Well, that was interesting
Jun. 5th, 2010 09:19 pmThere I was, settling back down to work after dinner and Doctor Who, when the lights started flickering wildly in time with the laboring AC, and then the power went out.
It was a very local outage -- the covered parking nearby still had power, and the apartments across the courtyard, but my immediate neighbors didn't. I fumbled around in the deepening dusk, extricating candles from a cupboard full of badly-stacked plastic boxes by the light of a keyring flashlight (gravity was definitely still on) and extricating the apartment management number from an old phone book likewise. Then I settled back down to work, at somewhat reduced efficiency because it seems I need at least some peripheral visual cues to type accurately, and angling the laptop screen to illuminate the keyboard reduced the visibility of the screen, but I did get a few plots done.
The power came back a few minutes ago, and distant cheering was heard.
And I still have to finish this poster tonight, I think.
It was a very local outage -- the covered parking nearby still had power, and the apartments across the courtyard, but my immediate neighbors didn't. I fumbled around in the deepening dusk, extricating candles from a cupboard full of badly-stacked plastic boxes by the light of a keyring flashlight (gravity was definitely still on) and extricating the apartment management number from an old phone book likewise. Then I settled back down to work, at somewhat reduced efficiency because it seems I need at least some peripheral visual cues to type accurately, and angling the laptop screen to illuminate the keyboard reduced the visibility of the screen, but I did get a few plots done.
The power came back a few minutes ago, and distant cheering was heard.
And I still have to finish this poster tonight, I think.
