Bad week
Last week was bad - real bad. It’s been a tradition over my years in engineering that exam times always bring power problems. I don’t know why, but it’s always been the case. It’s happened while I was in the hostel, friends home, my home - didn’t really matter. The power companies always knew. Take the last week for instance. Over the last seven days, the power has been out for an average of six hours in a day. That’s nearly two days of the week. I wouldn’t mind it so much if they cut the power in the morning - but then - that really does not impede my work, does it?
So, they cut power at around 3 in the afternoon. The perfect time to disturb anyone. The heat is on with the sun blazing away - and darkness comes at seven. My brave inverter tries to keep up - but after 4 hours it simply gives up the unequal struggle, whines softly to signal it’s defeat and goes off. Now heres the fun part - the light goes in 4 lanes in our area - the rest of the place has power. Go figure. Thankfully, have plenty of friends in and around, so does not really affect me all that much.
Of course, the situation last week was not helped by the tempo driver who crashed into a light pole, ruining the transformer that was attached to it. Nor was it helped by the gentlemen in the Public Works Department who decided that turning off the power and trimming branches at 12 in the afternoon was their duty.
If all this was not enough, my ISP had major link problems and I had no net access for the last five days. Talk about a bummer week.
Anyway, things seems to be better now. Yesterday the power went for the scheduled 4 hours and as you can see - I seem to be back online 
. In other good news, I won tickets for the premiere of Star Wars Episode III. Should be a fun evening.
And now I have to get back to my books. It’s such a relief to write again!
