You would think that living in a major city (the fourth biggest in the Australia) in a first world country that the power companies could manage to have a reliable supply.
So why is it that i find myself blogging, yet again, about the undependable source.
There is a jolly good reason I run a Uninterruptable Power Supply on my main computer and my router and that is because the power in this house can just cut out for anywhere between half a second and 15 seconds.
This morning it was much longer so I guess that qualifies as a power cut rather than just an interruption.
I got woken at 6.15 by the beep beep beep of the UPS and tried hard to go back to sleep, but I just wasn’t tired any more so I laid in bed instead.
It would have been nice to get up and do some cleaning or something while there were no distractions but it’s just past the winter solstice and with no lighting and no power for the electronic ignition on my gas heater, staying warm in bed seemed like a better option.
I did end up falling back to sleep an hour later and now I have that muzzy dull feeling that I often get when I drift back off to sleep after I really should have got up
The power came back on just after 9am.
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