Beth and I went to see a comedian in Fort Wayne Friday night. A few months ago we happened to be driving past the Clyde Theater and Beth spotted an upcoming show... Henry Cho....who we just happened to see 35 years ago at a Rose-Hulman homecoming show during my senior year. Of course we had to go. Back in 1990 he was just a young comedian trying to make it in this big harsh world, now he's a member of the Grand ole Opry. He is still just as funny as he was back then when nobody had ever heard of him. There were seats at the theater this time (see 1/23/22) so we were all good. He had an opening act who was ok, but we liked him better than the opening act for the comedian we saw in SB a couple years ago (see 7/16/23). Henry Cho did a pretty long set complete with a Q&A session (still with the jokes) and then did a set of 'requests' where he asked the audience if they wanted to hear a particular joke that he'd done in the past. There were a couple he did that I can actually remember from when he did the show at Rose... being the only Korean kid in the neighborhood playing army with the other kids (it's all of us against....you) and cowboys & Indians (I was always the cook). We even happened upon the Foxes at the show as well. Anyway, great show, we had a great time. We were going to spend the night in FW at a motel but in the end decided not to, one because the motels were all pretty expensive, and two because the power went out at the house while we were away. 

So yeah, the power outage. There was a big wind storm while we were gone, and the power just went out. Tree fell, probably. It was still out when the show let out, and when we got home, and when we all went to bed a bit later, and in the morning....and it was off long enough that I started to worry about the meat in the freezer, since last time (see 7/21/24) the power was out for multiple days. Last time I borrowed a generator from Trey, but this time when I got up and the power was still out I went out and bought a generator myself. A small one, big enough to run the freezer in the garage and the fridge, and charge all the phones. However we found that it cannot run the freezer and the microwave, at least not at the same time. But it can do a toaster and the freezer. Anyway, we now have a generator so the power will never go out again. And I thought for sure the power would be back by the time I came back from Menard's, but it wasn't so I ran the generator from around 9:00 until around 2:00 when the power finally did come back. 

Softball was rained out this week. We were scheduled to play another winless team, too...