Rant number 120
When I got from band at around 2pm this afternoon - there was no power. I then went out to town quickly to pick up some bits and bobs and there was still no power.
There was then no power still - until around 20 past 9 this evening. A crippling 7 hours without light (and today you needed it, what a dark and miserable day it has been!) and without heating and without any of the forms of entertainment I would usually use.
I read my book in the subdued light and had a nap. The books good, but the subdued light hurt my eyes! All in all, it shocks me how awfully reliant I am upon technology.
And the same I am sure can be said for all of you.
Firstly, half of us live half in the real world and half on the internet. The internet needs power to work.
Then there is half of the entertainments that we use; Computers, TV's, Laptops, Games Consoles - it all needs powers to work. When did I become so glued to the mains?
Even the things I like to do which are analogue: books, magazines, boardgames - that kind of thing I mostly do in artificial light. On a grey and gloomy day like today you need light to do anything and I have no means of making light beyond electrics and candles.
Lets face it, candles are lovely for making your living room smell nice, but are not a suitable method for illuminating a room really. Certainly not facilitating the reading of a book.
It makes you wonder what would happen if there really was a paradigm shift one day and our current methods of power creation went away. We'd soon come a cropper I'll tell you that!
Rant over.
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