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There was a hurricane. MA declared a state of emergency and the Institute actually fucking closed yesterday, so you knew shit could get real. (Seriously, the Institute only closes when there's a 50% or higher chance of the apocalypse.) So we were all home yesterday. I decided to play the Point Lookout DLC for Fallout 3 and determined that the quicksave button is actually short for "quick, save in case the power goes out". Which is handy, because at about 5PM, the lights seriously started flickering, I slammed the quicksave button, and 5 seconds after getting the confirmation, the power completely died.
Thankfully, we're a bunch of geeks and had flashlights and Link still had the Arduino LED project he made for Firefly this year to power strings of LED fairy lights down the banister so we didn't kill ourselves. Unfortunately, we're a bunch of geeks so after about 10 minutes with no power, we were looking helplessly at each other going "um, what do we do now?" :P
(The answer, in order, was "watch the last 3 episodes of Falling Skies on Link's tablet (so all 4 of us were smashed on a couch in front of small screen), read by flashlight, hook up phone to laptop to get teathered wireless if we had work to do, give up and go to bed.")
Amusingly, this means we were all very happy to go to work today, because work has electricity and things to do.
But we're safe, and hopefully, NStar will get the power back soon. When Link chased them down last night to figure out what happened after the storm and they were on our block, they guessed it might be back this morning. So who knows.
Thankfully, we're a bunch of geeks and had flashlights and Link still had the Arduino LED project he made for Firefly this year to power strings of LED fairy lights down the banister so we didn't kill ourselves. Unfortunately, we're a bunch of geeks so after about 10 minutes with no power, we were looking helplessly at each other going "um, what do we do now?" :P
(The answer, in order, was "watch the last 3 episodes of Falling Skies on Link's tablet (so all 4 of us were smashed on a couch in front of small screen), read by flashlight, hook up phone to laptop to get teathered wireless if we had work to do, give up and go to bed.")
Amusingly, this means we were all very happy to go to work today, because work has electricity and things to do.
But we're safe, and hopefully, NStar will get the power back soon. When Link chased them down last night to figure out what happened after the storm and they were on our block, they guessed it might be back this morning. So who knows.
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