Random Thoughts

[greek_jester]

You know it's going to be a bad day, when you check the news before going in the office and your workplace is one of the lead stories.

Anything you can tell us without risking your job?

[AnaKhouri]

Does anyone remember FabuLand Legos? They were my favorite. My kids live them too.

On another note, if you want toys that last, I can say from personal experience that most Legos will survive at least 35 years.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Does anyone remember FabuLand Legos? They were my favorite. My kids live them too.

On another note, if you want toys that last, I can say from personal experience that most Legos will survive at least 35 years.

I have a set I bought on my honeymoon. It is 41½ years old.

See you at the Lego convention, Brick Fair. I'll be at the one in August.

[Pixelated]

Why is somebody wandering the halls of this secure building, knocking on doors and selling chocolate bars ...

[TheSHAD0W]

Why is somebody wandering the halls of this secure building, knocking on doors and selling chocolate bars ...

Chocolate? ... Chocolate??! ... CHOOOOOOOCOLAAAAATTEEEEE!!! CHOOOOOOOOOCOLAAAAAAATTTEEEEEEEE!!!

[Pixelated]

Chocolate? ... Chocolate??! ... CHOOOOOOOCOLAAAAATTEEEEE!!! CHOOOOOOOOOCOLAAAAAAATTTEEEEEEEE!!!

Sorry, if I'd known I'd get this kind of reaction I'd have bought you one ...

I gave her a toonie and she thanked me, but said the chocolate bars were $3 ... I didn't want to fish around for more money so just smiled and said "No thanks" and closed the door.

Was I scammed? It's certainly possible.

[drunkenwildmage]

Anything you can tell us without risking your job?

We had a massive service outage that affected everything in the area. Affected places like, businesses, Hospitals, Police Departments etc, as well as our normal Residential customers.

[greek_jester]

We had a massive service outage that affected everything in the area.

Not good. I hope you survived with minimal trauma.

The only major power cut I ever lived through at work was when a complete numpty drilled through the main power line running up the road. It was out for most of the day, but we had to sit there in semi-darkness with nothing to do (computer-based jobs) until the bosses finally accepted that it wasn't getting fixed and sent us home. If they'd let us out by lunchtime I'd have been able to make it into town and run some of the errands I'd been planning to do that weekend, but no, they chose to ignore the updates from the power company saying that it would be at least 5 hours before anyone could get there...

[Pixelated]

Chocolate? ... Chocolate??! ... CHOOOOOOOCOLAAAAATTEEEEE!!! CHOOOOOOOOOCOLAAAAAAATTTEEEEEEEE!!!

Update: still don't know if the woman was a scammer, but she got caught a few doors away from me. We have residents who are the "on-call" substitute management during evening hours and I think it might have been one of those who caught her.

She tried to argue she had permission to be in the building. He said she absolutely did not; there were signs everywhere that this was not allowed.

She said the woman at whose door she was standing had gone to get money. The woman in question was still standing at the door and said she had no intention of going to get money.

Ultimately, she was escorted out (after apparently cursing up a streak in her native language) by the substitute management guy.

[drunkenwildmage]

Not good. I hope you survived with minimal trauma.

At the time, it was minimal, I just needed to waste some time explaining to people how my planned maintenance on a completely unrelated system, the preceding night, had nothing to do with causing the outage, and then also explain that there was no physical way it could've.

[drunkenwildmage]

Ahhh, yes.. I love the fantasy state that new people exist in when they put in requests, only to be brought down by the true reality of the situation.

[Nunavut Pants]

The only major power cut I ever lived through at work was when a complete numpty drilled through the main power line running up the road.

We got sent home once because the entire government facility campus we worked at had a power outage due to a squirrel.

Evidently the poor chap was one crispy carbonized critter when they found him at the substation.

[Pixelated]

Yesterday: Got home and discovered my phone (landline) hanging in midair, handset dangling. It sits next to my Mac Mini and Fuzzy Pumpkin likes to use said Mac Mini as his own personal heating pad (and bun warmer ...) He must have kicked the phone off the desk at some point, during a stretch-and-snooze session. Left me wondering how many calls I'd missed ...


Today: Got on the large elevator in my building to go to the ground floor and ... EWWWW. What the hell! The stench in the elevator was a mixture of something sweetish and something rotten. Fellow tenant told me they were cleaning out the apartment of the woman who died in her sleep last week ... and she was a hoarder.

[greek_jester]

Today: Got on the large elevator in my building to go to the ground floor and ... EWWWW. What the hell! The stench in the elevator was a mixture of something sweetish and something rotten. Fellow tenant told me they were cleaning out the apartment of the woman who died in her sleep last week ... and she was a hoarder.

That's just sad. Dying alone like that. At least I live with my sister, so at least I'm not on my own now.

[Pixelated]

That's just sad. Dying alone like that. At least I live with my sister, so at least I'm not on my own now.

I can think of worse ways to go than dying (presumably) peacefully in your own bed in your own home, but the hoarding ... yeah, it suggests she wasn't necessarily solitary by choice. And possibly didn't even have visits by local organizations who are set up to help those who live alone.

The really sad part about this is that so many people in this situation are precisely the ones who, for whatever reason(s), never reach out. My building is aimed specifically at seniors (you have to be at least 50 to get in). Among the many activities here, we have regular monthly visits by local EMS professionals to take a quick health summation and do a regular blood pressure checkup. Along with them come people from a different organization; these people offer a survey to determine whether residents feel that they are isolated and want some help with that. I would pretty much bet my next paycheque that this woman never showed up either for the EMS people or the people from the other organization, nor for any of the other activities offered to residents.