The downtrodden, powerless masses

Well, powerless, anyway. There was a massive power failure in the neighborhood of our lab at about 1:40. As the scope of it became clear I shut things down (except for one server box that I'd forgotten about... oops!) while my manager rounded up people so we could hold our 2:00 meeting a little early in the naturally-lit conference room.

Now I'm home. Before I left this morning I'd gotten the new router properly configured, so I now no longer have to worry about the laptop and its easily-removed power cord, and the other denizens of the household no longer have to sip the net through a soda straw. I'll need to install the new, twice-as-big backup drive in the fileserver sometime today, but that should be pretty easy (he says). It may require a couple of minutes with a rescue disk to reconfigure the bootloader, but I can handle that.