got power?

Well, that depends. Over the past week the power supply has been less and less stable. We've had the power go out a few times at work since I've been here. It was usually once every couple of days. A nuisance, but bearable. It died a few times while I was at home on the weekends too, but it was only for a few hours in the morning. This past week has been everyday, several times per day. The annoying part is that it hasn't been fully going out... just dimming enough for my computer to reset itself. Great fun when you've got work to do. My auto-save is now set for every 4 minutes. When it does go out all the way it takes about a minute for the building's generator to kick in. Then when the main power comes back on, they turn off the generator and things go off again before coming back on. After the second or third time this happens it gets hard not to yell out a few choice words. We have three extra battery backups for the computers but none of them work. It's all part of the adventure of living in Uzbekistan.


a power outage in ferghana