Power outage

The power just came on in my apartment after being out all evening. There was a tree down across Ardmore Avenue just a block away from me, which may have had something to do with it.

I used, for the first time, the hand-crank radio I bought last year after narrowly escaping the blackout in New York (I was on the runway at LaGuardia when it occurred). In my night of quiet contemplation in the dark (punctuated by the use of my head flashlight) I discovered that Robert Schumann only wrote one piano concerto. It was very relaxing to listen to his one piano concerto as the hand-cranked radio's power slowly ran down, only to be greeted by a burst of volume when I cranked it up again.

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