power outage, karaoke machine

 during the first half of the day at work there was a power outage. i was in the hall, ready to do a walk to check for deliveries, when the power went out. so i saw the emergency lights from the exit signs pop on. i milled around a little, but it was hard for me to be idle. i saw some leave the building and decide to work from home. i called my boss, who advised me to take an early lunch. what i did was get caught up on the things i could do manually, such as get inter-office checks into envelopes. i found a place with light, the safe deposit box area, to do so. thankful the check shop door is battery operated, as i could still get in there, where my coat is. my computer was still running, i found out, but losing battery power as it was not being constantly charged. after a while the emergency lights went out in the shop, so i didn't want to sit there if it was mostly dark except for the light from a copier in the corner. so i sat in the branch area, where some of the branch employees got out a karaoke machine. i was hearing music and didn't know at first where it was coming from, so i had to check it out. there was three text messages about it from the branch manager. i sent three text messages in the breakroom to people i hadn't heard from lately, including a college roommate, as it was hard to know how to fill in the time. after about two hours, the power was back on. my boss saw the texts from the branch manager, and i said i had just logged back in and would do my best to get caught up. what helped was that it was a fairly low volume day, i had already printed the fargo files by then. what didn't get done i can do the next day, mostly scanning incoming mail. the things that needed to go out still did, namely the checks i printed. one colleague didn't understand, was getting impatient when waiting for a check copy. when i responded i said there was a delay due to a power outage, i was getting ready to handle it when the power went out. so i spoke of it when i performed at an open-mic in the evening, one of two bank stories. later on i went on a walk and found 1 dollar 58 cents. guess i did snack a little during the power outage, a small bag of popcorn, got it from the vending machine in the morning before the power went out. i still waited to take lunch as i heat up soup in the microwave oven, and as expected it sounded like nearby businesses such as the subway and the mcdonald's also lost power. so my options were limited, and i didn't want to leave the building that bad when i was unsure if i could get back in with my employee badge. the 'big bang theory' rerun was when sheldon broke into penny's apartment and started cleaning while she was sleeping. the second was a rare one i didn't want to watch, so i switched over to 'me tv' and watched 'mash', with james cromwell as a guest star, bj's friend. then it was back over to fox-9 plus for the news.