Have you ever heard of My Milk Toof? It’s kind of hard to explain, sort of an episodic comic, but the artist uses sculpted teeth as the main characters. It’s becoming very popular lately. I think I myself found about it via Cute Overload, but it’s been posted to many other “cute” blogs, and stuff.

It is beyond adorable, easily can make anyone’s heart melt. The artist just released a smallish book, so I had to buy one. For support to the artist, and to have something tangible as well.

And a nice surprise is some sort of “post card” or something. They almost look like stills that the artist was using, but that’s probably just me making supposition. They’re sealed in plastic, and I don’t want to open it.

The book is currently sold out, but I really recommend you subscribe to the RSS feed so you can get the latest news as soon as possible.

I am not superstitious, at least in this regards. But today is Friday the 13th, and it certainly seems to be living up to the legend.

A power transformer caught on fire, knocking out most of, if not all of, Morristown. I’d estimate at least 5 square miles. The news estimates about 12k customers.

But that’s Ok. We have a natural gas generator at work which should kick in when we lose commercial power. Should. It didn’t.

But that’s Ok. We have a UPS which should hold us, until either power comes back, or the generator kicks in.

Problem with that is, it’s an 80KVA UPS, and under load provides about 10 minutes backup, normally sufficient for the generator to kick on, or commercial power to return.

I sat in the server room reading off from 10% to zero, in less than three minutes, at which point, we went dark.

5 minutes later, the generator kicks in. Still no estimate on commercial power, but I’m not worried. At this scale, they’re working as hard as they can, and they don’t need me asking for updates every 5 minutes.

So, how close to real-life is this? Starr is on the phone, Ghost is asleep on the bed, and I’m glued to the TV.

Got one. What else can I say?

I need to post this and get it off my chest…

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Nov 1 is Kitty’s birthday, and all the servers seem to be having big events. SEA’s started at 8PM SG/MY time. That is 7AM my time, so that was perfect for me.

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