Ginger Tea and Rolling Blackouts

Ginger tea is perhaps the finest tasting beverage i've had in awhile. The root is straight from the garden next to the kitchen, loaded with flavor and prepared perfectly. I could drink it all day long,

unless...

The rolling blackouts hit the land far and wide.

Let's set the scene,

I imagine a moist, tropical little municipal office deep in the heart of Bali's central city of Denpasar, the air thickened with plumes of clove cigarette smoke at night time. Inside are eight Balinese men preoccupied by a chess tournament that was started twelve days ago with the best of intentions; to decide the fate of the most corrupt among them. The loser will have to buy next time he collects. Laughter aside, their motivations are pure; live to protect number one. An effort that is completely possible with a little help for one's wife. Well, all the help actually.

Meanwhile, running concurrent to the goings-on within the corruption den is a series of events unfolding at a rapid clip next door under the Department of Redundancy Department. Little do the chess players know that due to a sluicing underground fire-hose shot of rice paddy runoff a deep hollow is collapsing beneath the DRD and this will soon form a chasm wide enough to swallow the Giga-Vector Watt Extrusion Contingency Device sent here by the Dutch to prevent rolling blackouts.

God help us all tonight, and please pray to the Hindu Gods of candles, flashlights, matches...and my internet access.