Not being one for cockamamie theories, I have not spent a lot of time planning
about today being the end of the world. On the other hand, maybe I should have
seen it as a sign of the apocalypse that Verizon worked out my FiOS issues
yesterday. Anyway, amid heavy rain and high winds, the power is out here in the
BlueTower, and what's worse, is I can't get online with FiOS even with my UPS,
so apparently power is out a local substation. In more bad luck, my laptop was
without a charge, but I've managed to fire it up using an inverter and a car
jumper box with a battery in it for this makeshift update (I won't have access
to the mail on my other machine until the power returns, so there may be some
catching up to do after this). The one lucky turn is that I am managing to
connect to an LTE tower right now, which you can't usually do around here.
Perhaps another sign of the end of days. Anyway, I'm not sure how updating will
go the rest of today if the power stays down, so we'll just have to play it by
ear.