Blackout
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Today, around about 18:00, with Junior sitting in my lap and
working at my main computer suddenly everything went dark,
with a low iiiiiuuuuuuh the spinning rust hard disk of the HP
DC7800 "Convertible Minitower" (i have to write about it in
another post) spun down and we sat there, in darkness while
my wife let loose some vietnamese curses i haven't heard until
now.

Well, we live in an ancient house with ancient electric
cabeling, but i was really sure i exorcised most of the gremlins
out of the systems for about a year now. But, alas, here we
were in the dark.

As the lights still were on in my parents part of the house
i quickly ruled out something like a general electric blackout
(hey, with the US and Russia now being somewhat of an enemy...
who knows?) and began to disconnect cabels and shut off devices.
To make a long story (which includes myself running up and
down stairs, switiching on and of breakers) short: It was the
induction stove in our kitchen that was responsible for this
little personal sneak peak of the apocalypse. The second one
in under four years.  Just right after the guarantee expired.

Well, with the stove disconnected and the evening meal (pasta
with salmon) converted to some form of casserole in our air
fryer we made a decission: No more induction stove! Tomorrow
we will look into a bog standard cast iron stove like it
existed for about ~100 years now.