Living in the dark

Although it is only June 4th, I guess it's officially summer here in Italy, since the energy crisis has started. We've always had an issue here with the power (besides the transformers issue), because there is a governor on the electricity- if we use too much at once, all of the power is cut off until we turn something off and reset the fuse box. Although that may sound draconian to the average American, it's not too bad, and we have gotten used to it- you just can't run three heat-generating things at once, like the dryer, the washer, the dishwasher, the hairdryer, and the iron. There might be more offenders, but those are the main culprits we've identified so far.

However, the new energy issue is that they have lowered the limit, or something to that effect, because I was not able to use the hairdryer at all today. I even went around and unplugged everything else in the house, but to no avail. I'll probably get over this, too; the perks of living in Italy far outweigh awesome hair.