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The New-Fashioned Way
We stayed at the cabin this weekend. On the family ranch down near Santa Cruz we have a cabin, built by my grandparents and extensively refurbished over the last few years by my mother and uncle. It's two rooms and a bathroom, running water and electricity, no phone. To get cell reception you have to walk the thirty feet to the top of the hill.
The cabin is locked when no one is there, and the keys are in a nearby location with a combination lock. I arrived friday night at eleven. As is typical in the country at night, it was pitch black - any ambient light was rendered moot by fog. The cabin's exterior lights are all turned on from inside the cabin.
The miniature mag-lite I keep on my keychain was dead, and I had to open a combination lock.
So I fired up my iPod and used the light from the screen to open the lock.
Not quite the way my grandfather would have done it...