Our electricity went out yesterday morning, due to a downed power line nearby. As hooked into electronics as my 21st century family is, it was quite an event. Pretty much everything requires juice nowadays to be entertaining or functional. Those funny looking book-things on the shelves around the house are supposed to have stories in them, but I can't really remember how to use one. Anyhow, we found to our surprise that our existence didn't immediately terminate under those primitive conditions.
Zach and I decided to play HeroScape. It was just light enough in his room to see the game. After a while, I suggested he turn on his room light so we knew when the power came back on. He got up and turned the switch on. No light, of course. Then he decided he'd rather turn on the little light on his dresser instead. He turned the first light switch off and walked to his dresser and turned on the desk lamp. LIGHT!!!
We both looked at each other like we must have lost our minds. Did the desk lamp have a battery backup or something? He went over and turned on the main room light switch again. LIGHT!!!
The power came back on in between the time he turned off the first switch and turned on the desk lamp. Go figure.
Zach and I decided to play HeroScape. It was just light enough in his room to see the game. After a while, I suggested he turn on his room light so we knew when the power came back on. He got up and turned the switch on. No light, of course. Then he decided he'd rather turn on the little light on his dresser instead. He turned the first light switch off and walked to his dresser and turned on the desk lamp. LIGHT!!!
We both looked at each other like we must have lost our minds. Did the desk lamp have a battery backup or something? He went over and turned on the main room light switch again. LIGHT!!!
The power came back on in between the time he turned off the first switch and turned on the desk lamp. Go figure.
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