blackout

things i leanrt from our electricity being cut off:

1. it's extremely hot and uncomfortable and nearly impossible to sleep at this time of the year with no electricty.
2. when electrical generators explode or something similar they can blow a guy's whole arm off.
3. the Italian restaurant at the Grand Mercure hotel is pretty good.
4. I can't sleep on hotel pillows that are too fat.
5. the rooms at the Rembrandt hotel and bathrooms are really comfortable.
6. Rembrandt makes really good breakfast. (but i don't get why they only serve bran-wheaty-like cereal, ever heard of Koko Krunch or Honey Stars?)
7. you can be very restricted by lack of internet acess.
8. the 'Health Club' (which is just a room full of gym equipment) in the rembrandt has a weird guy who is so eager to explain the machines and can't help but check himself out in the many mirrors.

but most importantly..

9. you don't aprreciate something till its gone. (and yes that works on more than one level)