This is going to be a summary because I just fucking wrote 2 pages and the browser reloaded the page which cleared it all. So FUCK!
Anyway. I missed lunch because I was so busy working out at the warehouse today that by the time I got a break, the only cafe in the area had stopped cooking food. Which wouldn\'t have been a problem except that I was using the ATM in the cafe and someone else came in and bought any of the food that I was going to buy.
So I got home and it\'s cold and miserable and raining a little (apparently a lot less than it was raining everywhere else in the city) and I was just tired and hungry so I was laying on my couch and watching cartoons and I fell asleep. By the time I woke up it was pretty late, about 8pm or something, and I decided that I had really better make some food, so I put on more cartoons and start heating up a curry for dinner when suddenly the microwave and the rice cooker shut off. A quick investigation later and I decide a fuse is blown so I grab a torch and run downstairs to check out the power box. Turns out we have the old ceramic fuses here and there\'s no fuse wire down in the box so that\'s a complete loss. Just as I\'m heading back upstairs the door must have blown shut which suddenly became a huge issue. Lately I\'ve been having a problem where the lock on the door doesn\'t release when you turn the handle from the inside. So now I\'m locked out as well. Because I\'d just quickly ducked out I didn\'t have my phone or keys. Oh yeah, and I was wearing nothing but a pair of boxer shorts. Did I mention it was still raining? And that the only other person with keys is an hours drive away?
So a bit of quick thinking later and I managed to break in, (ask me in person if you want to hear that hillarious story but I\'d rather not put details on the net), keeping in mind that my unit isn\'t on the ground floor. So I got back in, still without power in the kitchen, and then the beeping stopped. As it turns out, on that phase of power there is 3 power points in the kitchen and 2 in the laundry. So the server gear down there was running off a 1.5kVA UPS which at a guess has dead or dying batteries. So now my emails and NAS array have shut off.
Going to the supermarkets here is basically useless as they don\'t have the old fuse wire, not to mention that the people working there aren\'t old enough to even know what it is. Finally I had to swap the fuse from the stove to the normal power phase so that I get power back on for the server gear. I\'m just waiting the next 2 or 3 days for the resync on the software RAID-5 array.
Memo to self: Call the real estate and ask for the door lock to be fixed and if they have any suggestions as to where I can find the fuse wire.At least it\'s an amusing story to tell people how I was locked out in the cold and rain in my underwear.
Maz
