Power Cuts All the Fun

Not much happened yesterday except for a prolonged power cut and worries over the food in the fridge. When the power finally came back the voltage was too low to start the fridge. No, that's not all. The power supply to Anna's laptop short circuited. A blow to DVD watching and gaming. The voltage here fluctuates a lot. If you try and toast a piece of bread it's not enough power to make the coils glow and it stays white. In the house we have a voltage stabilizer and a battery to compensate for it but there seems to be a problem with something called "crawl current" (krypstrom)in Swedish. Anyway, it seemed like the power supply unit was blown out. The nearest Apple store is in Bangalore which is 4-5 hrs from here so we despaired. But it seems there was some kind of automatic fuse, and magically it started to work again in the afternoon. Aside from an ant extermination crusade this is pretty much all the excitement we get here right now. We got some take-out vegetable momos (a kind of dumpling) from a Tibetan restaurant in Camp 3 and the supply lasted for two days. None of the children wanted to try it, though. They sit next to me now and play games on www.hamsterpaj.net while Anna is readin about citizenship. Our Tibetan sponsor girl Tsering, nowadays a woman, is coming to visit us next weekend. She studies economics at a college in Chennai now. Tonight we have booked a room at a hotel in the nearest town, Kushalnagar, so that we can watch the WC final without any unwanted power cuts. They serve beer too. Alice has made an Italian flag but I hope France wins.