Hello Reader, As you may know, I live in the foothills of Los Angeles, so the past four days have been very bad due to the fire situation. Tuesday night, the winds were absolutely insane (terrifying). One of our pine tree branches hit a power line and blew out the power for our entire neighborhood. Our neighborhood was put under a red flag warning, so the next morning we decamped to a friend's house in the Hollywood Hills for safety (and companionship and electricity). Later that night, the...