04-08-2023, 10:52 AM
Cycle 4, stage 4, day 7:
today is the second day without any electricity at my place. I am writing down this entry offline to post it later when electricity comes back eventually.
Wednesday evening a lot of icy rain did cause a major electric blackout where I live. Needless to say that this is a major show stopper when it come to work with my computer. No electricity, no Internet, no phone.
My main worry is that the blackout last more than 48h. If it does, I am afraid that I may lose all my frozen food.
With this concern aside, the situation did force me to adapt what I do with my time. Yes, I try to visualize what I am going to do on the code once the electricity comes back. I hope that having done so will somehow make things go faster by having rehearsed them mentally first.
Most of my time in the last 2 days have been used for reading. I have so many books that it is even not funny. Something that I have noticed is that my book selection has drastically changed.
I have exclusively picked finance related books. I usually opt for programming books. When you think about it, this is perfectly logical. Yes I am enjoying reading programming books but I am already an expert. Exiting my comfort zone and improving my application domain knowledge is probably the most profitable thing that I have made this week.
but this is a blessing and a curse at the same time. My reading is giving me so much ideas on ways that I could improve my system while it is impossible to work on them. It is very frustrating.
In those situation, I realize that my backup plan in case of a major electric blackout is deficient... OTOH, does the effort to plan for something happening once every 20 years worth it??
today is the second day without any electricity at my place. I am writing down this entry offline to post it later when electricity comes back eventually.
Wednesday evening a lot of icy rain did cause a major electric blackout where I live. Needless to say that this is a major show stopper when it come to work with my computer. No electricity, no Internet, no phone.
My main worry is that the blackout last more than 48h. If it does, I am afraid that I may lose all my frozen food.
With this concern aside, the situation did force me to adapt what I do with my time. Yes, I try to visualize what I am going to do on the code once the electricity comes back. I hope that having done so will somehow make things go faster by having rehearsed them mentally first.
Most of my time in the last 2 days have been used for reading. I have so many books that it is even not funny. Something that I have noticed is that my book selection has drastically changed.
I have exclusively picked finance related books. I usually opt for programming books. When you think about it, this is perfectly logical. Yes I am enjoying reading programming books but I am already an expert. Exiting my comfort zone and improving my application domain knowledge is probably the most profitable thing that I have made this week.
but this is a blessing and a curse at the same time. My reading is giving me so much ideas on ways that I could improve my system while it is impossible to work on them. It is very frustrating.
In those situation, I realize that my backup plan in case of a major electric blackout is deficient... OTOH, does the effort to plan for something happening once every 20 years worth it??
