The past 24 hours have been.. well, interesting. Yesterday (which was a Friday, for those of you counting) I swung by my apartment to pick up my hockey gear. The elevators were not working, so I had to take the stairs. The emergency lights were on, however so were all of the main lights. My computer was still running, meaning there had been no power interruption. I shrugged, grabbed my gear, and went outside to meet Dwyer, who was waiting in his car.

I came back about an hour and a half later after playing said hockey to drop off my gear. I was not totally surprised to see the elevators still not working, the emergency lights still on, and the regular lights as well. My computer was still running. While I was in my apartment opening my bag to let it air out, the power went out. Oh well, nothing I can do about it now. I shrugged and went outside to meet Dwyer, who was waiting in his car (again). An interesting note: the main lights in the hall were still working, so it was only my unit or a set of units whose power was out.

After work a bunch of us went out for sushi, after which I arrived back at my apartment at around 8:30pm. I noticed that my super was in his office, which is rather strange for a Friday night, but not really surprising considering the strangeness of the day. The elevators were still not working, however the emergency lights had gone out, while the main lights remained active. I went up to my apartment to find that all was well. I sat down to watch CSI and right in the middle of the episode, the power went out. This was about 9:30pm, and this is when things got kind of funny.

I suppose since the emergency lights had been on all day their batteries were dead — the halls were pitch black; as in, you couldn’t see your fingers an inch from your face. I grabbed my camera and headed outside to snap some shots of an unlikely totally-dark building. Note that it was only my building — all the other buildings and street lights etc. on Bathurst were working fine. I took some shots, I missed a few really cool ones (like walking behind a person in a black hallway who was carrying a candle), and headed back to my apartment. I messed around with taking flash pictures (including some tricks I’ve picked up) for a while, but ultimately around 10:30 (with the power still out) I decided I may as well just go to sleep.

When I woke in the morning I found that the power hadn’t come back on until ~12:30am, so that’s about a 3 hour outage. Whee!

More weirdness

That’s not all, though! The water is freaking me out now. At one point yesterday (I don’t recall exactly when this was), I flushed the toilet and noticed that I did not hear the reservoir refilling. Lo, when I opened wide the cold-water tap in my sink, nothing! The hot water tap was working, but the water was stone cold. My kitchen sink (on the other side of the unit) was working fine. Later, the water began working again. This morning, however, things are curiouser and curiouser — the hot water tap is working fine, and with scalding water, however when you open the cold water tap, you get the merest of dribbles — of hot water! Sure enough, the toilet reservoir is also filling with hot water.

Sigh.. I hope this is all over soon =/