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Hhhmm...... Lets explore this system...

While approaching XY the science vessel SNS Gagarin suddenly received a glancing hit by several passing mass driver rounds. The projectiles were billions of years old and based on their trajectory they appear to be stray rounds fired from a neighbouring galaxy.....

Shit ... stellaris (game on steam) got me there so much... I love it. ;)

Meanwhile, yesterday i got woken up by a BANG. Followed by a partial power outage i then identified to a tripped breaker killing my workstation and anything else relevant in my combined living and sleeping room... WTF?

Turns out, this contraption i used to hold a window in a specific state of "a litte bit open":

Image of a transformator for a old emergency lighting/power system. 8.9Kg/416.67pound - configured/wound for 380volt three phase on the primary and 60volt ac on the secondary (and probably in reverse in case of mains fault.)

a transformator from a old emergency power system, weight about 8,9 kilogram (416.67 pound), failed on me.

We had a bit of a storm and in addition to getting other windows slammed shut because of the wind. Nature actually managed to shove this hefty trafo block from the marble window sill down to the ground.

Hitting this innocent and unsuspecting power strip:

shattered remains of a european (german) style power strip.

which totally gave up instantly and resorted to remain in a shattered state. Which _FOR_ _SURE_ created a short and tripped the breaker.

Let me tell you, in such a situation, you don't need any coffee to be truly awake.... On top of that, DO NOT JUST GO AND GRAB THE METALLIC OBJECT FROM THAT PILE.. Even in my whacky state of being just woken up, i had the brain to first check my breaker board and see with a relief, that there was actually a tripped breaker and so it should be safe to disconnect the power strip and whatever was connected to it, grab the trafo to put it back up on the window sill ... and search for a suitable power strip to rebuild the connection .. especially powering my ethernet switch.

While still powered down, i decided to quickly clean some dust-gunk from my cpu cooler which i should have done several months ago ... and after resetting the breaker, took on the endeavor to reboot my workstation into a usable state......

All in all ... a ... funny experience.... Not necessarily a nice one.

But hey...... nothing really bad happened...

Except to the mentioned SNS Gagarin from above.

So ....... to make long story short..

If you wonder where i am, because i'm not posting or resharing here:

I'm right at home, on my computer, managing my 'Commonwealth of Meh' in #Stellaris. ;)

#Game #BANG #transformer #storm #breaker #RandomShit ;)

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