Strange night, in the dark, in
the cold. I wasn't motivated to
start a fire. The power was out,
and I was tired. Looking at the
outage map, it was about to be
fixed, but it ended up being a
longer outage, almost 6 hours.

Woke up many times. I kept on
hearing her voice, as if she was
calling me. I woke up at 2:30,
then I checked the outage map,
power was to come back at
2:32. What a strange coincidence.
I waited 2 minutes, and then
power came back.

Should I get out of bed and do
something? What? I stayed in bed,
resting from the previous day.

It was a big day at one of my
client. We were switching over
from a previous network storage
to a new server. I didn't think
much about it, but it was surely
draining to be on the spot like
this.

Creating shares, creating
users and groups, allocating the
right user to the right share,
passwords, dealing with people,
updating different computer and
machines, then making sure the
rsync did it's job, closing the
previous share so no one connect
to it anymore. Setting up the
email system to send
notifications, testing,
re-testing, trying to share drive
with all the user, MacOS bugging
when trying too many time,
rebooting my computer, waiting... 

Questions, worries, wondering
what is going on. I wasn't even
sure I could pull it off. But it
all went well, everyone is happy.
I forget how it feels when you do
a good job and people are happy. I
generally just do my work and if
it works I get paid. 

When I left in a snow storm, a
young woman was outside and
called my name. She just built a
snowman and was happy with the
results. I had given her some
tattoo needles and she hasn't got
the courage to poke her skin
yet. I showed her the progress on
the Ouroboros on my hand. It's
not really impressive, but I like
it as my first tattoo on myself.
She seems happy that I spent a
bit of time chatting. She wants
to draw a circle in her hand, I
told her to start small, a little
dot or line, something simple.

Karate was nice, practicing round
house kick. I try to get the kid
to kick harder, but for some
reason they don't get the swing
of the body. Still a pretty good
class.

Coming back home, my cat had
pooed in my cactus. I guess
that's what made me not happy. I
remember now. I'll have to re-pot
the cactus, cat pee and poo
really kills your plants if you
don't take care of it.

My generator is also broken and I
don't have any way to produce
electricity apart from a couple
small solar panel and my car, it
bugs me that I can't generate
power myself. Generally I simply
start a fire in the wood stove. I
have a storage of water that can
keep me going for a few days.
With water and a source of heat,
I can cook and eat and use the
outhouse so I don't really need
power. If I had a tiny bit of
power, I could run my laptop and
my cellphone which would make me
able to work, but my solar panel
barely can sustain my phone.

A steam turbine on my wood stove
could really generate a lot of
power. Or at least a hand crank?
Or a battery pack big like a
small suitcase that is always plugged
in and that I could also carry
around when traveling as
needed... Anyway, it's nice to
see that power outage helps me
figure out how to deal with my
own power.