Power Outages Bite!
May. 17th, 2011 04:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shinelumiereSo, earlier this fine evening...or was it morning...eh
Sometime around midnight, I was hanging out with the cats in the living room and watching some of the shows I record. Suddenly the power blinked, then there was a loud bang outside, kinda like a gun-shot - from the direction of the power lines - and then the power went out completely.
I'm not afraid of it per-say, it sort of feeds off of my other strong dislike, the dislike of the unknown. I don't like having open curtains at night, not for mom's reasons of not wanting people to be able to see in when the lights are on, if they look and get an eyeful, it's kinda their own fault. I don't want the curtains open at night because I can't see out.
that mild paranoia aside, I also really really don't like quiet. As I type this, I'm good with the quiet, cause I know that as soon as I hit the post button, I'm going to go back to the living room to watch the rest of the show I was watching, otherwise, I'd have music or the tv running for noise. The snoring cats help too.
So, we can see power outages are fun for me. When other people are here, it takes an edge off the feeling that I'm being watched. While I'm tired, and I wasn't able to get comfortable enough to sleep; between poor air circulation, and bulky headphones - cause I completely forgot that my iPod has speakers, and was using moms which does not - I'm really glad that mom's iPod had an almost full charge, and that I'd put several movies and tv episodes on it the last time I synced it.
Having the iPod did not stop me from pulling out almost a dozen flashlights and candles and making my room as if the power wasn't out. Nor did it stop me from closing off all the other rooms and then locking my bedroom door and planning on not coming out till dawn....
So, I've fixed all the clocks, made sure things have come back on like the AC and the net, keyed myself down a bit, I think maybe I'll go finish that episode I was watching before the power went out, and try to get some sleep.
Sometime around midnight, I was hanging out with the cats in the living room and watching some of the shows I record. Suddenly the power blinked, then there was a loud bang outside, kinda like a gun-shot - from the direction of the power lines - and then the power went out completely.
I'm not afraid of it per-say, it sort of feeds off of my other strong dislike, the dislike of the unknown. I don't like having open curtains at night, not for mom's reasons of not wanting people to be able to see in when the lights are on, if they look and get an eyeful, it's kinda their own fault. I don't want the curtains open at night because I can't see out.
that mild paranoia aside, I also really really don't like quiet. As I type this, I'm good with the quiet, cause I know that as soon as I hit the post button, I'm going to go back to the living room to watch the rest of the show I was watching, otherwise, I'd have music or the tv running for noise. The snoring cats help too.
So, we can see power outages are fun for me. When other people are here, it takes an edge off the feeling that I'm being watched. While I'm tired, and I wasn't able to get comfortable enough to sleep; between poor air circulation, and bulky headphones - cause I completely forgot that my iPod has speakers, and was using moms which does not - I'm really glad that mom's iPod had an almost full charge, and that I'd put several movies and tv episodes on it the last time I synced it.
Having the iPod did not stop me from pulling out almost a dozen flashlights and candles and making my room as if the power wasn't out. Nor did it stop me from closing off all the other rooms and then locking my bedroom door and planning on not coming out till dawn....
So, I've fixed all the clocks, made sure things have come back on like the AC and the net, keyed myself down a bit, I think maybe I'll go finish that episode I was watching before the power went out, and try to get some sleep.
