Can You Tell That I'm Trying To Start Working Again?

Pulling a blank on my final paper for senior seminar...it must be time to post.

Something just occured to me. Earlier today we had a pretty big thunderstorm (see earlier post) and it was accompanied by a power outage. For me, the power outage consisted of my fan and light turning off and my laptop screen getting a little dimmer. Within about eight seconds the back-up generator kicked in and everything was powered again. [/end blackout for Melissa].

First reaction was to be really happy that I had a laptop and didn't lose the work I had neglected to save. Second reaction was to feel bad for all those poor schmucks working on their theses or final projects on a desktop computer when the power went down. Lost work is always bad this time of year.

It didn't occur to me until someone mentioned that the nearby elementary school was out of power tonight that there was still a power outage anywhere. I truly live in a protected purple bubble. So, in case I don't say it enough: thank you Williams for reducing a whole night's worth of power outage during finals to a mere eight-second disruption.