We tend to get some violent storms that rip through the Motor City and knock the power out. I look at it as if we’re living in the old times, you know, before the Internet existed. Fortunately, we live in the era of data, and even if the power is out, you can still pull up Netflix or Hulu on your phone and stream your favorite show. Unlimited data is a beautiful thing. However, there are still these things that exist called “dead zones,” and if you’re like me, you live in one. That’s right, I live in a dead zone. I have no signal in my house without Wi-Fi. That means when I cut cable and went to strictly streaming, I couldn’t get our local channels 2, 4 and 7 without having an antenna. Yep, I’m still that person rocking the rabbit ears. Actually, I’m rocking an indoor/outdoor Marathon monstrosity, and I still have issues getting the local channels, but I digress. I tried to stream Netflix, but the show would buffer every four seconds and not only is that annoying, my impatient ass couldn’t handle it.
The minutes went by, then hours and now I’m sending my dad to my house to grab all my frozen food out of the freezer. So, what have I been up to the last 18 hours in my solitude? A lot of wondering around my house so I came up with some things to do when the power is out: