Gythio, Greece
Gyrometer: 8
I don’t mean to sound alarmist, but I think the world might be coming to an end. I wrote a few days ago about how all of my personal technology seems to be crashing and burning. This did not worry me in a Doomsday kind of a way until a few minutes ago.
I was laying in bed in my hotel, watching a bad American movie subtitled on Greek television, when a much more basic technological meltdown occurred. Not a computer crash or a mobile phone with no signal, but... BLAMMO! Just as a lengthy commercial break was ending, all of the power in town went out.
I am currently writing this in my journal on my hotel balcony, using the flashlight on my cell phone to light my note pad. (My telephone will not make phone calls, but at least it’s handy in a power failure.)
The entire town of Gythio appears to be blacked out, except for one restaurant directly below my window, which has fired up a noisy, gas-powered generator so they can keep cooking their octopus.
“You didn’t happen to bring a noisy, gas-powered generator with you, did you?" I asked a tour member with an adjoining balcony. Alas, he did not. It was not on the packing list we sent him before the tour.
Now sirens are blaring in the street below. Fire engines and police cars are zooming by. I am scanning the heavens for flying saucers.
The logical thing to do when plunged into darkness at this time of night would be to go to sleep, but between the sirens, the generator, and the pending destruction of our planet, that seems kind of futile.
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