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This is what it looked like when I got to work this morning.
What is it? A surprise eclipse? Being sucked into a black hole? Sudden blindness?
No. The power was out. This was unexpected, seeing as how all the streetlights in the area were working and other businesses were up and running. But not us. We are apparently in a mystery pocket where the power goes out without any reason. The power company recording nicely informed us that the problem would be fixed by 2 this afternoon.
Conscientious as I am about not offending coworkers and trust as I do the power company's expediency, I took my bike light into the bathroom and went through my morning changing/freshening up ritual. As the bosses tried in vain to talk with an actual human, all us employess milled around by the open door musing over life, work, and pregnancy (a lot of people know a lot of people--and sheep--about to have babies, I guess).
Half an hour later, no further information could be acquired from the power company, and the big boss told us to go home and call for an update around 11. So I took my bike light back into the bathroom and changed back into my damp riding clothes and headed back for home, dreams of freshly baked cookies and knitting progress at the fore of my mind.
About a mile down the road, a coworker pulls up next to me and shouts that the power is back on. She was told to go drive around and find me so I wouldn't have to bike all the way home before having to turn around and come back. She did say that she would play dumb if I wanted to pretend we never met, but I knew a phone message would await me, and then I'd just drive across town again.
So back to work, back to the bathroom (without bike light), back in work clothes, and back to the grindstone. Three cheers for a bona-fide, no backsies, really gonna happen holiday approaching!
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