Power Cut

Power cuts can get really long around here. The last one was longer than usual. The local electricity board told me that power was shut down for maintenance purposes in my area. Looking outside my window, I saw a few electricians servicing the transformer.



A little while later, they're still there:



They're taking an awfully long time:



And they finally get down from there, to eat:



And then they leave. But the power didn't come back. It did eventually, about an hour after those chaps left.

And College Life has been updated, after a month.

7 Songs

No, it's not a sequel/prequel to 9 songs. JJ tagged me, again. Apart from wanting this blog to be filled with such filler posts, he also wants to know the music I've been listening to, I think.

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they a’re any good, but they must be songs you a’re really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your blog along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they a’re listening to.

So, here goes:

Daft Punk - One More Time
Parlour Steps - Hero/Villian
Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Mogwai - Golden Porsche
The Decemberists - The Mariner's Revenge Song
Belle and Sebastian - For the Price of a Cup of Tea
Jethro Tull - Bouree

Right, I've got to catch the college bus in a few more minutes so here's who's being tagged, quickly:

Antickpix
Hobbes
Rads
Sandeep
TSB
Nikhil
Hannah

Best. Confirmation email. Ever.

I had decided quite some time back that if I ever got enough bob into my PayPal account, the first thing I'd do with it is get myself more music. Having obtained the necessary dough recently, I spent two days looking for music worth paying for at CD Baby. I ended up buying three albums (Hey, there was a sale). The next day, I get this email from them:

Your CDs have been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.

A team of 50 employees inspected your CDs and polished them to make sure they were in the best possible condition before mailing.

Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CDs into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.

We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved 'Bon Voyage!' to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, Monday, February 13th.

I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. We sure did. Your picture is on our wall as "Customer of the Year". We're all exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!

The kings of sweet-talking.

For the record, this post does not have a single letter typed using a physical keyboard. My keyboard's screwed.. Every key. I'm using the On-Screen Keyboard. Yes, the one in which you click letters instead of typing them.