Surprise day (kinda) off
My normal timetable at work is to arrive around 8:15-8:30 or so, work until noon/12:30, eat lunch and play a game of magic (or two) for the next hour or so, then back to work until 5-5:30.
As we're in the middle of summer, my commuting method of choice is biking. Biking one way takes around 45 minutes, and is something shy of 10 miles.
Today, I got in around 8:20 or so, and worked until somewhere around 8:30 or 8:45. At that time, the power went out.
Given that I'm a software developer, and I use a computer for my work, this is a bad thing, particularly without a battery backup.
After the power went out, it stayed out. As it turns out, a construction crew cut a (fairly major) power line, knocking out a couple square blocks, perhaps as much as the whole industrial park the office is located in.
At 9:30, we were told we could work from home via VPN or take the remainder of the day off.
I ended up biking home, relaxing for a couple hours, then working on my current project after lunch, without the VPN connection (My current project related to the Apache C++ standard library, so I could get what I needed without using the VPN-which is good, as I haven't set up a client to work with it).
As we're in the middle of summer, my commuting method of choice is biking. Biking one way takes around 45 minutes, and is something shy of 10 miles.
Today, I got in around 8:20 or so, and worked until somewhere around 8:30 or 8:45. At that time, the power went out.
Given that I'm a software developer, and I use a computer for my work, this is a bad thing, particularly without a battery backup.
After the power went out, it stayed out. As it turns out, a construction crew cut a (fairly major) power line, knocking out a couple square blocks, perhaps as much as the whole industrial park the office is located in.
At 9:30, we were told we could work from home via VPN or take the remainder of the day off.
I ended up biking home, relaxing for a couple hours, then working on my current project after lunch, without the VPN connection (My current project related to the Apache C++ standard library, so I could get what I needed without using the VPN-which is good, as I haven't set up a client to work with it).