Rhapsodies

Well last night the neighborhood had the second power outage in a month. Which made the evening interesting to say the least. The worst thing about them is they seem to know when I’m my zone working on something and haven’t saved for the last ten minutes. So therefore along with the aggravation of knowing you won’t get anything done for the next couple of hours there’s the added aggravation of loosing what you’ve been working on.

The first time it happened It caused a bit of a panic attack since it happened in the middle of the day so all I could see going out was the computer so I briefly worried. If it was technical difficulties. After a couple of minutes I realized it was the whole house and,after talking to some of the neighbors, the surrounding two blocks. (If you want a good laugh at sheer irrationality. This is one of the times I really regret having read the “Emberverse” series. Even if it’s something that occurs to you for a whole five seconds suddenly realizing just how dependent on all of your toys gets you where you live)

Anyway the first time I spent the rest of the day trying to work in the library and after that Barnes & Noble. Thanks to Seattle City Light’s Webpage I was able to keep tabs on the progress of the repair job. So was able to go home when it was done and reset all of the clocks not connected to computers.

When it happened last night it wasn’t quite so bad after all this time I had experience so this time It was mostly a nuisance. (also i was working on an InDesign document which unlike Photoshop makes emergency backups. The main downsides was the outage had taken place much later in the day and on a Sunday so I really didn’t have much hopes of the repairs being done before sunset. So it was a matter of waiting for it to be late enough to go to sleep.

I hope this will be the last time… but since the outage occurred in nearly the exact same place in two weeks I’m not getting my hopes up.