A Devolting Development
Category: Kitchen Sink...
Posted Tuesday, November 22, 2005 at 10:43 AM [GMT-6]

Update: Following a power outage of almost another hour, plus another 20 minutes for the systems to re-boot, MLB was able to resume the exam where she'd left off...and pass it! (She's so smart.) Three parts down, one to go.

I don't know what's going on with our power grid this morning, but my UPS has kicked in a half dozen times over the past hour. Nothing major -- not even enough to reset the clock on our overly-sensitive microwave oven -- but it's dimmed the lights and I'm sure my computer would have gone down without the UPS backup.

However, it's apparently worse in other parts of town. MLB just called on her cell phone to say that she's been sitting in front of a dark monitor for the past twenty minutes. Normally, that wouldn't be a huge deal; she would just switch to another task. Unfortunately, the monitor she's staring at is in the test center where she was almost halfway through the third part of the CMA exam. After spending about twenty hours in preparation over the weekend, in addition to all the studying she did up to that point, she's not exactly thrilled at the prospect of having to reschedule...or having to think about it over the Thanksgiving holiday.

And, this just occurred to me. Since the exam is administered online, I wonder if her progress up to the point where the power went off was saved. If the power comes back up and she finds that she's got to start over, I pity the fool who was messing with the power lines if she ever tracks 'em down!