Showing posts with label US life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US life. Show all posts

Friday, January 20, 2017

Capitol Vs Capital

As I was following the Inauguration, the headlines in newspaper said "Trump heads to Capitol" .  Something about the spelling felt wrong... I realized I had learnt to spell it as "Capital" and concluded spelling mistake in the newspaper.
 But as I followed the news in other websites / new papers found it was indeed "Capitol".
Curiosity got the better of me and I searched wiki.
Definitions are:
Capitol : capitol is a building in which a legislature meets
Capital :
  • Capital city, the area of a country, province, region, or state, regarded as enjoying primary status, usually but not always the seat of the government

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

POWER OUTAGE


Its amazing how life comes to a stand still in the US with a power outage. This morning, with no warnings there was a power outage in our area. A very rare occurrence for sure. We were already tossing in the bed around 5:30am because of the humidity when the power went out. That woke me up instantly.
 I am known in the family for waking up from my deepest sleep within a second the fan in the room is turned off. It was already dawn .. but I didn't know what I could do being awake. So I lay on my bed. The things we missed:
* A fan to keep the room
* Stove to make fresh tea
* Stove to prepare breakfast / pack lunch
* Lights in the hallway / bathroom
* Garage key since the opener wouldn't function
* My cordless phone
* Internet connection

It was almost our entire morning had come to a halt. Thankfully the power resumed around 7:40 am and we were back to our normal morning routine.