Perfect timing?

Tonight almost as soon as I got home, it started to pour outside.  A few minutes later it had turned into an electric storm.  Good timing!  But then when I was about to switch on the rice cooker, the light went off and didn't come back for almost 90 minutes!  Oh man, I was starving!

Then when the electricity finally came back, horror, no cable TV!  Well, my building has a satellite dish anyway so I can still watch something, but no History Channel nor National Geographic, nor HBO.  After one hour wait, I call the cable company's help desk, and what a nice surprise to find a polite and knowledgeable guy at the other end of the line.  It must be the first time since I came to this country that I find customer service guy who's not freaking ignorant, nor arrogant to the degree of not listening to my problems, etc.  Nice.

Oh yeah, the electric storm damaged the cable, so it's just a matter of waiting.  I'm glad the cable box is not broken.