We had one of those, once or twice. Someone got fired [possibly an engineer] and now we have huge back up generators which switch over seamlessly and keep the PC network and enough lighting on to ensure business is uninterrupted. Coffee machines, elevators and escalators are of course surplus to requirements, even if you do work on the ninth floor 😉
the other side of the mountain 
fuckit. we never get power outages. Bloody parliamentary power grid. wanna go hooooooooome!
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i love living in south africa…never a dull moment!! good one kyk!
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Hahahaha, sorry, and yes to the expense of yourself versus the power outages – but this is your best one yet.
Love it. Where did you blog from?
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Teehee – my office would be the same, the assumption that you could work in the dark without any computer access and still create the perfect show 🙂
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“Help me look for my pencil…”. Is that a euphemism?
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betenoir: This was less of an outage and more of a stupidage. Most organisations have those.
stef: Never? Been to Home Affairs lately?
peas: It’s a retrospective piece. Power’s back on.
divine miss M: I’m often required to work in the dark – metaphorically speaking, of course.
mrs B: Maybe.
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We had one of those, once or twice. Someone got fired [possibly an engineer] and now we have huge back up generators which switch over seamlessly and keep the PC network and enough lighting on to ensure business is uninterrupted. Coffee machines, elevators and escalators are of course surplus to requirements, even if you do work on the ninth floor 😉
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Pencil? Hmmm, ummm, er ….
Don’tcha mean “the flashlight?”
Bright smooches,
The Tart
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electrifying writing, Kyk
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Definitely your best work yet. Everytime I ring my folks in George they tell me their power is out. Gives new meaning to “Deepest, darkest Africa”!
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parenthesis: You have coffee machines on the 9th floor?
the tart: Well, I don’t like to brag…
terri: Thanks. You’re pretty switched-on yourself.
del: I always knew there was a Telkom / Eskom conspiracy.
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That’s NOT my pencil!
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Looks like an early start to a long weekend!
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No point in going home, then, is there? Unless you get a different brand of dark at home.
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In Europe and America one gets a blonde moment, in Africa one gets a black out!
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dolce: It isn’t?
revo: Hah! More like the harbinger of really long day to make up the time lost.
ol’ hoss: I have a much better quality of dark at home.
sonkind: The thing to remember is that it’s better to be pissed off than pissed on.
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Be careful to differentiate being your flashlight and you fleshlight!
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revo: Don’t worry, I won’t make a silly mistake like that. Again.
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of course it won’t affect the deadline! super kyk still has a pencil!!!
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angel: I do? Where did you find it?
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