As you may know (if you don't know, just go to the most recent archive for some visuals) the house I'm currently inhabiting is rotting - well, a section of it is, anyway. The Landlord has hired a part-time carpenter to do the repair work. It's pretty obvious that our repair work is low on his list of priorities, though, to his credit, he skipped a day of work at his real job to work on our project Monday. Then again, I did too.

Today, he's working on another wall, the one behind where our sofa resides. This is near a bookcase. Panic Attack #1: My books! Somebody save my books! I grabbed the one rare one in that bookcase (Great Italian Textiles, very interesting) and brought it to the relative safety of the study.

Panic Attack #2: He had to shut off a circuit breaker while he destroyed a wall. Of course, this circuit was also the one that oversees the computers. So the UPS starts beeping, doing its job, telling me to shut things down. Only I can't shut the computers down, as the MONITORS are not on the UPS. It was kind of eerie how my B-52s cd was continuing to play. Anyway, with great trepidation, I turned them off at their respective main power switches. Then I cleaned my new ice skates and looked for a good salad recipe in my cookbooks.

Power has been restored - thankfully, my computer seems to be okay. Fortunately I'm a firm believer in Control-S, so I don't think I lost a lot of work. As long as the file's not corrputed, which has been known to happen on occasion. I hope Jeff's computer is in similar good shape.