Sleep Spent

No sooner had I put up an entry about traveling to Italy then I go to Google News and see that Italy’s power grid collapsed last night.

What is it with everyone and power these days? Italy is the third major instance of lost power in three months that I can think of. (The others being the US and Canada and London.)

The Guardian has a left-leaning look at the recent phenomenon which mentions outages I didn’t even know about.

I hope the terrorists don’t get any ideas. If this system is so fragile that it’s breaking all the time on its own, I don’t even want to think about what could happen if it was helped along.

I will be leaving for Rome on Thursday. I still have a few things to do, like get a backpack. It’s been getting colder here, too; perhaps I’ll pick up a beanie. I’ve tried beanies before, and it’s actually pretty tough to find one that looks good on me.

I have put up more pictures on the Pictures page. Westminster Abbey, my day at the Tate Modern museum and the neighborhood I’m living in here in London are all documented. Take a look.

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I have arrived, and I had enough time to set up MT for a little blog action.

I know I’m generally terrible about reading other people’s blogs, so I’m not expecting much. But this is as much for me as for all of you. I want somethinig to remember my current trip by!

If you’re interested in just what’s going on right now, you’ll want to head on over to the photos page.

It’s getting late; tomorrow I’ll update and tell you all about the production of The Taming of the Shrew that I saw tonight at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater. (Suffice it to say, it was fantastic!)

Peace, love and all that jazz.