I am sick of power outages in this city. We have our electricity cut off every single day, lasting up to 4-5 hours; kind of kills my productivity -- my UPS systems (one for each computer in the appartment) run out in about an hour, so the rest of the time we have to sit here with candles (it's only fun for first 3-5 times ;). I've heard this is because we have a major elections coming, and one of the opponents to the current major (people are not too satisfied with him) heads the local branhc of a nation-wide electricity company -- so the current government are organizing the power blackouts to make people angry and not vote for him. Sounds pretty absurd, however knowing Russia I won't be surprised if it's the truth. ;)
On the other hand, yesterday (when half of my work day went off with the power), I looked in the window and saw northern lights -- first time I ever saw these in St.Petersburg! Quite a stunning view, the whole sky was stripey. I took some pictures, but none of them came out well (crappy cheap digital camera ;).
Any way, sometimes power outages are fun. I saw northern lights, and went to bed early. ;)
Posted by slava at 04:45 AM
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So Slava... ~Why~ do you ~want~ to live in Russia? I don't quite understand...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 6, 2003 5:30 PMHey Slava! Never apoligise for your stories about Russia and life there. I enjoy reading about your daily trials with property and electricity, as much as I value the work you do for Unsanity.
Will we aver hear from Mrs. Slava or Kid Slava? Are they Macophiles too?
I am surprized your business cannot get you a visa! Why is it that criminals never seem to have any trouble getting what they want, but the ordinary person can't go to a Mac conference? That is annoying!
Sincerely,
Carol, NYC, USA
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