{"id":6387,"date":"2010-02-17T18:37:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T02:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=6387"},"modified":"2010-02-17T18:37:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T02:37:47","slug":"power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=6387","title":{"rendered":"Power outage"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I arrived at the office this morning, the power was out. A plane crashed just after taking off from the Palo Alto airport<\/a>, killing all three people on board (all were employees of the Tesla electric car company), clipping a power line, and apparently taking out a couple of transformers. It took all day for PG&E and the Palo Alto municipal light plant to get the power back up, but just as it was getting dark this evening the power came back on.<\/p>\n

When I first started working in churches in 1994, I had a computer on my desk, but I spent less than a third of my time working at the computer. Now I think I spend about two thirds of my time working at the computer, and I’ve gotten so accustomed to working at the computer I had to stop and think how to work without a computer. I had a curriculum planning meeting in the morning — no going online to look up curriculum resources; no bringing up the database to check enrollment trends — we had to look at actual pieces of paper and books instead of at lighted screens. Once that meeting was over, I had to figure out how to spend my day. No email, the phone system goes down without power, no electronic documents — so I did some filing, cleaned out a storage closet, wrote up next year’s curriculum grid by hand, had another meeting, talked to a couple of people who stopped by the office, took a walk, did some planning.<\/p>\n

With no phone, Web, or email all day long, I felt cut off. On the other hand, it was nice not staring into a lighted screen all day, and I realized that I wished my job did not require me to spend quite so much time using a computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I arrived at the office this morning, the power was out. A plane crashed just after taking off from the Palo Alto airport, killing all three people on board (all were employees of the Tesla electric car company), clipping a power line, and apparently taking out a couple of transformers. It took all day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6388,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387\/revisions\/6388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}