And I’m back!

Power came back on just a bit ago.

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7 Hours later…

I’d just switched the laptop over to the Goal Zero unit. (I am trying to write a couple of books you know…)

In any case the network is back up. The DSL is DSLing and the washer continued washing my clothes right were it left off.

The fridge only got to about 39F and the freezer was still at 32F.

Printers and scanners and all manner of electronic gadgetry sprang back to life…

Honestly scared the hell out of me. Suddenly there was movement all around me. Clicks, whirrs, beeps and what not.

UnknownYou get used to the quiet and then the machines all fire up at once with no warning.

I’m a little ticked off.

When I called Edison to report that the power was out they said it was the whole town, and that this was routine scheduled maintenance.

In other words this was for my own good.

However, I know for a fact that it was just this little section of town and I hate being lied to.

They also claim that they were supposed to provide 10 days notice for “Routine”  maintenance. I haven’t received shit in the way of notice. 

Had I known that the power was going to be down, I’d have powered down my network and the approximately 10TB of drives and backup storage in a nice orderly fashion. I also wouldn’t have called to report the power was out. This morning the drives just had the plug pulled. Thankfully I wasn’t doing a major file synchronization that would have been a mess.

The drives have all spun up and are currently cleaning up any issues that may have been caused by open files or un-flushed buffers.

Luckily, my drives are pretty darn fast and I don’t expect there to be anything that can’t be fixed with a couple of choice UNIX commands.

And I got a lot of writing done. So that’s a good thing

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Maybe I’ll start taking the computer up the mountain and just write from a nice glade. I could take the tent and some research material on my ipad then write until my hearts content, or until the battery in the laptop dies. 

I could also start carrying the solar panels and have at all day and into the night writing sessions.

Nah… That starts to sound like camping… 

I prefer camping a la the Four Seasons!

Not entirely true, I do enjoy camping with the right people and good preparation.

Now to fire up the Air Conditioner and SIN like there’s no tomorrow!

Carbon Credits MY ASS!

I think I’ll send out for pizza delivery too!

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