I had a power failure for about an hour this afternoon. The good news is that I have a UPS. The bad news is that DOH!, I forgot to plug the monitor into it. My three machines slowly ran out of juice, with the UPS beeping plaintively, before I had the presence of mind to climb under the snakelike pile of cables behind the desk, find the appropriate cord, and plug it in. They all died in a less than graceful manner. Fortunately, I think that everything that I’d been working on had been saved.

Not knowing how long the power would be out, I went out for a walk.

When I got back, power was back up. I nursed my Debian firewall back to life, then my Redhat network server/work station, and finally my Windoze work station. All seems to be well with the world again, but I’ve moved the monitor cable over to the right socket for next time.