Jan232026
Minus twenty-seven
Friday, January 23rd, 2026 at 3:10 pm by Viktor IvanovichIn the night the frost was minus 27. In the morning no internet, and the mobile also bad, one stick, then nothing. I thought my old computer finally died, and I was ready to call Dima in Surgut and cry.
But Dima showed me last year a page where Attelkom writes what is broken: status.attelkom.net. I went to the neighbour with the phone that still caught the signal, and there it was: "interruption of power supply at the Severo-Vostok node", the batteries exhausted, a generator on the way. So the internet also sits without electricity, like us in the nineties. At half past eleven it came back.
At the refinery we wrote the same in the shift log: what failed, when, what we did. Nobody read it either. But it is correct to write it.