Island of the Lone Sane Thought

Well, the edge of the country.

Yesterday, while I was on the phone with subrosax, the power went out. I was right in the middle of prepping items for eBay and Etsy, so that kind of sucked.

Good thing is, Husband's grandmother had a generator system installed a couple years ago. And this thing is like a generator fairy tale--it automatically turns on when power is interrupted, and it runs on natural gas from a permanent feed. Incredible. So after about a half minute it came back on. We didn't have to do a thing. In my mind generators are messy and smelly and dangerous and necessitate going outside in the snow and kick starting them, and are more hassle than they're worth, but it turns out that my thoughts are pretty damned outdated and that the next generation of generators are pretty damned awesome.

Only drawback is that Husband's grandmother picked which circuits would run while the generator was on, and apparently she felt that the guest bedroom was important but the microwave/stove was not. Given that I've been in situations where we've lost power for three days or more, I'm not happy about not having a microwave or stove in the event that we do lose it for multiple days, though Husband assures me that because it is a gas stove (I've never used a gas stove before and know nothing about them) it is still usable with matches. So if we do lose power for a few days, we can at least use the stove. I shouldn't be whining at all, considering how awesome it is that we don't have to huddle around the fireplace like I did in my youth, but still, there's a teensy bit of worry there.

Hell, I should be absolutely ecstatic, considering that we have well water here, and that without a generator you can't flush the toilets. My parents' house routinely went without electricity for two or three days, and we had well water, and let's just say it wasn't pleasant.

I've found that there's one major advantage to having made the master bedroom the office, and made our bedroom in one of the smaller bedrooms; the generator is right below the window of the office, and the noise is pretty loud. So huzzah for that. I mean, it's still noisy, but at least it was within the realm of possibly being able to sleep instead of being within the realm of no sleep possible.

The power came back on about ten hours later, thank goodness. So now I'm going to get caught up on Etsy and eBay listings.