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We're having a particularly tempestuous summer this year. There was a major power outage in our office building yesterday afternoon due to the sudden deluge of truly biblical proportions. It was almost uncanny: one minute the weather seemed relatively fine, just a bit overcast on one side; the next, the sky opened up and lights started flickering throughout the building. There wasn't even much thunder or lightning; just this torrential rain, like in a tropical jungle or something. It took mere minutes before all lights were out. Most of our computers died within a few seconds. The boss told us to go home - and better leave the building ASAP, because she'd been trapped in there twice before during a storm. So out we went (by the stairway, obviously, since we'd been warned to steer clear of the elevators just in case). Of course, I didn't bring an umbrella. Not that it would have helped much, anyway - the water seemed to be coming from all directions. I was drenched by the time I reached the car. Then I just sat in it, on the parking lot - because, seriously, who would drive in that??? The traffic didn't look like it was moving, anyway. Except for several firetrucks that went out all at once (there is a fire station right across the street from our office). When finally the rain eased up a bit, most of the traffic lights in the neighborhood were still out. So the drive home was a painfully slow crawl. Fortunately, there didn't seem to be any outages in my area - to my great relief, upon getting home I found both the fridge and the laptop still in working mode.:)

That's all my exciting news at the moment, I'm afraid. Unless you want to hear about the movie I've seen, which troubled me a little for, perhaps, the wrong reasons. My guess is that you don't, but I'm going to write about it anyway - so if you couldn't care less for gruesome historical dramas without a happy ending (yes, I'll be giving major spoilers too, because without them, I can't explain what my problem was), don't follow the cut.;)

The movie is called The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, and tells the story of an 8-year-old German kid whose father is a major Nazi officer in charge of a concentration camp. ( Read more... )