When The Lights Go Down In The Citaaaaaaaay.... Los Angeles Blackout Knocked Cherry Blossom Special Offline For A Bit.

Did you miss me? I missed you, and it was all thanks to a darned blackout in Los Angeles where my WONDERFUL hosting company, Dreamhost, is located. Comparatively, my downtime of about two hours was a blessing compared to the headaches Los Angelinos are wrapped up in right now. Some dude in Burbank was installing an automatic transmission system, you know...regular stuff that we all do. He accidentally cut and then connected the red wire to the green wire and VOOM, just like that, "Honey, I blew up the San Fernando Valley!" It was like a scene from a bad Hollywood film, apparently, as 50 percent of the Los Angeles Department of Power and Water's customers lost power in a cascade of darkness.

Luckily for everyone, no terrorists were involved in this debacle, leading to speculation amongst Los Angelinos that someone had figured out a clever way to give thousands of their co-workers the rest of the afternoon off.

Ok, talk amongst yourselves. I got stuff to do, k? But don't bother with checking your MySpace for the thousandth time today because guess what?!? YEP, you guessed it -- Los Angeles, baby.