Bugs

[den]

Today's Strip

A bit late. We had a 4 hour blackout yesterday. A storm to the east of us cut the main power line to the west, and the secondary ones couldn't take the sudden load and failed. Dubbo, Narromine, Gilgandra, Warren, Coonamble, Coonabarrabran, Walget, Quambone, Bourke, Brewarrina, and Wanaaring (ie, the entire NW of the state) were all blacked out.

So, instead of spending Saturday afternoon rendering and assembling the strip, I sat in the breeze-way and read Terry Pratchett.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds like a good way to spend the afternoon

Steve

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Very relaxing, and quiet. No electrical appliances running at all.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

oh yeah! 38C and no AC.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[klishnor.livejournal.com]

At least your powerout happened when you didn't need heating and light, over here they somehow always manage to arrange for them to happen in really cold and/or wet conditions in mid evening.

So, instead of spending Saturday afternoon rendering and assembling the strip, I sat in the breeze-way and read Terry Pratchett.

Always a good way of spending time, reading Pratchett. Which book?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

"Guards! Guards!" again. Haven't reread that one for ages.

[copperwolf.livejournal.com]

Do your place-names come from indigenous words, or from place-names from the original countries of immigrants?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Bourke was named after the captain who built Fort Bourke in the early 1800s. All other names are indigenous. Dubbo means "red earth," and comes from the name for the local clans "Thubbogah," literally "red earth group."

One place I didn't name was Condobolin, which means, literally again, "the shit here."

[stoda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that definitely sounds like a real good way to spend an afternoon.

One of the first things that strikes me about a prolonged outage, at least after I get all the UPSs to stop beeping, is the quiet. It's nice.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

The first five minutes are pretty hectic getting all the network turned off in an orderly fashion, but once the fans spin down and the UPS stops it's nice.

The down-side: "Drats, the pc is off. Now what do I do? I know! I'll watch a DVD! ... BUGGER!"