Around 10am yesterday my flat had a power cut. I was out at work, of course, but I know this because when I got home I found my microwave needed its time resetting and my computers claimed only to have been up for a few hours. (Also my alarm clock lost its alarm settings and enabled both of its independent alarms for midnight, which was very loud and particularly startling.)

And my firewall machine didn't turn itself back on again. Investigation shows that the power supply is at fault, so it'll be a trip via Maplin on the way home to pick up a new one.

I'm getting sick and tired of this. I've already spent a week without Internet connectivity at home recently, due to the lightning strike blowing up my cable modem; and I've already had to replace a power supply in one of my computers due to the same lightning strike. Now another power supply has gone, and in the process it's cut me off from the Internet again, and I'm getting cross.

It seems plausible to me that this isn't in fact coincidence, and that the same lightning strike that caused all the recent hassle was also the cause of the current outage. I've had power cuts before and things don't generally go pop when the power comes back on, but this is my first power cut since the lightning strike, and I wouldn't have a hard time believing that the power surge had nearly wrecked my firewall's power supply and that the dropout this morning was the last straw.

It's getting close to the last straw for me, too. If anything else of mine blows up in the near future I'm really going to lose my temper. If I meet Thor in the afterlife, I think I'll taser him.