Bryan D. Brown

So today was a great day.

The day started with a call from work that the power went out at the studio. Not a good start, since that also means that the back-up generator didn’t kick on. This is the back-up generator that we used to maintain, but don’t any longer after we were promised that other people would handle it. I probably shouldn’t mention that since these other people agreed to maintain the generator, it has failed to start on at least three other occassions. So I won’t.

By 11:30am, we got a hold of a smaller generator and ran an extension chord down to the studio. We could only power a small amount of equipment - an 4 input auxillary mixer, a portable CD player, a laptop, and the studio transmitting and monitoring equipment. We ran this way until power was restored at 3pm.

I always wonder what won’t work properly when the power is restored. In this case, it was out e-mail server, which decided to not connect to any e-mail client. That took about two hours to get back up.

So yeah, it was great day. At least the “sun will come out tomorrow”.