Nice short day at the office today. Not short enough mind you, but shorter.

Around 11 a.m. or so, actually the local “paper” (in quotes, because they’ve recently gone weekly and do the daily on the intertubes only) tagged it at 11:40 a.m., two wires touched and the lights went out. Of course, and unfortunately, my state-of-the-art workplace has tons of natural lighting and an emergency backup supply.

So, we sat sunlight from skylights and windows brightening the interior from pure gloom and shadow, as each and every worker bee still had access to his/her computer (on account of them getting plugged into special colored emergency powered plugs). Fortunately, the caterer had brought over the day’s free lunch right about when the power outage happened. So, while I couldn’t go to the usual Monday circuit-training class, as the gym was ruled an unsafe, unlit, basement no man’s land, I could eat. Everyone wiled away the lunch hour, I think, assuming the lights would come on momentarily.

Within a couple of hours PG&E had everyone but 6,000 hooked up again. Not my little salt mine, though. At around 4 p.m., they finally gave it up as a lost cause and sent us home.

Like the sad, middle-aged couple we have become, M. and I really grabbed the gusto with that spare time after work together. We napped and eventually got dinner.

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