I do know I'm seriously pissed off.

I will definitely need some electricity - sewing machines and computer are essential, microwave and fridge very nice. Lights also essential.

I've brought up the idea of treadle sewing machines a few times. Too much exercise. Not real practical as a full solution - modern machines are just too nice. Still, there are times when it would be interesting - probably 70% of what I do with the machine works just as well on The Tank - a WWII vintage machine that can only do a stright stitch but kicks ass on those. And has kind of a neat user interface feature - no reverse control, just a stitch length control that goes below zero.

Computer, well I guess I could go laptop and charge up at home.

For lights, there are some obvious options but I doubt that the fire marshal will let me do anything involving fire.

Maybe I can do some kind of generator, but it would have to be clean and quiet and not insanely expensive.

I can't afford to get too obviously psycho about this, we are in a definite small town mode here, and the Chamber of Commerce people are being very, very nice so far. That niceness is a critical piece of our business model.

I'll probably just get over it.