Mixed Bag...

While I realise that I do not update as much as I "should" on this little site, I also realize that I lead a rather boring life; so if I did update on a daily basis my small following would be put into a coma of boredom. That being said, I want to share my story from yesterday regarding the building that I work in.

The Ames-Webster Mansion did not want to come back from the weekend. I don't know if it was just really tired, or if it was hungover or what; but it did not want to wake up. First off I was late to get to work; which if you have read my post "The hidden agenda of the brain prior to 8:30 in the morning" then you know that I like to be sitting at my desk and ready for the day at 8:30. By contract I am only required to be in the building by that time. What can I say, I am an over achiever. So yes, yesterday I was actually late, getting into the building at 8:43, SHAMEFUL I tell you... Anyway, I settle into my Monday morning groove: working on the agenda for the 9:30 meeting, answering the frantic Monday phone calls, and taking care of the weekend voice mails and emails. At around quarter past nine in the morning the CEO, who had just walked in, walked back out of his office and informed me that the phones were not working. This caught me off guard since I was just on the phone with the president and owner of the company. I test it out, and the CEO is right... we have no phones. Now I do not recall if I have shared the on-going struggle with the phone system in the building. It is insane, every other Monday the phones would go down for about an hour, when we thought that we had that fixed that, the hard drive for the phone system died. Before that there is a VERY long list of things that were wrong/went wrong with the phones (one time in July the phones were out for 4 days... FOUR days!). We have been/were in the process of switching service providers as well... But all you really need to know here is that the phones suck and went down about 15 minutes prior to our Monday morning meeting. The other lovely happening would be the elevator... It is old, very old. It has a gate instead of an actual door, so that should give you a clue. It also has a weight limit of 700 lbs., sounds like a decent weight limit I know; but throw a few good sized men in there and it WILL stop between floors. Well the elevator was stuck between floors for not reason yesterday. There was no one in it, it was just stuck. If you looked into the elevator door window, you could see the floor of the elevator above your eye level, the window is about 4' off the ground. the best part is that I had to wait for the phones to be fixed before anything with the elevator could happen because I couldn't call for a tech.

Everything was resolved eventually, we ended up switching phone providers a day early because of all the craziness; so with any luck I won't have to deal with that again. The elevator tech came and fixed the issue and called our elevator an "old piece of crap" in the process, which made me laugh to hear a tech say it. And I hope this made you laugh, though I am pretty sure that a lot of you are in a boredom induced coma right now.

P.S. Docta-Lady, how are you?! It has been forever! And I think that it would be awesome if you used that phrase on a regular basis.