29 November 2005
powerless no longer... for now
The lights came back on this morning sometime before the aforementioned 5a.m. target, but I'm not sure when. Jessica woke me up to point out that some of the lights were now on, ones that I'd switched on for this very moment to give us a better indication the power had returned.
I muttered something about it, and she re-set the clocks, the nine volt battery backups having long since given out. I, for my part, attempted to fall back asleep.
Today I'm tired. Tired of waking up early, tired of power outages, and tired that such a vital system has no failover or redundancy* built into it.
* Lest you think I'm misunderstanding the concept of redundancy, last night while I walked around with a lit candle, I also carried a flashlight.
I only tripped and snuffed the candle out once, but in darkness once is more than enough.
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Ok, you need a slab of clay, a pad of steel wool, a clear plastic drinking cup, 2' of copper wire, and some lemons.
Take the wire and snip off two pieces measuring 2" in length and jam those suckers through the clay slab with 1" between them. Then, take the steel wool and extract one fiber from it. Wrap the fiber around the ends of the wire in the bar. Once that's done place the cup on the slab and press it down to seal it.
Next, stab the remaining wire into the lemons and connect the other ends to the ends sticking out from the clay slab. You should have about 1 second of light now.