On CBC Radio One, I heard some
very interesting advice from a blind man to those who are "light-dependent"
in Ontario (say my family in Toronto) who need to make it through the night
without electricity (and therefore light):

• keep doors open -- not half-open
• follow a wall with your hands
• clear your floor of obstacles
• grab the things you need for the evening to have close to you
• if you drop something on the floor, don't bend over to grab it. crouch carefully
  and use one hand to sweep the floor for the itme
• don't stick your hand out suddenly -- you might end up banging your fingers
  into an item; curl your hands before slowly lifting your hands

In forwarding my blog entry from several days ago about the Web and the church to fellow church members, I wrote a sentence that began with the words "I blogged". When asked what I meant, I realized how I was using a vocabulary that is very foreign to most people. It's interesting how being immersed in blogging has made me think that everyone is doing it!

At any rate, in search of a way to explain blogging, I turned to the handy whatis site to come up with a reasonably good definition of weblogs.

When I found out about the big power outage that has hit Toronto, New York, and a good number of other cities in the north-east, I immediately tried to reach my family in Toronto. I got through -- suprisingly -- and found out that they were sitting in the dark (both figuratively and literally). Kris, my brother-in-law, told me that they didn't know what was going on other than the fact the power was out. I read him a big chunk of the New York Times article about what is happening. I was glad that people seemed calm -- maybe calmer than I am! As I walked over to Evans Hall, I left messages for a friend in Washington, D.C. wondering about her. Later I realized that D.C. wasn't hit by power outages -- my geographic sense of that region is a bit shaky. At any rate, I hope that she appreciates the thought if not the substance of the concern.