Merry Christmas all.
At the moment we are living in Gretchen and Joe’s basement down in West Lafayette. We were planning a pre-Christmas trip down here but the night before we left an ice storm hit mid-Michigan. We lost power sometime around 4:00 Sunday morning. Plan was to leave Sunday afternoon and come back Tuesday. So we grabbed some clothes and headed down here anyway, expecting power to be back up in a day. Consider that a major miscalculation. Right up there with the Maginot Line and cold fusion. The storm was worse than we thought. Initially there were ~300,000 in mid-Michigan without power. Our little area of Okemos isn’t expected to get power back until Saturday night. I don’t think Okemos is having food riots just yet but they can’t be far away.
We are warm, comfortable, and being fed. Something a large portion of the world would love for a Christmas present, so we best not bitch too much.

Molly and Fido doing Christmas morning.