The power is out. I have 6 hours and fifty-nine minutes left on my computer battery. Ohps, it just went up a minute and then down a minute. We’re at 6:58 people. And now suddenly 6:44. Ok, that is getting annoying. To me. I am annoying myself.
So, obvious ponder of the moment: we are so freakin’ dependant on power! After watching the horror of my TV switching off as if it had a mind of it’s own, my first inclination was to go and check the internet to see how long the power would be out. Yeah, not happening. The WiFi dispenser, as I like to call it, is plugged into the wall. So. I’m thinking to myself, well, no bother I can’t watch TV, I’ll just go and watch some hulu on my laptop. How funny for me to have this thought, as if the internet I was going to use before to check the news was somehow different from the one used to supply me my hulu.
So phones still work right? Wait, let me check. NO! They don’t. A rotary dial would though, right? Why don’t I have a rotary dial somewhere? What if there is an emergency? I can’t find my cell phone in this dark madness, and what happens when it runs out of juice? What if the candles I’ve lit burn the house down? 6:47 now which is kinda odd, eh? Obviously I’m not that distraught about the emergency....and now 7:16! Blast! What is going on macbook? Has the lack of power made you go nutty? Or is that just me?
Seriously though, I hate to say it, and actually don’t even want to type it, but wouldn’t this be the perfect time for a massive terrorist attack? These are the things running through my head. Ugh. But, I mean, I really have extremely limited contact with the outside world right now. My cell phone, to be exact, which as I stated earlier I can’t find, and it is kind of a piece of shit that runs out of power after about 45 minutes of talking. No phone. No internet. I literally don’t know what’s going on right now. I don’t know why the power is out, when it will be restored, if aliens are invading, nor can I call 911 when I fall down the stairs later in the horrible, horrible darkness.
My cat almost just licked the flame of the candle. Weird.
Anyhow, the thing is, I don’t want to sound like a whiny biznatch that can’t survive without hulu. I don’t feel that way. I just can’t think past that way right now because my brain is still in ‘check the internet every hour’ mode. Let’s face it, a few days no power, we’d all be reading constantly and outside doing activities and finding plenty of happiness in the world around us. Talking to our neighbors more, digging through the attic for the old rotary dial, or going to Target to buy one, if they even have them anymore.
My general point from my ‘the power is out disaster’ frame of mind is that we are SO dependant on power that even if we don’t mind it being off, we are in danger with it off. At least at a major disadvantage.
Well, I guess its time for bed. I miss you TV.
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