Softly as if I played piano in the dark

Most of you reading this, won't catch that reference or even the reference that alludes to it that's more recent.

Anyway, I fell asleep on the couch last night. I was dreaming about something, when an external event made it's way into my dream and I awoke thinking that the world had ended. Very sick feeling.

Seems that an idiot trying to race to a closing entrance gate lost control of his car and took out a light pole and a pole with a transformer on it. This resulted in two very loud explosions. The first made my mind incorporate it into my dream and made me wake up disoriented in the dark. Then the power surged on again and the second knocked out our building and everything on the block.

I went on the balcony and watched amused as drivers couldn't fathom the idea that an electric exit gate wouldn't open to let them out of the property when the power was out. These people would actually WAIT at the gate for it to open. Finally I put on some shoes and went downstairs to see what had really happened. The fire department came and opened the emergency gates so the people waiting could leave.

I did run into two guys who explained what had happened. One of them was standing on his balcony talking on the phone. Of course, it was none of my business to ask who he was on the phone with at 4:00am, so I didn't. After a minute or two of conversation, one of them left and the other talked about waking up early to go make groceries. So I asked him when he left New Oelans, and he was shocked that I knew that. After I explained how, we laughed about it. He was a cool cat.

We chatted for a few minutes about NOLA and such, then decided that the show was mostly over. I went inside, now awake, with nothing to do. No TV, no Xbox, no DVD, so I played some New Super Mario and surfed the internet on my Treo until I got sleepy again. Waking up at 9:30am, I found that there was still no power. 20 minutes later it was on and now my task is to see if all of my food spoiled or just some of it.