All about me

Oh, one other blackout-related item. Naturally, the longer you go without electricity, the more you worry about the food in your fridge and freezer. I don't know why, but it was stuck in my head that, as long as you kept the doors closed, the food in your fridge was good for about 24 hours, and what was in the freezer would be OK for up to three days. Good thing I checked. Every site I looked at had the same thing:

Welcome to Mother Nature's Blackout. Have you find any oases of light and cool to get you through the last few days? Let us consider the Waffle House Index:

Its hurricane playbook explains how to reopen a restaurant and what to serve if there is gas but no electricity, or a generator but no ice. An important element is limiting the menu so the company's supply chain can focus on keeping certain items stocked and chilled or frozen.

So, OK, it was a little hot yesterday. Quit yer whinin':

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Thursday will go down as the hottest day ever for many Indiana locales, and the steamy temperatures will stick around for at least another day.

I've generally liked Jeff Daniels as a performer, and I admire him as a person, especially his commitment to raising his family in the heartland of Michigan instead of hanging out in Hollywood. But I'm afraid this is a series I'll have to miss:

Most likely to have "Hold my beer and watch this!" on his tombstone:

une 15, 2012 (COLUMBUS, Ind.) -- Police say a 12-year-old central Indiana boy hit a bullet cartridge with a hammer, firing a bullet that grazed a teenage girl.

New Orleans is about to become the first major American city without a daily newspaper -- The Times-Picayune will shift to a three-day-only publication with Web updates the rest of the week. Interesting observation:

Though conservatives may experience some schadenfreude at the prospect of no-newspaper towns, we’re going to miss them when they’re gone.

Susannah Breslin on "Why You Shouldn't Be A Writer":

Wow -- just like in the movies: "Suspected Indiana serial killer confesses mrders to local newspaper"

NEW ALBANY, Ind. -- An Indiana man accused of killing three women has confessed to a newspaper.

From Jean Kaufman's essay on the 40th anniversary of the event captured above:

All those who have said I stink -- if I live long enough, you may turn out to have been right:

The distinctive "old person smell" you may have picked up on when visiting your grandparents most likely wasn't your imagination, a new study indicates.