Uninteruptable Lava?

I got a big honkin' UPS. 2 Actually. Jeff swapped them for banner ads with Linux General Store because our house has cursed electricity. Having blown out numerous motherboards and spent far to much time on hold with various tech support companies to get parts replaced, we decided to get UPSs. We had a couple small ones that Kurt or I had acquired at our last job, but these new suckers are huge. They're the size of a small microwave. They have more buttons and LEDs than I know what to do with (hit the link to read the rest of my babbling) Kurt and I both worked at tech support at a local mega corporation. Each new computer came with a UPS. Except that many of the computers were replacements for computers that people already had. People who already had UPSs. Plus some people got laptops. They didn't need a UPS. So the shop accumulated dozens of these things. We always wanted to charge them all up and plug them end to end to end and see how long we could run a computer off 30 or so UPSs.

So where was I? Oh yeah, my bigass new UPSs. So we have 2 of these mothers. We put one downstairs by flounder (the MP3 server) and hunter (the spare workstation that everyone uses to check their email). We plugged in both of these machines (2 full tower cases, each with several harddrives and a big monitor). Then we plugged in Jeff's Laptop. And we were only using like 15% of the things capacity. So we plugged in a strip and hooked the TV, the VCR, the Stereo, and the Nintendo 64 all into it. 25%. Wow. So we plugged in the halogen light. 60%! That freakin' lamp consumes for electricity than all the rest of the hardware in 2 rooms. I'm amazed.

So I brought the second UPS upstairs and buried deep underneath my desk. I plugged my computer and my lava lamp into it. Now I have uninterruptable Lava. That's important. If the house goes down, (and strangely enough, this 100 year old building blows fuses about as often as I eat a can soup for lunch) I have like an hour to shut my computer down, and I can gently be illuminated by the soothing glow of green wax melting inside a triangular bottle. Why does this entertain me so much? I really do need to go outside.