I hate it when I know, I did wake up and remembered a dream and was awake a while thinking about it, only to wake up again in the morning and not remembering the dream itself, just that I did remember it just a little while ago and was thinking about it.
The technicians at the hospital wanted to test the emergency energy supplies today. To help them we had to stand at all the (30 something) elevators in the building and keep people from using them because maintenance wasn’t sure they’d still work after the power-down.
So we went to our elevator, glued an out of order sign to it and waited. Nothing happened. Twenty minutes later a technician comes and tells us they can’t get it to work, we are to remove the signs and they will try again at twenty past three (that was at three o’clock). We do as told, and wait again. At half past three, I call maintenance to ask whether anything will happen any time soon. They are going to switch it off at half past they tell me. Sure. Of course.
End of the story? It’s four o’clock before they manage to turn off the power. Can you imagine a big hospital without any elevators for more than an hour? Never to mention that we wasted our time waiting for them to get their job done.
Ah well. Ten minutes till I have to leave again for my Tai Chi course. At least I had time to eat something.