I don't know if I mentioned this or nor already but they're building a new building at the EBI to alleviate the chronic shortage of office space. As such, parts of the grounds are now a construction site.
Today, a contractor cut through a power cable so everything at work ground to a complete halt as UPSes started chirping their doom-and-gloom birdcalls. When the switches for the phones and network ran out of juice, everybody decided to call it quits and go home. I thought I could go home and finish working on the presentation I'm supposed to be giving tomorrow morning.
Except that apparently, that power cable is more important than I thought cause we don't have any electricity at home at the moment. The only reason I can get online at present is because my laptop is battery powered and I have a USB modem. This, however, will not last for ever.
We are not amused.