Last night my parents and I were watching a movie when the power went out. Not completely surprising since it was our first 100+ weekend and air conditioners all over town were gasping from the strain. My first thought was of a book I read a couple weeks ago where the power goes out worldwide and people are forced to start over from scratch. Quite quickly I checked my watch and cell phone to make sure fiction wasn't becoming reality. ;)

We ended up playing pinochle by candlelight and headlamp and had quite a few laughs before the power kicked back on an hour later. What a different world it is with electricity! I remember standing around the desert in Senegal when our car ran out of gas, surrounded by complete black stillness...

Saw a great cartoon as I read the funnies yesterday before church -- it reminded me that a couple months ago I was watching an 80's movie <courtesy of Netflix> and was astonished to hear the enviromental pitch that manmade global cooling was going to bring about a new ice age. We humans must be mighty powerful, only 20 years later we've now made it too hot to survive. Check out the cartoon here.

And I just saw the trailer for the new movie from the folks that brought us Facing the Giants. Looks pretty good: