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angharad_gamWell, maybe only in a first world problems kind of way.
I was woken up at some godawful hour of the morning by the sound of torrential rain on the roof. I have always been a fairly precarious sleeper, so this meant I stayed awake for a while after that. Eventually I got up - sometimes a brief getting up resets the brain or something and makes it easier to get back to sleep - at which point I noticed that the power was off. I went and checked the safety switch, and sure enough, it had tripped. So I flipped it back on and it tripped again straight away. I did this a couple more times, because you know, it was 5am. Nope.
Now this is not an entirely unusual occurence in our house. This house was built by a builder for himself, so it has a lot of bells and whistles, and then the person who lived in it after that was an electrician, and he added a few more whistles, and some shiny red bows for good measure. The electrical system is a trifle over-egged to put it lightly (some of you may recall the issues we had trying to get TV reception after we moved in). And it's a bit sensitive at times. There was a period of time when we had to unplug the kettle before we went to bed each night, otherwise the safety switch would trip overnight. So the next thing I thought of was switching off some things and seeing if that helped. It didn't. After a while, I gave up and went back to bed, because 5am. I did not get back to sleep.
When the alarm went off, the power was still off. And when I say power, btw, I mean the main circuit with the power points etc on. The lights, which (as in most houses) are on a separate circuit, were ok, as was (thankfully) the heater. We went around switching off more things, to no avail. At this point I had to abandon the field and actually go into the office. I usually work from home on Wednesdays, but no power means no router means no internet means no work.
Eventually Andy had to call an electrician who, after two hours of poking around, worked out that one of the many external power points that have been installed around the house had become inundated with water during the episode of heavy rain in the night. We don't have much use for external power points, so it is now excised. Problem solved.
What does this have to do with not being able to play Dragon Age? Not a huge amount actually. The power was actually back on by the time I got home from work. However, I have a rule about not playing video games in the evening (espec on weeknights), mostly due to the aforementioned precariousness of sleep. On days when I work from home I can sometimes squeeze in an hour before dinner in the time I would normally be on a bus. Or waiting at a bus stop wondering if my bus is actually going to show up. So I missed that. And we managed to swap the defunct Dragon Age II disc for an actual working one the other day, so I am a trifle keen to get into it.
First world problems.
In other news, today my brother was struck by lightning in Estonia (to clarify - both he and the lightning were in Estonia - he is still there in fact - the lightning has moved on). He is fine. He has always been the kind of person who can get struck by lightning in Estonia and be perfectly fine. For the rest of us mere mortals, using an umbrella whilst walking in a thunderstorm is a bad idea. Especially if you are in Estonia.
I was woken up at some godawful hour of the morning by the sound of torrential rain on the roof. I have always been a fairly precarious sleeper, so this meant I stayed awake for a while after that. Eventually I got up - sometimes a brief getting up resets the brain or something and makes it easier to get back to sleep - at which point I noticed that the power was off. I went and checked the safety switch, and sure enough, it had tripped. So I flipped it back on and it tripped again straight away. I did this a couple more times, because you know, it was 5am. Nope.
Now this is not an entirely unusual occurence in our house. This house was built by a builder for himself, so it has a lot of bells and whistles, and then the person who lived in it after that was an electrician, and he added a few more whistles, and some shiny red bows for good measure. The electrical system is a trifle over-egged to put it lightly (some of you may recall the issues we had trying to get TV reception after we moved in). And it's a bit sensitive at times. There was a period of time when we had to unplug the kettle before we went to bed each night, otherwise the safety switch would trip overnight. So the next thing I thought of was switching off some things and seeing if that helped. It didn't. After a while, I gave up and went back to bed, because 5am. I did not get back to sleep.
When the alarm went off, the power was still off. And when I say power, btw, I mean the main circuit with the power points etc on. The lights, which (as in most houses) are on a separate circuit, were ok, as was (thankfully) the heater. We went around switching off more things, to no avail. At this point I had to abandon the field and actually go into the office. I usually work from home on Wednesdays, but no power means no router means no internet means no work.
Eventually Andy had to call an electrician who, after two hours of poking around, worked out that one of the many external power points that have been installed around the house had become inundated with water during the episode of heavy rain in the night. We don't have much use for external power points, so it is now excised. Problem solved.
What does this have to do with not being able to play Dragon Age? Not a huge amount actually. The power was actually back on by the time I got home from work. However, I have a rule about not playing video games in the evening (espec on weeknights), mostly due to the aforementioned precariousness of sleep. On days when I work from home I can sometimes squeeze in an hour before dinner in the time I would normally be on a bus. Or waiting at a bus stop wondering if my bus is actually going to show up. So I missed that. And we managed to swap the defunct Dragon Age II disc for an actual working one the other day, so I am a trifle keen to get into it.
First world problems.
In other news, today my brother was struck by lightning in Estonia (to clarify - both he and the lightning were in Estonia - he is still there in fact - the lightning has moved on). He is fine. He has always been the kind of person who can get struck by lightning in Estonia and be perfectly fine. For the rest of us mere mortals, using an umbrella whilst walking in a thunderstorm is a bad idea. Especially if you are in Estonia.
