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November 12, 2002
exciting times at work
Right as I was getting ready to leave work today, I was returning my 2 way radio and all of the sudden someone said "Do you know there is water pouring down into the newsprint storage area". Of course in disbelief, I said "Yeah right, that would never happen. It's not even raining outside." So I went to go see for myself and shockingly, water was pouring over rolls of valuable unused newsprint. It got even better, there was water in a 480 volt press drive cabinet. Right above it, the nice 3/8ths of an inch diameter high press water line that fed the humidity control system. For the whipped-cream-on-top effect, it dripped through the flooring and onto the newsprint rolls as well as the 480 volt high voltage rail that feeds 2 robots (the ones I've talked about before).
So I spent much time with a wet dry vac, running around with people manually moving a robot without power to it (so nobody would get electrocuted and die), and other system software tasks. The major tasks revolved around getting the newsprint robots back up so they could feed the press paper. I stayed a few more hours after everything was running. It's nice to be an asset.
That semi-bright-spot in my day however means that I didn't get to work on any of my class work for this Thursday. Which means I'll end up taking this Thursday off probably.
Woot.
Posted by beamz at November 12, 2002 11:44 PM