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I hate power outages

Give me the lights, precious lights, give me light

By Arden, December 8, 2005

Just a brief rant on how much I hate power outages. They completely destroy your productivity and interrupt your workflow, and there’s nothing you can do to prevent them. The only measure of prevention against them is a UPS (which honestly, I can’t really justify buying right now).

It’s especially insulting when the power’s only off for a few seconds or a couple minutes. That way, everything I’m doing is interrupted, but there’s not a big wander-around-in-the-dark-for-4-hours situation. Gyaaaahhh.

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I hear you. I was doing homework once and bam, everything shuts off. Turns out somebody at APS cut the wrong wire, and I had to hurry and finish in the morning.

It was cool to be able to see the stars, though.

	Dec. 08, 2005
Liam	5:10 pm

I can relate. Eventually, a few years ago, I got a power backup by APC. Only three of the six outlets are battery-backed. There’s not much to do anyway with the power off unless you use dialup.

Everyone should save and save often. Or enable auto-save and automatic backups. It is annoying to lose power.

Bryan	Dec. 08, 2005
	6:29 pm

Well, fortunately, I wasn’t in the middle of an important project, and I was shutting a bunch of stuff down to reclaim resources so I could play Halo. But it’s still annoying, abrupt and an interference.