I borrowed the title from a UFO album and song not because I want to talk about UFO today, but because it fits the topic at hand. UFO is one of those bands I need to sit down with and check out more, I am woefully uneducated on them. This is a pretty cool track, I’ll say that.

Anyway – I had a whole week of posts planned. I got to all of one of them, the Album of the Week. As anyone can clearly tell, I haven’t posted since then, despite all these big plans which included celebrating the two-year anniversary of this site, which was on Wednesday the 2^nd. I also haven’t read anyone else’s posts this week much at all.

So what happened? Well, the title should give you an idea. On Sunday night just before midnight, a very gnarly storm rolled through my area. A very large tree fell from my neighbor’s yard and the impact of that messed up my electric meter and knocked my power out. The damage from the storm was the most severe that area power crews have seen in at least a decade. I was without power from that point Sunday night until late morning Wednesday. And it’s been over 90 degrees outside during that time (about 32 for those of you who use that). And to top it all off, the power outage caused my job to get backed up and I had a few 12 hour or so shifts in that time I also didn’t have power at my house. It was not a pleasant week in the first half.

And yeah, in a way it’s relevant to the music interests I discuss here – of anything I own, the “pride and joy” would be my vinyl collection, which isn’t the world’s biggest but is a bit pricey in spots. That was sitting in a house without A/C in that kind of heat for roughly 60 hours. In fairness, the nights cooled off enough to be tolerable and the records are in a room with several windows so there is good airflow. Everything turned out ok, at least as far as the stuff I spot-checked so far, but I was getting close to the point where I would have to get everything out of the house if the power didn’t come back on soon. That is a relevant factor for any vinyl collector to consider – of course records can survive power outages in winter weather, but in the dead ass heat of the summer, they are sitting ducks in any kind of extended outage.

All’s well that ends well I guess, and now the week is about over, I’m back in the sweet embrace of my true love in life, air conditioning, and my records are seemingly safe from damage. All this really means for the site is that I’ll push the posts from this week to next. Most everything is 90% ready, I’ve been using that method to write lately and I get a lot more done as opposed to trying to finish everything in one go. I usually only schedule the post the day before it goes live so I wasn’t prepared to have content flowing out in the event of something like this. But I’m sure I, everyone reading and everything else will be fine.

I guess that covers it for the mysterious absence this week. Next week I’ll kick out what I intended to do this week and everything should get rolling normal again, and also the week after next I’m off work with not a whole hell of a lot to do, so the site should be firing off posts pretty regularly. See you all then.