Light switch: Engage.

This post is dedicated to Jean Luc Picard. In the year 2500, despite being able teleport, travel at warp speed and, most relevantly, to video chat with alien species on different space vessels, he did not have a freakin' wireless video camera. This was an inconvenience when his away team when on missions:  "Number one, tell me what you are seeing down there?" Riker does a good job, though, at keeping it fresh with a new description of the same set as the last planet. 

We sympathize with Captain Picard's lack of a technology he should have been able to rely on given the century. But brownouts/blackouts are part of the daily Malawi routine. Usually it is just a couple of hours a day (and usually just before dinner is cooked enough to be edible, no matter what time we start.) but right now Malawi is having rolling blackouts so it is a little more extensive.  So far today, we woke up and left the house without out it. When we got home, it was out (still or again?). And last night, we went to bed early while the electricity was out (The dark is sleep inducing. Cave man remnant. It's science.) It is a little annoying, but we make the best of it. 

Here is a photo from our first blackout soon after we arrived. I never thought I'd eat so much cheese and crackers in Malawi considering the cost of cheese, but it has turned into a blackout dinner staple and I am ok with that. Also, yes, we are watching TNG starting from season 1. Thank goodness laptops run on battery!