That's a lot, Kat.

It's cooling down a bit outside, which is good for all my poor neighbors. I saw the elderly lady across the street sitting out on her porch, so took over a thermos with water and ice and and order to her and the lady next door (whose name I shockingly don't know!) that if they need anything, to let me know.

I am going to call Stephanie's dog sitter, dog shitter.

Good one.

Poor cats! Be more healthy.

I made it to the wedding in plenty of time, and had a good enough time. It was hot as shit in there, so luckily it was a family friend and I just left with my parents. And got compliments on my dress from two stranger ladies on the way home!

Nice!

Wow, just saw the numbers on the outages. BGE serves about 1.2 million customers. 418K lost power. That's a fucking THIRD.

Making more ice in my meager 3 trays to give to people. Erik was pathetically grateful when I asked him if he would prefer one of the ginger ales that had been in the fridge. But I remember being there. Smallest things in the face of no power go a long way.

Now just to hope that tonight's storms don't take me out. A little nervous about that given the flicker last night, though that was probably the rest of the grid around me blowing.

Turns out the weather phenomenon we had has a name: derecho.

I am incredibly grateful that I haven't been in a blackout in superhot weather.

I am incredibly grateful that I haven't been in a blackout in superhot weather.

Me, too! Of course, if we got a blackout here it wouldn't make much difference since hardly anyone has A/C.

I spent the morning with my folks, and then went to the gym, so I didn't eat lunch, and finally got home at around 4, and I was starving and I took a shower and ate and then flopped and totally forgot to go to the dry-cleaners and pick up my clothes. And they're only open 8-6 on weekdays, so I will have to leave work early tomorrow to get my clothes. I hate that!

And now it's nearly 7 and I'm not eating dinner yet since I had lunch at 4. And there are people screaming outside. Sigh.

And I'm watching more of The Unusuals, which is really entertaining. It's fun to see Amber Tamblyn play a cop. With Jeremy Renner, no less.

I just did something completely stupid. I just baked a pan of brownies and I'm the only one home tonight.

I think I took hermiting to a new high/low today. The couple of times other people were home today, I was in my room either asleep or pretending to be asleep.

We're trying to get through The Unusuals too, before they go away. H finds them surprisingly fun--and he hates tv.

We've been very comfortable today. I'm even wearing long sleeves. I shan't rub our cool temps in, though. I can't imagine suffering through the heat some of you are enduring, much less without AC!

One of Erik's friends has an empty rental with power a couple blocks away that is dog-friendly, so he's decamping to there for the night. His wife and kids are out on the Eastern Shore with her parents and they are gonna stay there until the power is back. All good.

I decided to use stuff up in the fridge and wound up making some seriously delicious orange-ginger ice cream. (1 pint heavy cream, about half a jar of marmalade, 2 oz ginger syrup, some corn syrup, some sugar, enough milk to bring the whole thing to 4 cups. If if tastes half as good tomorrow as it did right out of the ice cream maker, I may not share any with my kids.)

Oh, that sounds super awesome. I think I have everything at home to make that except the ginger syrup. I feel that I need ginger syrup in my life.