.  But we are now enduring the worst outage ever.

According to the incontestably-reliable Armed Forces Television Network, which has counseled us innumerable times on how to balance our checkbooks, not drive drunk on the autobahn and the inconceivability of male soldiers sexually harassing female ones, for the next two weeks we will be plagued by ...  "sun outages."  This cannot be good.  It would be far less disruptive if it were only something like "television signal outages due to sun flares," but no, the ad is quite clear - we are faced with wholesale outages of the sun.  I have a few sweaters, but it sounds like the next few days are going to be cold and dark.