Electricity was out this morning for 2 and half hours. What is there to do at an office with no electricity? The books I’m supposed to read when the electricity is off can put me to sleep faster than that stuff they give you before a big op. That stuff is pretty cool, they tell you to count backwards from 10; I can only ever remember getting to 10. Well I tried to sleep without the aid of these incredibly boring technical books (C++ stuff yay, and COM design/objects/interfaces/whatever), unfortunately these office chairs aren’t very conducive to a comfortable sleeping environment.

So is everyone else having fun with constant, completely unpredictable (the schedules mean nothing), ill-timed blackouts?

I was in the gym on Tuesday night, 10-15 minutes into my workout when everything went pitch black. Ok so I was at the very back of the gym, I mean, I could not get any further away from the door nor is there another point in the gym that I could be with more intervening equipment between myself and the exit. I contemplated continuing with my routine in the dark, but discarded that idea as a pretty bad one. I could easily do my workout with my eyes closed, the problem here would be moving between exercises. I’d be quite likely to trip over a dumbbell someone left on the ground and break my neck, certainly not the way I’d like to end off my day. Not to mention that finding the correct weight would be a mission (noone ever puts them back where they’re supposed to be).

After waiting for a bit, hoping that some backup lights would come on, I realised I was wasting my time. For those who don’t already know, I’m night blind, and I can see almost nothing at night. I’ll avoid driving at night and find an alternative (in case some of those who know me wonder why I ask for lifts instead of driving myself) if I can. I know the gym layout pretty well, but you get disoriented pretty quickly when you can’t see anything, and people move the equipment around all the time. Needless to say I hurt myself on the way out; smacked my knee on what I think was the weight arm of the seated calf machine. Yes, it was my left knee, the one that got pretty banged up in my accident at the beginning of August and has been really sensitive to pain ever since.

Oh ya I voted. Shame at you if you didn’t. I know there’s plenty of you who don’t believe in voting because you don’t believe in democracy; to me, that just seems like a poor excuse that allows one to continue moaning about the current state of affairs while presenting what is supposedly ideal.