Minor blackout

Imagine a day without electricity. It doesn't have to be a major blackout, just a minor failure of electric circuit preventing you from using all electric household stuff and ... your computer. I started to realize that this is going to come true after electricity wiring started to sparkle and make some scary noise (after i tried to turn on my laptop). Well, usually orderly wiring doesn't start to act like that for sure, but it's a long story why it is out of this orderly state.
So, what to do all day without any electric device? In summer(when the weather is nice) probably it's not a big problem - it's a gift of fate to come out and look at the sun and make sure there is no nuclear war outside. Or you can act like a tourist which came to this town and try to see all the interesting stuff(it's funny but usually people don't know and haven't seen all the sightseeings of the town they live in).
Probably, a day without electricity is not enough to die of boredom or hunger for computers. If you are not really that geek or computer dependent and a social person(meaning you have at least person you communicate not with a help of computer), this is not a problem for one day, maybe two.
But what about electricity disappearing for a longer period of time? This makes us people working with computers especially vulnerable: both psychologically and socially. There is no use of software developer if there is no electricity, right? You can't write applications on paper and try to compile them in that format...(though I remember in first course we were writing programming tests on paper(as the code)).
Luckily, that vision (that one about electricity disappearing for longer time) not going to happen (probably). There is just a small chance of nuclear war or alien attack to happen (really).