When the power goes out, I hit the sack...
I was working at home today when the wind storm hit, causing my lights to flicker. I called to work and spoke with a coworker to advise them that I would take four hours off today, as it appeared that the power was to go out, and I don't trust the battery on my laptop. Yes, it's a relatively new HP/Compaq that I was issued earlier this year, and yes, it has better power management than my old Dell, but I still don't trust batteries all that much. I was once at an audit site, when the lights dimmed in the conference room I was working in, and I kept working on until I got a warning message four hours later that my battery was about to die. It was when I spoke to the secretary in the next office over that I mentioned that I thought a circuit breaker had blown in the conference room that she mentioned the power had been out for four hours. She looked at me like I was completely clueless, and was wondering which portal to a strange universe I had stepped out of. But I digress...
A few minutes later I was on the phone with my dad, asking him if his power had gone out. He said that they had a few breezes, but that was it. After getting off the phone I noticed that my own power had gone out while I was on the phone. I went ahead and wrapped up my work, headed out to get some last minute shopping done (the parental wish list), snag lunch from KFC, return to a cold house, have lunch, and crawl into bed to get warm. Three and a half hours later I noticed that I was extremely warm, at which point I woke to a blinking clock. I called back to my dad, to tell him that I had in fact lost power during our earlier conversation, and he mentioned that he was now without power.
I always like to think back to the Puget Power (our local power company) commercials I saw as a teenager. In one of the commercials, an elderly couple is sipping soup at the dinner table. The woman is intoning, "When the power goes out my husband falls asleep." As she completes the sentence, the room goes dark as the lights are extinguished. You hear a man snoring as if underwater...
A few minutes later I was on the phone with my dad, asking him if his power had gone out. He said that they had a few breezes, but that was it. After getting off the phone I noticed that my own power had gone out while I was on the phone. I went ahead and wrapped up my work, headed out to get some last minute shopping done (the parental wish list), snag lunch from KFC, return to a cold house, have lunch, and crawl into bed to get warm. Three and a half hours later I noticed that I was extremely warm, at which point I woke to a blinking clock. I called back to my dad, to tell him that I had in fact lost power during our earlier conversation, and he mentioned that he was now without power.
I always like to think back to the Puget Power (our local power company) commercials I saw as a teenager. In one of the commercials, an elderly couple is sipping soup at the dinner table. The woman is intoning, "When the power goes out my husband falls asleep." As she completes the sentence, the room goes dark as the lights are extinguished. You hear a man snoring as if underwater...