A Dependency - 08-31-13

It isn’t hot, it’s the hottest place on earth, of course, we have to stick to our superlative principle! And if it’s so warm, it has to be cold inside, but cold is boring, so it’s now about 18°C in my office in the basement. My colleague started bringing a blanket and I … got a cold.Never mind, the weather’s warm, so at some point Physics deduces a thunderstorm. But just any storm and lightning, again, would be normal. Thus, the lights went off and an interesting sound started, immediately stopped again and everything was switched back to the previous state.

That’s been the appetizer of an one-hour electric power outage. We sat in darkness with emergency lights on the corridor and smartphones as torches. Slowly all the consequences came to my mind: The fridge shut up, the dryer stopped and the water turned cold. No Internet, no TV, no connection. That was funny, but just in retrospective ;-) ... when everything worked again, taken the Internet as an exception.

Now, what to do without my social life ;-) I went to Downer’s Grove downtown where I tried to escape the rain. Haha, great idea… no chance:

I mean, everything was great: I got the bus (bus station signs are totally superfluous, by the way), found the Public Library and the post office and was not hijacked by anyone! But, still… there are more exciting places than the “City Center” of a Chicago suburb. But probably I’m just fastidious, the trip was exciting! :-)

And, did you know, that mailmen have to scan a bar code at some buildings so the can prove that they actually visited this place? Just another small part of supervision …