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Was at work till 9 pm. Came home, worked till 1 am. Today much more peaceful. Except for the beeping of the UPS's, of course.
Yep, power's out. Yep, they're aware. So far, 800 or so customers are affected by various outages. I presume these are related to the brief flurry of violent rain and wind that hit for a minute or two a while ago, and caused me such glee at the time.
The laptop can get by for a couple or three hours on its own battery. However, I've got it plugged into the UPS at my feet, so it should sustain for longer than that. (That UPS powers my desktop. Which has been off, since I haven't been using it much lately. As a consequence, it was doing nothing until I moved the laptop to it in order to steal its juice.) I turned Scott's desktop off - no one is using it, so no point in draining the UPS to run it, especially as they warn that it may take several hours to get to all the reported outages. And the other UPS that sometimes handles the Mac, which isn't up right now, is therefore powering only the cordless phone, DSL modem, and hub.
I'm a techno geek. But I'm a techno geek who can survive a power outage, dammit.
I think I'll go find the flashlight while it's still daytime. Just in case, y'know, their estimate was conservative. Whee!
At least I hadn't started the laundry yet. Last night's laundry was already dry and nothing new started. Whew. :)
Yep, power's out. Yep, they're aware. So far, 800 or so customers are affected by various outages. I presume these are related to the brief flurry of violent rain and wind that hit for a minute or two a while ago, and caused me such glee at the time.
The laptop can get by for a couple or three hours on its own battery. However, I've got it plugged into the UPS at my feet, so it should sustain for longer than that. (That UPS powers my desktop. Which has been off, since I haven't been using it much lately. As a consequence, it was doing nothing until I moved the laptop to it in order to steal its juice.) I turned Scott's desktop off - no one is using it, so no point in draining the UPS to run it, especially as they warn that it may take several hours to get to all the reported outages. And the other UPS that sometimes handles the Mac, which isn't up right now, is therefore powering only the cordless phone, DSL modem, and hub.
I'm a techno geek. But I'm a techno geek who can survive a power outage, dammit.
I think I'll go find the flashlight while it's still daytime. Just in case, y'know, their estimate was conservative. Whee!
At least I hadn't started the laundry yet. Last night's laundry was already dry and nothing new started. Whew. :)
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I need to go shopping and get a flashlight. We own four. I could not locate ANY of them.
It does not have to be a powerful or long-lasting light. However, I do need to be able to find the stupid thing. :P
Though, if the UPSs had died, I'd've packed up and gone to the office in case I was needed. Feh.