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Locked in my office...
Jul. 26th, 2005 08:34 pmToday ranks as one of my stranger days. The Strange Highlight was being locked in my office for about half and hour. Really. The trials of not working in a cubicle, I suppose.
You see, I have two offices at work. One of those offices I share with madbaker's fuzzy upstairs neighbor. This office has a cypher lock on it, and we often (usually?) work with the door shut.
So we're working away, and I get up to hand a report to somebody down the hall. I turn the latch but the door won't open. After a few tries I twig that we are locked in. I call our security/facilities guy. He can't open the lock either. Then my project manager joins in. All in all it took three people (including Ivar) about 30 min to get the door open. They had to take the whole mechanism off, which is more complicated than a normal lock. I stayed out of it all, and got a lot of reading done. But I had visions of having to call Deb to tell her I wouldn't be able to make my lesson because I was locked in my office at work. Too weird...
Second in the Weirdness Ranking was a conversation I had with the wrangler we use for SCA events. I've been trying to connect with this guy for a week now in order to get rentals for our October EQ event. Now, any conversation with this guy is, how shall I put it, *interesting* because the guy is a Character (TM). He's a little, wirery old opinionated cowboy who likes to complain, although I think in the balance he's an OK guy. But in addition to the usual weird element, he tells me that his insurance may not let him rent horses anymore, but that he is arguing with them. *Swell* (insert sarcastic tone here). Hopefully, this can be worked, but OMG if we can't provide rentals at events it is going to put a *serious* damper on growing the West EQ group.
And of course today I got caught in some severe traffic caused by accidents.
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You see, I have two offices at work. One of those offices I share with madbaker's fuzzy upstairs neighbor. This office has a cypher lock on it, and we often (usually?) work with the door shut.
So we're working away, and I get up to hand a report to somebody down the hall. I turn the latch but the door won't open. After a few tries I twig that we are locked in. I call our security/facilities guy. He can't open the lock either. Then my project manager joins in. All in all it took three people (including Ivar) about 30 min to get the door open. They had to take the whole mechanism off, which is more complicated than a normal lock. I stayed out of it all, and got a lot of reading done. But I had visions of having to call Deb to tell her I wouldn't be able to make my lesson because I was locked in my office at work. Too weird...
Second in the Weirdness Ranking was a conversation I had with the wrangler we use for SCA events. I've been trying to connect with this guy for a week now in order to get rentals for our October EQ event. Now, any conversation with this guy is, how shall I put it, *interesting* because the guy is a Character (TM). He's a little, wirery old opinionated cowboy who likes to complain, although I think in the balance he's an OK guy. But in addition to the usual weird element, he tells me that his insurance may not let him rent horses anymore, but that he is arguing with them. *Swell* (insert sarcastic tone here). Hopefully, this can be worked, but OMG if we can't provide rentals at events it is going to put a *serious* damper on growing the West EQ group.
And of course today I got caught in some severe traffic caused by accidents.
Horse Stuff: ( Read more... )
