It’s 2:35 am. I am still at the office. The power went out shortly after 10 and we’ve just been sitting here, waiting for it to come back so we can put out the paper. MLGW has told us they have no clue what the issue is, but that substation 21 has been affected, and that means us plus The Med and Le Bonheur. Our office phones are down and our emergency lights are running on generator power.
We’ve had beer, we’ve had coffee.
It’s starting to get warm in here, and my phone is going to become as worthless as the rest of these electronics soon.
I’m beginning to think we’re going to be here for forever. Fuuuuuuu
Update, 4:26 a.m.: Power’s up, and has been for neeearly an hour now. But booting up our servers takes time and, given that some of our equipment is not, uh, equipped to ever lose power, it’s possible that we will run into some problems trying to get everything running smoothly again. So I wait. We’ve got internet now, at least, so I can do something to pass the time. But I’m starting to feel pretty loopy and my teeth hurt. I’m having company in seven hours and had planned to clean up the house tonight. Funny how that worked out, huh?
Update, 11:29 a.m. on Friday: I guess I should mention I finally got home at 7 a.m. I probably should have waited until I held an actual copy of the paper, but the presses were running and I was running out of steam. So hopefully the paper got out, just a smidge late.
As long as your place doesn’t have a screaming infant, it will be the most wonderful and awesome place on the planet.
Reminds me of a night back in mid-2001, when I was fairly new at the paper and our Internet publishing system was a lot more primitive than it is now. (We used to create every single story page by hand, using Dreamweaver.)
We had to copy the entire site over to the Web server from a local hard drive, and for some reason that night the copy went really slow, maybe ten files/minute (as opposed to hundreds). There was nothing to do, but I had to stay and make sure it didn’t screw up. I was there until 6:00 a.m. or so, just watching and occsaionally rebooting when it froze up. Yawn.