Tuesday: a very localized power outage

[walkitout]

This kids are back in school; I got up to do my part in that process and then went back to bed. I set a second alarm, because I’d sort of like to get back to getting up and staying up, but the second alarm did not go off, because the power was out. I _thought_ this was a power outage. We had had flickers that caused the whole house to lose power. When I got up, I had to reset the kitchen stove and microwave clocks. But it was really clear that my room did not have power when the rest of the house did. Apparently, restart on one of the short outages resulted in a flipped breaker. This was all great, because it means I could have my usual breakfast (which involves electricity for the toaster oven and the electric kettle) instead of something involving the stove (which continues to be gas, and thus immune to power outages).

It definitely is moments like this that make me think really hard about how I feel about replacing the stove with an induction range. Also, the stove still works, and replacing functional equipment always requires a lot of extra thinking about tradeoffs.