Big excitement here today in Toronto. At 11:50 am the entire downtown core lost power. Most people stumbled around with a bewildered look on their faces staring enviously at the laptop users continuing to work. The atmosphere switched from "studious" to "party" as people realised they couldn’t really do anything. Then the laptop users became the envious ones. Eventually they too ran out of power and people started to go home.
Not me, I just unplugged my hard drive from my Quad tower and switched operations over to my laptop. Things moved a lot slower on that little screen but at least I was able to continue to work and I tried to save the power as much as I could. Actually, I didn’t even need to call on my backup battery... which was a good thing because I think it has drained to just 50% power sitting there in the case. Backups aren’t much good unless you keep them primed and current.
It is 1:00pm now and power has been restored in spite of the rumour that it would be out for three to five hours. The phones are working but there is no internet service yet. Oh, there it goes, it’s up now.... blogging!
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