“There are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe that technology will turn on us someday and those who realize that it already has.”
— Me
We had a thunderstorm last Wednesday, one of those loud, thunderous storms I love so much, even though they tend to cause power outages. Even though it was a dark and stormy night, the power stayed did not fail.
The following evening, when the weather was beautiful, was another story.
I was just getting some chicken ready to put in the oven (electric, of course) when I heard a transformer exploding. I’ve heard that sound enough times to recognize it. About a minute later, the power blinked out for a moment, then went down. My guess is that too many people were running their air conditioners.
The power stayed out for several hours. I awoke in my room with the lights on; they were back on by 3:30 a.m. My first instinct was to tell Alexa to turn them off, but Alexa was offline. The whole internet was offline. So, I had to reset the router. Then, the Internet of Things attached to that router gave me a hard time reconnecting them all, including the Tovala oven, my Hero medication manager, and the living room lights and television, but I finally got everything turned back on.
Yeah, sometimes I think we’ve become too dependent on technology. And I’m right.