You’re blasting away the last article before winter break, hoping to head home as soon as possible, and then wish to run off to the slopes for some snowboarding or skiing, or off to the coffee shop for a specialty hot chocolate with whip cream: then the power shuts off.
You didn’t save the file for a couple of hours, don’t know what to do, and probably don’t even have a candle because you only moved into the apartment a year ago, even as early as last September. Panic.
Despair and Darkness.
What do you do?
Well, since that is a hypothetical, one of the first things to do would be to have the conscientiousness to prepare ahead of time with some materials such as candles, not just for romantic nights, lighters, manually chargeable flashlights.
Then there are the things to do if these kinds of accidents happen in any case, charge your laptop, if you have one, and your phone, so that if and almost inevitably when this does happen you have some digital entertainment to prevent boredom.
If you were working on your laptop and the battery isn’t terrible, then you have the battery power to help you finish the article and then send it off once the power is back on rather than losing the article altogether and having to restart once the power is back on.
For your phone, if you have some fun games, you could play them on the apps that you downloaded ahead of time, which can help with the boredom of no electronics during a power outage. You can get lost in Mario or some other game that can pass the time. Also, you could text friends if you have a good plan and then organize something while you all wait.
That’s really it. Be prepare, have alternative lights, get your storage units for relevant electronics in order so that you can be able to continue your work or be able to have some fun or organize some fun by yourself or with others.
That’s it.
About the author:
Scott Douglas Jacobsen founded In-Sight Publishing and In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal. He works for science and human rights, especially women’s and children’s rights. He considers the modern scientific and technological world the foundation for the provision of the basics of human life throughout the world and advancement of human rights as the universal movement among peoples everywhere.
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