. . but my electric power failed during high winds at 6am on Wednesday, and didn't come back on line until mid-day Thursday. I had to stay in bed for 14 hours between dark and early light Thursday morning.

I turned the phone system UPS back on (I turn it off immediately at any power failure) and got my messages. SoCal Edison sent me 5 notices as to when power would be restored - non of which came true. After the "power will be restored at 2:00 am Thursday" proved false, there were no more.

I had gone shopping and was preparing a recipe. I put a tray of meatballs in the freezer and wondered "What is that sound". Then I realized the sound was from the refrigerator. I thought, "How can the fridge be making noise without electricity" - then I realized, the power must have finally come back on!

Then I found I had no internet. Found that my fancy router had not come on. As my clients always tell me, "But it was working fine yesterday". Unplugged it and plugged it back in a couple of times and it came on.

I attribute this to the law of "the perversity of inanimate objects". I once had some engineer tell me that "Inanimate objects can not be perverse". I told him "Clearly, you have never worked in a quality control department".

Other immutable laws: "It worked during the test." and "If it can fail it will fail - during the demonstration".