Power outages, from 5 minutes to 5 hours, test our real strengths as to our self-sufficiency and self-reliant skills and abilities. Sadly reflected on our dependency on false and controlled stimulation and it's related infrastructure. Ever notice the severe difference of reaction between Farang and Thai as such applies to electric power outages, systematic water flow cut-offs, and any other sort of convenient infrastructure that forces us {some} to become dependent upon?

We lost power yesterday at 15.00 and got it back at 20.00.

I went to bed at 22.00 and the power went off again at midnight (24.00)

I had a bag packed and was ready to escape to a hotel for this night,when it suddenly came back on at 20.00 ,so it has been gone for 20 hours (last period).

In the mean time I've been busy walking our 14 dogs for an hour each, but since I don't have a MP3 player, I've spent nearly 6 hours doing crosswords.

I hope it (the power) will last the night!