8:32pm, Saturday

It's black outside.

They say at least 3 millon people on the Texas Coast are without power.

I can't vouch for 3 million, but I can for the folks around here...it is pitch black...
cept for us...
we have a generator.

We also have houses that are still standing and minds and bodies a little tired, but blessed nonetheless.

I had Tony get this computer hooked up to the generator and so I sit here in this unearthly glow answering email and posting so that I can say thank you to all the folks that commented.

To be sure, I was really surprised.
Sage...thanks guy. You were kind to post about it.
I would like to think all the good wishes on and off blog were the stuff that gave us such a good outcome...in spite of the ragged lead gutted night.

I have lots of stories to tell and I will tomorrow...the generator needs rest..lol...

but one thing I will say now...
and that is that it occurred to me as I was working and doing all the things you do when you have kids and move through the day,
how lucky we are to be able to flip a switch,
run a bath, wash out a kids booboo,
eat a hot meal,
not worry about bad guys taking from us
and just know what time and day of the week it is
because your mind isn't ovvupied with just surviving something or the other ...

It's trite to say this sort of thing makes you think
because really saying that suggests maybe you don't enough.

I work a lot of mil support for Marines...and everytime someone in the neighborhood complained about the heat or having to do an ordinary thing in an extraordinary way I thought of those jarheads and what they do day in and day out.

I made some mental notes and again...I'll save them for tomorrow.

Goodnight.