Perfect timing
Mar. 11th, 2005 12:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seandcWell, today showed a nice little example of perfect timing.
This all ties in with the office refurbishment. Today was the day we've been waiting for all this time. "The Day". Time to pack all the boxes, clear off all the desks etc. Just a difference in timing from what was expected. Everyone thought that the morning would be normal-ish (hanging on waiting though) with the final packing happening after lunch.
Oops, change of plan. About 9.20ish meeting, we're told the desks are going at midday (and later overheard the movers saying they'd been told everyone would be gone by midday), and the computers even earlier. Needless to say, without the computers there's not a lot that can be done in records, and with all our stuff either packed or most of the shelf aisles jammed with junk there's not a lot for the library either. So, packed up, and just after 11 it's time to bounce off into the rainy distance. Yes, I walked all the way back into the city in the rain.
Here comes the perfect timing piece. I'd been home from food shopping all of ten minutes before the power went out. After an hour's grace time, I called the company - the initial recording said that there were severe outages all over the state, and to call back in two hours if no progress. I listen for the next news report on the radio, and they say there's lights out all over the city, 60,000 homes without power. These first rains had caused a freaky number of pole-top fires.
The power comes back, then blinks out again. I rang Dad to see what the tv news said - they've had to bring in repair crews from all over the state. Luckily the lights came back rather quicker than the 10-hour repair estimate.
But there's the perfect timing. Today I got all my shopping done and was home before the power went out. Since all those lights went out, and the freeway was already being roadworked, on a "normal" day I'd have been stuck in a crowded bus, before going to shop where there may not even be any power. Perfect timing.
Swiped from most everyone...
This all ties in with the office refurbishment. Today was the day we've been waiting for all this time. "The Day". Time to pack all the boxes, clear off all the desks etc. Just a difference in timing from what was expected. Everyone thought that the morning would be normal-ish (hanging on waiting though) with the final packing happening after lunch.
Oops, change of plan. About 9.20ish meeting, we're told the desks are going at midday (and later overheard the movers saying they'd been told everyone would be gone by midday), and the computers even earlier. Needless to say, without the computers there's not a lot that can be done in records, and with all our stuff either packed or most of the shelf aisles jammed with junk there's not a lot for the library either. So, packed up, and just after 11 it's time to bounce off into the rainy distance. Yes, I walked all the way back into the city in the rain.
Here comes the perfect timing piece. I'd been home from food shopping all of ten minutes before the power went out. After an hour's grace time, I called the company - the initial recording said that there were severe outages all over the state, and to call back in two hours if no progress. I listen for the next news report on the radio, and they say there's lights out all over the city, 60,000 homes without power. These first rains had caused a freaky number of pole-top fires.
The power comes back, then blinks out again. I rang Dad to see what the tv news said - they've had to bring in repair crews from all over the state. Luckily the lights came back rather quicker than the 10-hour repair estimate.
But there's the perfect timing. Today I got all my shopping done and was home before the power went out. Since all those lights went out, and the freeway was already being roadworked, on a "normal" day I'd have been stuck in a crowded bus, before going to shop where there may not even be any power. Perfect timing.
Swiped from most everyone...
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Date: 2005-03-10 06:03 pm (UTC)Hehehe... 'Slightly' cheerful and closing time att the pub? Great combination for your decision making I'd say... :P
We've had power
Date: 2005-03-12 03:50 am (UTC)We were one of the lucky ones who hasn't been affected by the power-top fires. We've had the odd flicker, but no power black-outs.
Well, I have the offical date: James will be leaving for Korea for a few months in April. I never thought he'd be leaving so soon. I won't be going with him because they'll only be paying his airfares. *grumble* so I'll be living here by myself and have to make do with emails and phone calls. We'll be doing the long-distance relationship thing and see how that works out.
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Date: 2005-03-12 05:55 pm (UTC)*imagines normal "ooh shiny!" impulsiveness and starts there*
Oh dear :lol:
Re: We've had power
Date: 2005-03-12 06:10 pm (UTC)Not so lucky in the other timing stakes. :eek: Time to overdose on the doing things together... dinner, dancing and de movies (ok, so my alliteration isn't perfect...)
Good luck keeping the long-distance thing going; and you'll get the hang of living by yourself soon enough - part the first: spreading stuff out...
Re: We've had power
Date: 2005-03-13 03:14 am (UTC)Re: We've had power
Date: 2005-03-13 03:48 pm (UTC)I can just picture it now, a pile of pizza boxes stacked by the couch while you lie on it watching tv :lol:
*ducks* :D
Re: We've had power
Date: 2005-03-14 06:15 am (UTC)LOL.
Re: We've had power
Date: 2005-03-14 03:33 pm (UTC):lol: