The power has been on all day long.  So life has been pretty much normal and we are back to taking things for granted.  We get so used to the easy life that we live that a little power outage throws us off of our game.  I have to say though that we handled it pretty well last night.  But the things that really affect me are when bad things happen to my family.  It bothered me the other day when Sharon had her car break down.  I feel a little better now that it isn't quite as bad as it was.  But I know what it can be like.  Then Robert and Cicily are having car problems of their own.  Then today Richard's car broke.  I'm waiting for Sherri or Shelli or Shauni to have the same thing happen.  Our own car isn't all I wish it was.  But life goes on.  Even with his car problems it was good for me to have Richard back to work.  Even with him back for 2 days of work this week it will still be sort of a wash.  So I am looking to next week to be back to what I call normal.  In fact, right now I have lots of work and I like that more then not having lots of work.  I need to be busy to be happy.  That way I can be happy when I am not busy because I have been working so hard because I am busy so I enjoy the time off when I take it.  We learned that Nicholas did not advance in his Sterling Scholar thing.  It would have been nice, but we are proud of him for the kind of young man that he is.  It is neat how one can actually take pleasure out of just knowing the goodness in another.  In fact, that's what I aspire to be:  someone that can make others feel better about life just because good people associate with other good people and they sort of breed goodness between them.  I hope that you know what I am talking about and I also hope that you know people like that.  I know that you ARE people like that.  And that's what I want to be too.  It is a very real thing this goodness radiating goodness.  In fact, it may be the most real of all things.