Joff_NZ's Journal: Powercuts, uptime, early mornings, gaming

Well.. something to write about...

Last night there was a power-cut.. it started around 1am, and lasted... mm maybe an hour.. as far as we could tell it affected our block, maybe more, but we could see the streetlights from Stammore Rd and Fitzgerald Ave, so I suppose it was localised. I still wonder about the cause.. surely if it was part of some rolling-blackout type arrangement because of power shortages, we would have been informed about it... that and the energy saving figures have been pretty good recently... Ah well.

The power outage affected two things. Firstly, it killed the jobs I had running on Daisy's computer.. it was downloading an Invader Zim Episode that I haven't seen before, and it was also encoding a Chobits episode to MPEG-2, ready for SVCD. These things had to be re-set up when the power finally came back on. It also killed the uptime on my linux firewall/router box :( It'd been up nearly a month.. which doesn't sound like much, but I only put it in a wee while ago, and I keep messing around with it :)

The other thing that got affected was how much sleep I got.... it was 2:30 by the time I went to sleep, and as both Daisy & I had work in the morning, we got maybe 5 hours each...?? I'm feeling that right now... heeh.

I think im also becoming addicted to playing Natural Selection, a mod for Halflife.. it uses *actual* teamplay if you want any chance of winning, and actually requires proper use of voice communication... and its great.

Oh, and here's a link to Southern Forestry Ltd which is a site I made, and by listing it here, hopefully google will actually list the damn thing :)