Last night was our first local autumnal rainstorm, and it got dark early thanks to the dastardly end of daylight savings time. At 6:30 or so in the evening, right after my friend Mike arrived to study verilog with Mr. Pencil, our electricity went kaput.

I had just started getting ready to redistribute some type from a letterpress project and realized that electricity was entirely superfluous for that hobby, anyway. David and Mike ran to the liquor store for brandy (it seemed appropriate) and I lit up a forest of candles. Then I went to work all old-school Ben Franklin style.*

Candle, Composing Stick, Type, Furniture

Sydney and Me With Candles and Fire

Printing Room by Candlelight (Long-ish Exposure)

* Coincidentally, Ben Franklin was a (letterpress) printer by trade and also reputed to have dreamed up the notion of daylight savings time to save on candle usage.