Emergency Sirens
Posted: March 10th, 2007 | Author: saldarji | Filed under: stuff | 1 Comment »Last night, I woke up to the sound of an emergency siren that was putting out about 20k decibels. I didn’t open my window, but it sounded like it was coming from down the block. I looked around but I didn’t see any bombs falling or any other catastrophe that would kill me. I think I read somewhere that hackers have figured out how to set them off using radio waves. So, I went back to sleep.
About 4 hours later, someone set off our building’s fire alarm. This happens a few times a week in my building. Usually, this happens around dinnertime, when someone burns their food. My guess is that someone woke up at 5 AM to make toast. So, I ignored that and went to sleep.
Of course, I forgot to turn off the alarm on my Blackberry. So, that woke me up at 7 AM. Needless to say, I am not fully rested.
And don’t forget, tomorrow the DST goes into effect. I’m sure everyone knows this, since people have been working harder to adjust for it. In fact, some guys were in our Minneapolis office yesterday for 4 hours trying to adjust the internal timing mechanism on our door locks.
I still find it interesting to see all the challenges involved in changing the hour for daylight saving time.
And, needless to say, I missed breakfast on sunday. I went to the hotel’s cafe at 11.30 thinking it was 10.30. They serve breakfast until 11. Ugh.