Last night I had just finished a grueling mission on Prototype that took me almost a week to complete (stupid glass wall) and saved... then all the electricity in the apartment went out. Jake went downstairs to the fuse box and I followed behind. I looked around and noticed something very odd. Neighbors. They were all peering out their doors. The only time we ever see any of our neighbors is during some sort of emergency. I noticed the darkened rooms behind them and asked if their electricity went out too. Yeppers... all out. I found it funny that Jake was the only guy to know you should check the fuse box. Heh. I went out front to tell him it wasn't just us and noticed neighbors peering out of apartment complexes on either side of us. Lovely... An hour later I got through to the DWP only to hear that it was some sort of short (possibly by the fire but they didn't know) and the ETA for the power to be back up was ten hours. TEN HOURS!?!?! Yeah, we contemplated grabbing ice and figured against it. The traffic outside was nuts from all the people using our street to get home after the fire blocked the normal route. Instead we kicked back, chatted and waited for the sun to go down. At about 9:52pm the power came back on. So much for the ten hour eta. the power outage did remind me of one thing... we totally need to get a corded phone. Cordless is great until you realize you need the baby and there's no dial tone.

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