ELECTRICITY...E-LEC-TRICITY!!!

Few things are more annoying to your job than a power outage. This is especially true if your job is checking people's software for bugs. Thus this morning was really annoying for me. Apparently one circuit breaker, which controls half of my building's wing, kept tripping, following last night's electrical storms. As a result, my wing had no power. Now power, no computers, therefore in succession, no code, no editing, nothing to do but sit and get jacked on caffeine (the coffee maker and vending machines are on a separate circuit.) So they spend most of the day morning trying to get us up and running. This prompts me to take a long lunch, where I hear that local ESPNradio is holding a contest where the winner gets two tickets to San Francisco via Vanguard. This of course I find even more amusing when I realize that Vanguard went belly up this morning. S'anyway, after lunch, banking, lubing and washing the car, I come back to find everything back up. Until 3pm, when the other half of the wing goes down. Taking along with it, our air conditioning. Let me tell you, software engineers under a deadline are not the best of people, but when you cut off our electricity and air conditioning, we are not a pleasant people.