Los Angeles is having another heat spell. My power was out much of yesterday…which apart from feeling like I was living inside a grilled cheese sandwich, wasn't all that awful. As I mentioned here long ago, I sleep with a CPAP machine. If you don't know what that is, it's explained here. Until recently, the unavailability of electricity would have meant I couldn't sleep.
But a year or two ago, I bought one of these. In fact, I bought it from the very page to which I just linked. It's a lightweight, small portable CPAP unit (APAP, actually) which I use as my travel machine and at-home backup machine. For some extra bucks, you can purchase — as I have — a battery pack that will run it at times when you're powerless. So even as I was getting behind on writing assignments, I was catching up on snoozing. It's a very handy thing to own.
I shall catch up on blog posts soon. That's assuming the power stays on.