When the lights go down in the city...

[cormac]

Apparently power is down all over Pasadena. Walnut Center is working on emergency power, but many things aren't tapped into that power. Things like the electric toilets and sinks installed in all bathrooms. The only working manual toilet we have is in the first floor women's bathroom (I guess the men's one is broken).

So we don't have toilets, but our computers work so we have to stay. Go figure.

Update 1: Shortly after I posted this, the power returned. I'm going to go on a limb and guess that Engineering thought the crisis was solved, and pulled the computers from the generators. Sure enough, the grid went down again for 2 seconds or so, again wiping whatever people were working on that wasn't saved.

Comments

[hagerson.livejournal.com]

Or the building uses a large commercial UPS and it stuck during the switch over. I've seen that happen before. If there is any sort of power surge when the relay switches over, it can spot weld the relay into either the open or closed postition.

[mysryael.livejournal.com]

They may have been afraid to let you all go,
and then to have to call you all back?

I think that maybe this is one of those someone
needs to find a brilliant solution (like portapotties)
and beat his boss over the head with it (like in dead
flounder)

unsettling day for you though...curiosity wants to know
at what point they will send you home under emergency
operation conditions.

[dragynsidhe.livejournal.com]

you have the best iconses evar. <3

[dragynsidhe.livejournal.com]

because, you know, someone has to be your lj's jester :P

[andrastelovesu.livejournal.com]

that really is a great icon.

[(Anonymous)]

Did you have your work saved? I've got my auto-save function set to "paranoid," and have been known to back up term papers onto other hard drives, flash drives, and email. Been down the recreate road, don't want to go back. And no, I sent no postcards while I was there.

-Daniel

[cormac.livejournal.com]

Aye, I had my work saved. You may recall I had some problems during my undergrad years with things disappearing on me. I have learned my lesson.