Lil' advice for Paolo's wife Holly..

1 - put candles in livingroom and lit them

2 - open up a good bottle of wine

3 - remove batteries from all mobile phones present

4 - hide I-pad and/or tablet 

5 - throw main power switch and remove all fuses from fusebox and hide them (also the spare ones)

6 - call Paolo from where ever he slaves on Reality and say: "Geez, have you heard? No power for the next 24 hours!"

7- when he comes down chain him to couch if you must so he gets some REST!

Lil' advice for Paolo: you have 5 minutes to back up the files you are working on.. I have it from a reliable source the power is about to fail and won't come back soon..

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When all my kids still lived at home and it was dinner time I just switched off the internet router.. Then I counted back from 20 to zero. Before I was at zero they all were downstairs with terror on their faces.. "Internet isn't working! I'm socially dead!" they all cried..

I just looked and them calmly and said: "I just received a phone call from the provider that internet is closed for the next 45 minutes since they have to back-up Youtube and facebook. So we just have enough time to eat our dinner, shall we?"

Was a better method than screaming my lungs out at the bottom of the stairs for three or four times and ending up throwing away the then cold dinner..