Autobiographical Tidbit

The fair city of St. Louis was hit by a brutal thunderstorm last night, knocking out the power to at least half of the metro area. Trees are down everywhere and it takes 15 minutes to go through a major intersection, using the esoteric You-Stop-I-Go-Repeat-Ad-Absurdum technique seen only when the traffic lights are out. Since I am one of the thousands of sweltering citizens without power I am rather reluctant to go home and start performing Katrina-like tasks such as throwing out the rapidly deteriorating contents of my refrigerator. I'd rather sit here at the office and blog inside the (…