blackout

From 2pm to 1am last night.Thankfully, we had a tank full of hot water at home, from earlier in the day. So I could shower by candlelight, and go to bed at 9pm with no sense of guilt. Just a certain amount of worry over how I’d recharge my cellphone and laptop if the power wasn’t back by morning. And the bigger worry of the basement flooding in my parents’ house. There’s a generator in the compound that pumps ground water away, but when the power fails, the generator can’t run. Water fills the basement, along with a contingent of frogs and other small liquid-dwellers of the insect and amphibian world.

I was wide awake at 1.30am – body clock still confused. The power was back – yippee! – so I plugged in phone, laptop, and got 4 hours of work done before my melatonin tablet kicked in and put me back to sleep.