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by vanessaj

I did have my first yard sale last summer and made over $100 for junk I was just going to throw away. Amazing. Of course, on Long Island - probably in all NYC and surrounding areas, you just pull stuff out to the curb and it's gone in a few hours time. I'm not sure exactly what happens to all of that stuff... Mayby it gets sucked up into some "junk worm hole" or possibly a tear in the space-time continuum out there at the curb or something. I mean ANYTHING we drag out there is there...then we turn around or come out the next morning and...well...then it's not!

I even quit walking over that spot on the curb...I just walk around it now. Wierd.

Maybe your curb has that, too, so that you can save on gas to the Goodwill. I figure people who live in that dimension may need a little junk, like the ones in our world, too.

by maecuff

I'm going to be here for a while. EVERY time we get a thunderstorm, something happens. We don't have power in most of our building..which means the systems are running on UPS now. I have to wait here until they wind down, shut everything down, wait for the power to come back and bring everything back up. Right now, they are estimating 7:00. I have 99 minutes left before the UPS craps out.

If I'm lucky..the power will come back up shortly, but I don't usually have that kind of luck.

Edited to add: I'm bored.

by maecuff

The power came back on at 6:45 before the UPS gave out. At home? It didn't come back on until 1:30am.

Yesterday, as soon as the thunderstorm started, I sent my boss a note and asked him if he wanted to take a bet on whether the phones or the electricity would go out, the very SECOND that I hit 'send' the electricity went out. I'm thinking that I might actually have power over the heavens and the earth. :)

by jdclyde

How do I know? My PC was off when I came in yesterday morning.

The servers run off a farm of UPS's that can keep them going for a few hours, but from the reports, the power was down about 30 minutes to an hour longer than the UPS's can handle.

This means my Intranet server that had an uptime of 480+ days got shutdown! X-( GRRRRRR!

We are not a 24/7 shop, so there was no one here to deal with this until about 6am the next day.

Glad it isn't as big a deal for us as it is for most companies. Can you believe some people would get calls and be expected to come in if something like that happened after hours? Oh the horror, the horror..... ;\

by maecuff

it's up to the members of my staff to handle off hour issues. (I have to get SOME perks for being the boss). But in this case, I'm closest and it wouldn't be very nice to ask anyone else to do it.

by ontheropes

find my motorcyle helmet, (not that one, the black full coverage one with the faceshield, it's here somewhere) my "Willie G" (tm) gauntlets (the ones with the rivets and rawhide),(I know where my full set of leathers are), and my badminton racket and I will fearlessly get you a drink of cold water. Or... just double-dare me.

Just curious... are you easily distracted and how far from you is the nearest 7-11? Just so's I know.

Am I too late? It's Monday again fer crying out loud. Where the Hell have I been?

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