Precautionary
Dec. 20th, 2012 09:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceFor the last couple of days, there have been big signs in the street, Do Not Park Here! We Will Tow You!
This morning, PG&E (the power company, for my non-CAian readers) have parked a huge cherry-picker right outside the house. I dunno, maybe everything will be fine - but I believe all the elecktrickery comes in via overhead cables, rather than being dug into the ground.
So I am preparing for emergency evacuation to the Palace Cafe, with laptop - and because I am in a cautious mood, I have fired up the laptop here to let it grab current work off Dropbox, in case the wifi at the cafe isn't working (as it sometimes doesn't). I might even power down the desktop before I go, in anticipation of loss of power, rather than deal with the consequences after (tho' I find the consequences remarkably light, after a blackout; Linux does tend to just take care of everything, and put it all back where it was when the lights went out).
All my ducks are in a row, I tell you. All of 'em. Hell, I'm even kinda prepared for nothing to happen at all. (Tomorrow's the 21st, isn't it? Maybe this is a dry run.)
[EtA: okay, now they're being noisy. I'm off.]
This morning, PG&E (the power company, for my non-CAian readers) have parked a huge cherry-picker right outside the house. I dunno, maybe everything will be fine - but I believe all the elecktrickery comes in via overhead cables, rather than being dug into the ground.
So I am preparing for emergency evacuation to the Palace Cafe, with laptop - and because I am in a cautious mood, I have fired up the laptop here to let it grab current work off Dropbox, in case the wifi at the cafe isn't working (as it sometimes doesn't). I might even power down the desktop before I go, in anticipation of loss of power, rather than deal with the consequences after (tho' I find the consequences remarkably light, after a blackout; Linux does tend to just take care of everything, and put it all back where it was when the lights went out).
All my ducks are in a row, I tell you. All of 'em. Hell, I'm even kinda prepared for nothing to happen at all. (Tomorrow's the 21st, isn't it? Maybe this is a dry run.)
[EtA: okay, now they're being noisy. I'm off.]