Well, it's late friday night here in Vienna, VA (western suburb of DC)
and I've been without electricity for 26 hours now (aftermath of
Hurricane Isabel). Should have gotten one of those little Honda
generators, but somehow never got around to it during the main summer
period....

Despite the 110 foot tall trees in the backyard (50-60 of 'em), nothing
happened here of any substantial note (yeah a whole lot of leaves,
twigs and a few larger branches are on the grass, but nothing bigger
and an inch in diameter and none of those anywhere close my Vanagons.)

I understand my WV place (which effectively got the eye of the much
degraded hurricane) weathered things even better (mainly cause early
thunderstorms this year were more severe.)

I finished the book I was reading last night (by flashlight)...none of
the local bookstores were open to get something new (closed by the fire
marshals, for lack of water near as I can gather.)

So I'm sitting in the dark, working on a laptop (until it's battery
runs down). The UPSes gave up the ghost many hours ago. Ah the joys of
the modern age.

We now return you to your regular Vanagon content.