View From the Bushes

Sorry it's been awhile. I actually had a great blog all but done on Friday, and then my browser crashed. Of course you'll just have to take my word that it was great. The weekend ended up being pretty busy -- I ran the family campaign on Friday evening, and then I ran the "friends" campaign on Saturday, add in cleaning, preperation, and ferrying kids around and that was basically it for the weekend. Of course that still leaves Sunday, but we had a complete server room downtime, so I had to go into work, so that wasn't much better.

My boss's plan was to have me there in the beginning, and to let me go home early and have someone else take care of brining my servers back online, so that someone would be fresh today. I told them to call me if they ran into any problems and so sure enough, timed so as to catch me right in my deepest sleep, they did. Rather than calling my home line (which I would have recognized as a phone) they called my cell, which my sleep-addled brain interpreted as the alarm clock, so I stumbled out of bed and tried to turn the alarm off, which you can do by hitting the power button. But it wasn't the alarm, so I ended up turning on the radio. That woke me up enough to realize it was my cell phone, but not enough that I could answer it. See, I have a leather cover on the phone which has to be opened first, but that was more steps than I could figure out. Also somewhere along the line I dislodged a box which I tripped over two or three times as I staggered back and forth between the dresser (where my cell phone was) and the clock radio.

Of course then I had a hard time falling back asleep, so the whole idea of being fresh today kind of got left by the wayside, and as evidenced by the phone call, they didn't exactly succeed with flying colors at handling things without me. I told them that next time I was just going to stay the whole time. I did get pizza out of the deal, so it wasn't a complete bust, but overall, the weekend was not as restful as I would have hoped.

Grumpy when awakened
Ross