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Well, everything seems to have come up as expected. The UPS lasted long enough for the few hosts we left up, so that was nice. The power guy was right on the money, power was back on at ~10:45am.

Went and talked with a fellow from Pacific Power. His early call for the power is 11am.

On another note I found out all about the tunnels under campus. Now I really want to put together a lug event touring around down there. Maybe Tom will have some insight in how to make that happen.

Time to eat a granola bar.

Then it happened, the power went out in an instant. It didn’t fade away, it just went right out as expected. It even happened around the expected time. The basement machine room stayed on generator as planned. I was able to powerdown all the boxes with plenty of time to spare. I guess to sum things up, everything is going as it should.

Probably the most exciting thing is using my laptop in the dark. Its like I am in a high profile fort (my office) doing a top secret reconnaissance mission for the soviets.

When I walked out of my dorm room this morning the world looked small. It was because the sunrise had created a red and orange backdrop in the fog so vivid that I felt I could touch it. During the entire walk to Kerr I tried to think up something to blog regarding the sunrise. That came out pretty well in my opinion.

Anyway… I sit here in office waiting for the power to go out. Scott left me with a sweet flashlight, so I am pretty pumped to use that. The anticipation is getting to me. What is going to happen? Is it going to be on time? Are any of our hosts going to lose an MBR? Will I be able to click “Publish” before we lose it all?

All of these questions answered and more, when the power comes back.