Normally I wouldn’t be too bothered, I’d just go to sleep and by the time I woke up it should be restored. However…. as sods law would have it, I had just woken up from a marathon sleep, as I was waking up I heard my PC click off, (that horrible sound that means something bad has happened to it). I keep my PC on ALL the time, so this was bizarre. So anyway, I disregard it because my bed was too warm for me to leave it and opt to doze for a bit. Then I get a phone call from jim to wake me up again. Perfect.

I look at the clock, bang on midnight. Shitting perfect. “Hold on,” I think to myself, “why is my PC and TV off? I left them on.” Cue bedazzled expression while trying to hold a conversation with Jim. So I turn on my bedroom light. No shining brightness from above, just dim darkness
In fact, that picture you see up in the top left, that was the last picture taken by my webcam before power went out!

Jim rang me so I could do something for him, something that necessitated me being on the net. If he’d rung me just 5 minutes earlier I could’ve done it. But no. The power went sodding well before he rang. So I had to give him my password to complete his task. DAMN IT!

I’ve had power cuts before, but in the majority of cases I’ve just gone to sleep and woken up to full power. Since I’d just been asleep for 12 hours it was highly unlikely that I could manage to get back to sleep again. Once I’m awake, I’m awake. Just like once I’m asleep, I’m asleep.
So there I was, stuck at midnight with no power. No PC, no net, no phone, no TV, no xbox, no music, no light (note my priorities) and all at midnight. God phecking dammit!

So, I sit down in my chair and start to think. I hate having nothing else to do apart from think. It makes me use my brain in an introspective way (not something I enjoy). It was during this “thinking” malarky that I realised just how dependent the human race is on power, not just electricity but all forms of power. Just think about it… what would you do if there was a power-cut at home when no-one apart from you is awake. I realised that I had nothing to do. Quite sad really, I know. I admit it, I depend on modern technology far too much. This whole theme fits into my theory, but I’ll save it for part 3. At man’s most productive, we weren’t dependant on electricity. The dawn of civilisation knew nothing of electricity, indeed just a couple of centuries ago you would be accused of demonology if using the power of electricity to do something.
(Note to self: this is theory material, not blog.)

SO… here’s hoping that EVERYONE has an AWESOME
New Year

and as few power cuts as possible!

See you in 2005!