bktheirregular | You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Last year, in response to a self-inflicted power outage that lobotomized my computer, I invested in an uninterruptible power supply. Basically, a big honkin' battery that sits under my desk, and provides power to my computer if I suffer a power outage, long enough for it to undergo a controlled shutdown.

This morning, at about five, the apartment suffered a momentary blackout.

And my uninterruptible power supply ... was interrupted.

That, in itself, was annoying. What graduated it to worthy of a fit of screaming obscenities was the God-alone-knows-how-many-decibels alarm that started screaming and would ... not ... shut ... up.

I powered down the UPS, only to discover that I couldn't power it up again, either.

So it looks like I may have to do some shopping. And carrying a battery backup from a store down by Syntagma to my apartment halfway up Likavitos is a [censored by the Department of Homeland Security].

Those suckers are heavy.