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It never fails, you want a good night of gaming and something happens to ensure that won’t happen. Having just gotten Age of Conan, my husband and I were very excited to break into the game Monday night after he got back from an evening work meeting.

I was good most of the day, only hopping on the game occasionally to check if I’d sold anything on the Trade Post. I have to admit, having to run the game through Boot Camp is a heaven-sent for my work productivity. While I could hop onto World of Warcraft easily enough every 20 minutes or so (I’m a bit obsessive), the logon process is so long (restarting computer as a PC through Windows takes forever), I’m less likely to do it.

He finally arrived home just before 8 p.m. and within three minutes of him being home… we lost power. Noooo! Where we live, its unfortunately a pretty regular occurrence, and when it does happen, it’s never for a short period of time.

Much grumbling ensued and phone calls were made to the power company. Their estimate 10:30 p.m. Well, there went our evening! Yet again, something in life was telling us we had no choice but to step away from the keyboards.

Despite the initial anger caused by the power outage, we actually ended up having a good time. We decided to hang out on our front porch with a bottle of wine, and before we knew it, everyone else who lives in our building (four apartments) joined us. It was the first time we’d actually gotten to hang out with them apart from the fleeting “Hey! How’s it going?”

Some of the work that was going on was right near our place and we’d occasionally send someone over to try and bribe the workers to work faster. It was an annoying sweltering evening and sitting outside was nothing any of us had had in mind. Turns out the various transformers in our area couldn’t handle the load and they had to reroute power from other areas - I didn’t even know they could do such things. Of that though, I can’t help but fear that it’s going to continue as the summer progresses - this was just early June! We hadn’t even put in our A/C yet! What about in August when that many more people give in!?

Much to their credit, the power company was pretty spot on as the power came on at 10:45 p.m. We all said our goodbyes, happy to head back into our various air conditioned and fanned apartments.

Despite the outage, we still ended up getting a good hour-and-a-half of gaming in before we went to bed.

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