OT. Light Bulb Supper

Cute satire, but dated wrong. They have avoided rolling blackouts since

California has had _two_, count them again, _two_ cases of rolling blackouts due to a shortage of generation in the last quarter century, the first was caused by crooked power companies gaming deregulation in 2001. The other, during a heatwave last year.

The PSPS (Public Safety Power Shutdowns) that occur in certain wildfire prone areas (and have happened only a few times, in very limited rural parts of the state) are also due to incompetence by the utility companies where they stopped investing in infrastructure repairs and upgrades and instead pumped that money into stock dividends and buybacks.

There is generally more than sufficient capacity, even last week during the unprecedented heatwave when there was

I would call the meals breakfast, lunch, supper.

"Dinner" could be used for either of the last two, but only for a SPECIAL meal, not a regular one. (and if everything is special, that's the same as NOTHING being special)

"Luncheon" was some weird formal thing I had nothing to do with.

Depends on local/family traditions but there is some definition to the words.

Is dinner the same as lunch or supper? Supper is used especially when the meal is an informal one eaten at home, while dinner tends to be the term chosen when the meal is more formal. In some dialects and especially in British English, supper can also refer to a light meal or snack that is eaten late in the evening.

Many of us eat wrong anyway. Best to have the big meal around lunch time and a light meal later in the evening but we ten to do the opposite.

Sine I'm by myself, I usually at dinner at 6 and watch the news. With friends I eat later. In Italy, many restaurants do not open until 7PM for the evening meal, except in tourist areas.

When I'm alone I can eat without having a WORD for the meal.

As in Sunday dinner. My mother, having noted relatives screwing around the kitchen all day for a late afternoon Sunday dinner, proclaimed it would happen at high noon so the rest of the day wasn't wasted.

It worked out well. My father and I would go to nine o'clock Mass and get home about the time she was headed off to the Dutch Reformed services and handed the metaphorical apron to us.

The only occasional hitch was her minister. No matter how chatty a priest might feel he better get to “Ite, missa est” before the ten o'clock crowd shows up. A minister on a roll can go on forever.

The California governor and other officials warning must've been heeded. Did you see Newsom's speech warning people about the possible power outages ahead of time? He was in some sort of a jacket while doing it. Bad optics. I bet you're old enough to remember the days before air conditioning. We had a couple fans. It doesn't get as hot here in central Nebraska as it does in California. 105º is really rare here for a high temperature.

I visited CA after labor day and it was 105º in Orange county. Drove north to Yosemite but could not drive through the park to Tahoe as the Donner pass was snowed in. Big state with varied climate. Went up a mountain on a tram near Palm Springs and there was snow on the ground in November then back to hotel to lounge around the pool in the afternoon. Sacramento is further north and maybe not hot that day.

Old enough but I still don't have AC at home and we had a run of high

A friend was at Pendleton when they were told they would be bused to Pickle Meadows for mountain training. "It's California, how bad could it be?"

My friend spent most of his time on Okinawa. I think the Crotch was a little gun shy after its experience in the Korean tropical paradise.

Memorial Day at Mt Hood, OR a few years ago. 59° on Rt 26 at the base, 28° at Timberline Lodge.

Memorial Day is typically the last day of the season at Mt Hood. Timberline Lodge is out of this word beautiful. Worth the drive up just for a cup of coffee. (I use the loft area as my Zoom background)

When we got out of the car an Eagle swooped so low that we could hear the whoosh of it's wings.