Zap!

It's a 220V/50Hz electric world here, versus the 110V/60Hz that we have in the US. Higher voltage, lower frequency. (That can actually describe LOTS of things!) We also have THREE, count 'em, different kinds of plugs. Thin prongs, three prongs, fat prongs. My life is a panoply of adaptors.

But some things are universal: as if by conspiratorial agreement, all the lightbulbs still choose the same week to burn out.

Dinner by candlelight and soft-glow-of-the-computer is so romantic.