Heh. I bet for everyone else in this part of town, that power cut was an inconvenience…

… but not me. I'd been meaning to switch round some N-way power adapters in my flat anyway – change a 4-way to an 8-way in the study to be able to plug more things in, move the 4-way into the kitchen so the microwave can be somewhere more sensible and the power cable will still reach, that sort of thing – and I hadn't yet got round to actually powering the computers down to do the job. So when the power went off while I was slumping in front of the DVD player, I grabbed a torch, made all the changes, and had just got the last of the bits and pieces plugged back together by the time it came back on. I call that thoroughly good timing on the part of the power company. :-)