"Lifeline"
length of 133 meters
"Scientists - the light,
and ignorance - the darkness "
(Old Russian proverb)
(C) Vladimir Bulchukey (Wlodek Black)
... Light cut down on August 13. Take another quarter of an
hour, and was would have 13 hours. The school has already
received ominous warnings from the Mosenergo, but nobody, not
even the headmaster could not believe that with officials from
the circuit breaker will rise arm for the state children's
educational institution. However, the rose. As it soon turned
out into the darkness plunged dozens of schools in Moscow.
Moscow! City, for the "welfare" which constantly repeats on
television high state officials and believe that many of our
fellow citizens. The city annually emit millions on lavish
celebrations to mark their own birthdays on the first weekend
September, at the very first day of September, ventured to
drown in the waves of parental objections, and quite possibly,
the indomitable youth squall of anger. State that do not
produce the metropolitan public education penny for utilities
already Since 1996, the very same for this and punish. In the
long list Post-Soviet Russia marasmus is just a fad, so that
does not cause much surprise. In general, the light flashed
again only on September 1. Otherwise it would be ignorance,
because what can be learned in the dark? .. So it made in the
epigraph adage obviously needs osovremenivanii in relation to
democratic Russia.
... And between 13 August and 1 September was lying we all
know the date of August 22.
On the 13th the number was assigned to a dress rehearsal of
the Festival FunTop98, with the full sweep of all equipment and
all software in the conditions as close to real.
Instead of a rehearsal held an emergency meeting of the
Organizing Committee, passed on the platform of the subway
station "Arbat". Go "The city" no longer make sense. Gathered
in a tight circle around one of the benches, we first ad
libitum gave vent to his feelings, and then quickly came to a
cruel, but a definite conclusion: to cancel or transfer FunTop
not. Most future participants and guests had already purchased
tickets for the train to Moscow, the most impatient had the
same steal up close to the walls of the city ;-) (for example,
from Serge City Shadrinsk stayed with friends in Obolensk). In
preparation of the Festival has been invested so much energy,
soul and even own funds, which hold people worldwide bummer for
the second year in a row would be just deadly, even to
themselves, not to mention the "Spectrum" stage, etc. And the
people were would be a shame.
Several options were born out of the situation at once: the
first - Mosenergo - push! ", As Alex, the second - is hoped
that electricity is rapidly turned on, and wait, and the third
- seek opportunities to apply power from the outside. Somehow,
the fourth option - to find another place - a temper not
occurred to anyone, but he was born by the evening of the first
day. But it had to be put to rest once: to rent another room in
our already had neither the time nor the money.
The headmaster broke off his vacation and the 14 th of
August was released at work. Of course, the fate of FunTop-but
it is not worried in the first place, "the nose" was the
beginning of the school year. However, we must pay tribute to:
Michael A. found sympathetic words without indiscreet reminder
of FT, and tried every way to support and cheer me up. He
confirmed his intention to ensure that the Festival, if we can
bring ourselves electricity August 22, if by that time the
light still will not.
The fact that the light will not be exactly, it became clear
early in the week August 17. Next question was not "what to do,
and how to do. Steward school, Valentina Volchenkova, offered
to seek the help of an electrician RG, serving District 91-th
school, and gave the address. "For solidity" to the talks did
not go I, and Boris Sharapov (OPER) - as you know, meet some
"On their looks, in the sense of general appearance. Local
electrician understood our problem, even walked with us all the
possible points of connection to the nearest school to the
apartment house on grain lane but was unable to help. Well, it
is quite understandable: the risk of losing their job, of
course, would chip any money, and we do not could offer a
special lot.
Trying to put in your shop in the basement of that house
immediately ended in vain: on Saturday that the company was not
working. Although the other day they were in principle not
opposed to that that one of their outlets would be stuck with a
fork very long wire trailing somewhere under the heavens ...
Remained only the last and irreplaceable option: to
negotiate with someone from the building's residents. In the
house that on grain alley that behind the school, of my
students live just one. Two days before the opening of the
Festival I was at home in the evening picked up the phone ...
... People caught in those days, an invaluable service
throughout the Spectrum creative Luda, deserve to have their
names were called on the world. This student 10 "A" class 91-th
school Peter Matyushin, his parents - mom and dad Svetlana
Konstantinova Arkady Petrovich, as well as their neighbors -
Dmitri G. and his son.
On Friday, August 21, Boris and Alexander Sharapov Filyanov
(FIL / Antares) went to one of the firms that sell wholesale
electrical goods, and in recent orgkomitetovskie 160 rubles
bought 133 m two-conductor cable to the double insulation
suitable for installation outdoors.
Connected to an outlet in the apartment Dmitry Grigorievich
- their The windows were closer to the school. Svetlana
Konstantinova she agreed with the owners.
This should be (and maybe better not ...) to see: from the
window study computer science at the fifth floor of the school
hanging wire, stretched across the yard (thank God, back yard -
no cars, no pedestrians!) of trees, hang on some hooks along
walls of a residential house and finally plunges into the
transom windows on the ground floor ...
At 16 o'clock on August 21 in the hall lighted display
screen, the powerful speaker hit the elastic wave notorious
"envelope" ... After all experienced it seemed a miracle. And
the first time in the last two weeks of relief smiling face lit
up in earnest exhausted organizers ... With us rejoice luck and
help us in the day guys from other cities, arrived early on
FunTop and looked into the school. Chief editor of "Deja Vu"
shook the dust off jeans and palms, adjusted to go off the nose
during the holding shaky ladder points and customary
professional movement pulled out a tape recorder ...
The sun was shining, vibrating under light wind gusts
electrical, some old demos were spinning on video monitors
mixed in with the new 5-m release "Deja Vu", and I mumbled
something a voice recorder, gesticulating frantically, as if
before the camera lens ... It was the first fantopovskoe
interview! :-)
And in the hall and the corridor is already unfolding
humdrum work: hung signs and advertisements, arranged the
tables for the registration papers, and GPV was arguing with
someone on the sequence shown images, and we shall, if the bell
is about the "third ring" and will that for which scores of
people excitedly did not sleep at night, "Coding" and drawing,
drawing impossible AY and postponing the last ruble, the
hryvnia and "bunnies" for train tickets ... On this night,
sleep peacefully indifferent will fail too. Is that
naperezhivavshiesya "organizers" a little bit relieved - the
last and most difficult obstacle is passed.
Tomorrow - FunTop ...
