<![CDATA[With the federal govt. shut down at the end of last week, this is my
first chance to get back into email.
Did everyone make it through okay?
We lost power at my apartment on Thursday and it is still not on.
Neither is the phone service (so much for underground lines). My uncle
owns some land down in St. Mary's county and lost everything - the house
on the property, the car they had parked there, the road leading up to
the place, tools, guns, antiques, etc.
I took refuge from the storm at my Dad's house just outside Annapolis.
The water levels in Annapolis rose above the parking meters on Main
Street and it was awful to see.
(Main Street in Annapolis, incidentally, is the home to 'Ego Alley',
where white trash millionaires go to park their oversized yachts and
drink $6 budweisers. The price of everything on main street is
outrageous - and for that reason is wasn't too terrible seeing
overpriced clothing, kick knacks and crab replicas floating out into the
bay.)
I also spent some time in Baltimore, where streets were cordoned off
because of the water is so dirty you could get sick wading in it. I was
able to canoe down to the inner harbor where everything was underwater.
There had been some looting, apparently, as evidenced by the number of
fresh empties floating around the doors of bars.
In other news, I went to Staples to buy flashlights and came across a
great deal on a photo printer. HP Photosmart 4x6 printer, refurbished,
$49 bucks. $49 is about the cost of the toner cartridge and the premium
glossy paper the printer comes with - good deal.
The thing is about the size of a small toaster and is available on
Staples Web site at this price as well. I bought one and was surprised
both at the quality of the photos and the fact that getting it running
under Linux took about 1 minute.
M
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