And to reiterate - I *hate* talking on the phone. Cell phone in particular.
Christmas was a series of fourteen phonecalls, all work-related.
The first was at 0330. Valium Wailer got an alarm from the UPS that it was overheating and wanted to know what to do. He also noted that as he was calling me, he noticed on The Sleeper's report that the same thing had happened the day before (which I also got called on) but that The Sleeper hadn't bothered to inform Valium Wailer about it.
I ran VW through the usual drill, and told him to call me in the morning if it was still an issue, or became an issue again.
It did.
So I started the series of calls to the client and the service people to get this dealt with.
Then came a whole series of calls about a pipe blowing out the ceiling of a washroom and flooding all over the place. Happily, it was in Evil Property Manager's domain, although it did affect our area somewhat. Call call call, more or less dealt with. One brief trip in to the site. Last call, 2300 or so. Well, that was only twenty hours of Christmas bliss.
Then, at 0430 Palooka called me to tell me about the leak downstairs. You know, the one I'd spent all that time dealing with.
The ceiling was still leaking, but only in drips. It was all the wet material slowly shedding the water that had been soaked up. Palooka was disturbed because, and I quote here: "Where before it was like drip, now it's like drip-drip."
I told him that was fine, and to just keep an eye on it. Then he said "Hey, you weren't sleeping or anything were you?"
No, not me. Perish the thought of me sleeping at 0430. Truly I only sleep once a week, and it's in a chair for about an hour.
I then got a twenty minute monologue from him about his step-by-step journey downstairs and exactly what he was thinking about, and how that changed when he saw the drips. Sigh.
DiceGimp is still working, although I can't figure out why. Here's how he did his Sunday night shift:
1) Shows up at 1800. Needs to change.
2) Changed and back up at 1815. Tells his partner (Q-tip) that he's starving, and McDonald's is closed. So he's going to bike a few kilometers off to a mall and find something to eat.
3) Partner (pretty serious about the realities of the job) pages and pages DiceGimp, and finally at 1930 or so gets a response: "I've got my food, and now I'm on my way back."
4) Page page page and finally a response at 2015: "I'm back and now I have to eat."
5) Page page page until 2115 or so: "Okay, I'm done eating so as soon as I've gone to the bathroom I'll start my first patrol."
The one-shot guard they had come in on Monday from 1600-0000 (for the bike patrol guys) was from Pakistan and after the now-familiar questions about marriage status, children, and where am I from? Canada. No no, where is your family from? Sigh, Germany and Europe.
... he talked about nothing except for herbalism and sex. Often in conjunction. Although I was greatly amused (as will Tursi, possibly) that he knew an herbalist that cured someone's leukemia with a single dosage. I guess someone we know who got hers from shaving her legs with a leukemiac's razor must have used that, since she's been clear ever since. :P
I've been playing Guild Wars for the past few days, has anybody else played this? I'm a party of one. :P
The first was at 0330. Valium Wailer got an alarm from the UPS that it was overheating and wanted to know what to do. He also noted that as he was calling me, he noticed on The Sleeper's report that the same thing had happened the day before (which I also got called on) but that The Sleeper hadn't bothered to inform Valium Wailer about it.
I ran VW through the usual drill, and told him to call me in the morning if it was still an issue, or became an issue again.
It did.
So I started the series of calls to the client and the service people to get this dealt with.
Then came a whole series of calls about a pipe blowing out the ceiling of a washroom and flooding all over the place. Happily, it was in Evil Property Manager's domain, although it did affect our area somewhat. Call call call, more or less dealt with. One brief trip in to the site. Last call, 2300 or so. Well, that was only twenty hours of Christmas bliss.
Then, at 0430 Palooka called me to tell me about the leak downstairs. You know, the one I'd spent all that time dealing with.
The ceiling was still leaking, but only in drips. It was all the wet material slowly shedding the water that had been soaked up. Palooka was disturbed because, and I quote here: "Where before it was like drip, now it's like drip-drip."
I told him that was fine, and to just keep an eye on it. Then he said "Hey, you weren't sleeping or anything were you?"
No, not me. Perish the thought of me sleeping at 0430. Truly I only sleep once a week, and it's in a chair for about an hour.
I then got a twenty minute monologue from him about his step-by-step journey downstairs and exactly what he was thinking about, and how that changed when he saw the drips. Sigh.
DiceGimp is still working, although I can't figure out why. Here's how he did his Sunday night shift:
1) Shows up at 1800. Needs to change.
2) Changed and back up at 1815. Tells his partner (Q-tip) that he's starving, and McDonald's is closed. So he's going to bike a few kilometers off to a mall and find something to eat.
3) Partner (pretty serious about the realities of the job) pages and pages DiceGimp, and finally at 1930 or so gets a response: "I've got my food, and now I'm on my way back."
4) Page page page and finally a response at 2015: "I'm back and now I have to eat."
5) Page page page until 2115 or so: "Okay, I'm done eating so as soon as I've gone to the bathroom I'll start my first patrol."
The one-shot guard they had come in on Monday from 1600-0000 (for the bike patrol guys) was from Pakistan and after the now-familiar questions about marriage status, children, and where am I from? Canada. No no, where is your family from? Sigh, Germany and Europe.
... he talked about nothing except for herbalism and sex. Often in conjunction. Although I was greatly amused (as will Tursi, possibly) that he knew an herbalist that cured someone's leukemia with a single dosage. I guess someone we know who got hers from shaving her legs with a leukemiac's razor must have used that, since she's been clear ever since. :P
I've been playing Guild Wars for the past few days, has anybody else played this? I'm a party of one. :P
posted by Rimmy at 13:48
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No , been playing Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines. Playing a Tremere, it's fun.
I got a 160 gig drive for christmas, took me 2 years to not fill up the 40 gig.......wow...hope your hellidaze get better with da game, I don't know peeps that play it, and will inform them.
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