Day 1354

Predictive text

It is Saturday and DTEK was supposed to have turned on the electricity one hour ago. I’m using my phone as a hotspot and want a cup of coffee, maybe two, but the thought of walking down eight flights of stairs and visiting Space Coffee a couple of blocks away makes me feel ill. There is another alternative: the new 1950 bystro (that’s its name — ”1950”), but I’m not sure they have a generator.

I stick my head out the window to look at the neighborhood. No bright lights anywhere. Lots of grey.

For some reason, Substack this morning wants to end my sentences for me. The UI is serving up various options automatically. The predictive text pop ups are annoying.

Let’s see if I can figure how to turn this tool… off.

Turns out the the feature migrated to the computer because I’m connected via phone. I killed it, permanently.

Where was I? Ah, blackout.

The DTEK website just told me emergency stabilization outages in Kyiv will persist, er, until 1430, maybe.