What do you take for granted?

Each night, sometime between 8 and 10 pm the power goes out until sometime in the morning between 6 and 9 am.  Apparently the Haitian electrical grid is powered down and if you require electricity, you either need to run a generator or fly a kite and hope for a lightning storm.  Thankfully we have the former here at the guest house, but it makes me stop and take note that a basic necessity, electricity, isn't something that is always available for people here in Haiti.  It definitely makes me take more notice of every light left on in an empty room, or a fan, or air conditioning, or hair dryers, or laptop computers...