I began my afternoon by finishing BLACKOUT which I had started last night. Though the liner notes said the movie was 95 mintes long, it was actually only 82 minutes long, so I could have finished it yesterday with no effort.
Anyway, it was an OK movie. The writing didn't really explore any of the characters in great depth (and some of them were worthy of a more thorough exploration), and after the one bad night of looting, the power came back on 24 hours after it went out, just as tempers were rising to a fever pitch. So a bit anticlimactic after such a build-up.