#Chapter 248: A Reason To Train

I snooze my alarm and roll over, yet when it sounds a second time ten minutes later, I resolve myself and pull myself out of bed. Wearing my pajamas, with my hair up in a messy bun, I shuffle into the kitchen for coffee. While the maker works its magic, I go into the living room and click on the news. The newscaster is talking about the weather, and it looks like another sunny day. I walk into the kitchen, pour myself my coffee, and head back into the living room. By the time I sit down on the couch, the coverage has switched to talking about yesterday’s sudden power outage. I grab the remote and crank up the volume. A local resident is being interviewed, “We had no warning. One minute I was working, and in the next my computer went out. Now my pay is being docked for the day, and my kids had to come home early from school.” The cameras cut away from the interview and to the main newscaster back in the studio. “My residences and businesses were disrupted by the outage,” the n