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That was the longest power outage since I've been here
This week's cold attack culminated today. It rained when I was falling asleep yesterday and it was raining when I woke up. However, sometime during the night this turned to ice (or snow) because there was ice slush on the wooden walkway from my staircase to the pavement. Everywhere else the rain washed it off and there was no sign of ice or even forecasted minus temperatures. But there promised ice storm must've happened somewhere because there was no power in the whole neighbourhood this morning (later I saw the fallen iced over trees on the news). So it was cold, rainy and I couldn't even make myself any tea.
So I went to work because there was light and functioning kettle. I'm working my way through a very time consuming project that has to be finished by end of next week and I already spent a week on it and it slowly drives me crazy. But I managed to get over half way through the most time consuming and work intensive part (nine hours today). The thing I've always tried to explain to my mum was that the work of biologist is much more physical than most people imagine. This project barely gives me time to look at my email but there is a lot of running around so I'm barely standing on my feet by the end of the day.
At least, after whole day of pouring rain (cold rain - it was barely 3oC), it finally stopped raining when I was going home and I saw last moments of sunset. This made me realise how much longer the days already are. Only couple of weeks left before spring equinox. And Americans are changing to Summer Time already this weekend so the days would seem even longer next week. I always say I could be leaving in the Summer Time permanently so I'm pretty happy about them doing it so early here but I don't want to get up early next week. Next week is really bad time for it.
Of course when I went home it was below 17 degrees in my apartment because the thermostat resets itself to that temperature after power outage and there was no one to set it back to anything normal.
Tomorrow - sunny and +17 outside. Later next week it's back above 20 (23 on Tuesday) and then below 0 at night. It could at least stabilise for more then half a week.
And I was so tired yesterday I forgot to change it to public again. Good thing noone cares anyway.
So I went to work because there was light and functioning kettle. I'm working my way through a very time consuming project that has to be finished by end of next week and I already spent a week on it and it slowly drives me crazy. But I managed to get over half way through the most time consuming and work intensive part (nine hours today). The thing I've always tried to explain to my mum was that the work of biologist is much more physical than most people imagine. This project barely gives me time to look at my email but there is a lot of running around so I'm barely standing on my feet by the end of the day.
At least, after whole day of pouring rain (cold rain - it was barely 3oC), it finally stopped raining when I was going home and I saw last moments of sunset. This made me realise how much longer the days already are. Only couple of weeks left before spring equinox. And Americans are changing to Summer Time already this weekend so the days would seem even longer next week. I always say I could be leaving in the Summer Time permanently so I'm pretty happy about them doing it so early here but I don't want to get up early next week. Next week is really bad time for it.
Of course when I went home it was below 17 degrees in my apartment because the thermostat resets itself to that temperature after power outage and there was no one to set it back to anything normal.
Tomorrow - sunny and +17 outside. Later next week it's back above 20 (23 on Tuesday) and then below 0 at night. It could at least stabilise for more then half a week.
And I was so tired yesterday I forgot to change it to public again. Good thing noone cares anyway.