Insanity Ensues & Music Happens
Things have been absolutely insane since I returned from my last trip. And yesterday was no exception.
I woke up feeling uneasy. Went to check my mail - and I had no connection to my machines in the lab. Had to participate in a concall before I could run across the park and check it out.
Well, well, well. City of Montréal are putting in new sidewalks (instead of paving the roads which are in truly miserable condition). And obviously the backhoe operator had missed the fluorescent markings on the sidewalk indicating the location of the power cables going into the building where I have my office. They also hadn't marked the gas pipes. So the whole thing burst into flames. The short went all the way back to the transformer station and took that out as well. Thankfully the fire stayed outside the building.
So my office was without power for a while. I was fortunate enough that my part of the building was on a feed that hadn't been affected. So I only had power loss for a few hours. But I couldn't really run any of my machines as the air conditioning was without power.
In the evening I played a gig with Jim Bland and Thierry at The Phoenix in Ste-Anne on the West Island. After the show I was totally spent. What a day.
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