Yesterday was the worst day in the history of days. I’m not exaggerating like I usually do, this time I really mean it. Worst day ever. It started with a loss of electricity right as I was starting to work and had just told a client I would “get right on that”. I was such a shortsighted fool.
I could have used the company laptop with my 3G card while the power was out, but it’s battery life is about 30 minutes on a good day and I had depleted that installing a firewall at the end of the previous work day. So I sat there as the 100 degree temperature outside made it’s way inside at an alarming pace and person after person called me on my phone which was almost out of battery as well.
Did I mention it was a perfectly clear day? I can see the power going out during a storm, which it would do that exact thing later in the day, but when it is clear out? Come on.My calls to the power company were met with indifference and estimates of “looks like it will be a while”. Swell.
So 4 hours later the power comes back on and I begin working feverishly. Just as the room is starting to cool down, out goes the power again. Still perfectly clear out. This time, phone and laptop fully charged, I am able to continue working. Just as the heat inside reaches roughly 1000 degrees, and the laptop battery warns me one last time that it is about to cease all operations, the power comes back on.
I continue working and slowly cooling down. Then comes the storms. Then goes the power. Again. Five crazy hot hours later at midnight, well after I had abandoned using the ice tray from the freezer and a flattened cardboard box as a makeshift air conditioner and gone to bed in a giant pile of sweat, the power comes back on. It’s been on ever since, but I am still nervous it may go out and never come back on. Each time I turn a light switch off, I jump and then realize that the power hasn’t gone off, it’s just me turning off the switch.
If there is such a thing a Post Electrical Outage Stress Disorder, I am pretty sure I have a giant case of it.
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