Yesterday realizations during the rotational blackouts
Yea, so it finally happened yesterday. Blackout around 3pm, good thing my work ends in 4pm. I hurried connected my laptop and wifi router to my power station and setup the emergency fan next to it. I was working normally.
Then found out 3 of my co workers are dealing with the same problem. They couldn't work and will be waiting until 7pm when the power comes back on. I'm glad I bought and invested on a power station. Its was expensive, took me a while to decide, and a while to get delivered. It was worth it.
As a person living alone, the only thing to do is to always be prepared. Fortunately I had the capacity to buy, though I feel bad for other people who doesn't. Who doesn't have a choice. Who is like me working remotely and whose kind of work cannot be done in a coffee shop or in a public wifi. I realized more how unreliable our government is. These things wouldn't happen if we have smart leaders. Sadly its survival of the fittest out here.
I was planning to work overtime too, but I didn't want to push it. Who knows how the blackout would last really? Maybe save the reserve to power fans when I sleep. I logged off my work and decided to jog outside instead. If I'm gonna be sweating, it'll be on my own terms. Finished my 10k steps and came back home when power was restored. Recharged my gadgets then took a shower. All was good and I like my independency and/or how prudent I'm being with all of this but I hate that this would be a norm. Why do ordinary people have to engineer around failures this much? Resiliency is good, but man, this is tiring as fuck.