Julia did not get into the finals, but she shaved 3 seconds off her breaststroke time to 31.66. So best times in freestyle and breaststroke, but she didn't too so well in butterfly. She had a great time at the pool, it was very hot, but still she had fun with her friends. Her teacher from 2nd grade was there, watching her daughter on another team, so plenty of socializing.

We had a 3 hour power outage here today, started about 4pm, right when it was it's hottest (~102F). We got out of the house (there was an awards event for the swimmers, anyway). When we got back, it seemed to take forever to get the house cooled down. And this is what we pay the electric company 15-20 cents per kwh. Highest rates in the country and no sign of letting up. The paper said that they were asking for another rate increase and that they wanted to close all of their customer service offices. Nowhere else can you declare bankruptcy and come out with the customers footing the bill... :-(