We need to be unitedly illuminated

So, yesterday, the power went out around 8:10am at work. The back-up generators kicked on automatically for our computers, except not all the computers stayed on. WTF? That's not supposed to happen. The computers are NEVER supposed to go off in a power outage. Hmmm.

The lights kick back on (along with the dead computers) a few minutes later. For about 30 seconds. Then they go off again. Strange.

I was one of the lucky (ha!) few that still had a computer running. Then we found out part of our program wasn't working, so even us lucky (ha!) few couldn't work. So, naturally, I surfed the web.

30 minutes later, and at least the program was back up and running, so us lucky (ha!) few were up and running as well. We worked and worked and worked until the back-up generator was actually TURNED OFF by the power company. No lights, no puters, no scary glow coming out of the cubicles from the monitors. Nada.

Did I mention no air-conditioning since 8:10 as well? And we're on the 4th floor. And our windows don't open.

So we all stood around in the dark, sweating profusely, chatting, and praying the power company could fix the building's boo-boo.

At 1:45pm, everything came back on. And there was much rejoicing.

Today, it's like an icebox in here. No wonder why the power goes out so often.

Oh, and last time (since this was like the 4th time so far this year), some poor woman was stuck in the elevator for an hour. Awful.