Night of the Living Alarms

[athenaltena]

Good Lord, last night was interesting.

After staying home from church yesterday I gave Krys a call around 4 and had him come over, and I made home-made garlic bread and pasta and we watched a Discovery Channel show about dinosaurs, since everyone loves dinosaurs. That was good, but then the fire alarm went off and we had to go outside. In the rain. Luckily there was no fire and the firemen showed up quickly to confirm that some idiot had just burnt their dinner.

But then, oh then, the alarm itself needed to be turned off by someone from the management company, and it took them 40 minutes to show up, the entirety of which we had to deal with this thing shrieking in our ears since nobody wanted to stand outside for that long in the rain. My ears were ringing for a good 10 minutes after on top of a hell of a headache.

But it got worse. As I'm going to bed I hear this beeping in the apartment across the hall, and it turns out that an alarm in that apartment is going off, and the tenants have already left for break! This thing too was loud enough that I couldn't get any sleep, so I called the management company again (I'd also called about the fire alarm just to make sure we didn't have a diffusion of responsibility situation where everyone assumes that someone else took care of it). But it got even worse, since the only maintenance guy they could get hold of was an hour away and driving back into Boston. This, by the way, happened at 1 in the morning.

Eventually it did get turned off. I'm not sure when exactly since I had industrial strength earplugs, borrowed from Nadia, in my ears so I could at least get some sleep, but it was turned off and nobody's dead/in the hospital, so apparently it was a low battery or something.

Did I mention that all this happened the night before I had to take two finals?! Yeah, something up there just loves to screw with me. Couldn't make this up if I tried.

Comments

[riverwynne.livejournal.com]

Finals week and Murphy's Law are never a good combination. Trust me, I know the feeling.

I hope your day gets better!

[athenaltena.livejournal.com]

Yes, I am a follower of Mr. Murphy and his laws. Not by choice, mind you.

It does appear to have gotten somewhat better since the first final was not as painful as I thought. Here's hoping the same for the second.

[riverwynne.livejournal.com]

So... my laptop just gave me the blue screen of death and then restarted itself. Right after I finished my 19 page paper. (Good thing I saved) It seems to be working fine now.

I backed everything up on a junk drive. I refuse to write this paper again. And it's due today.

Murphy's Law strikes again.

[athenaltena.livejournal.com]

*nod nod* I had the BSOD last week when I had a paper to turn in, luckily rolling back the driver fixed it and resulted in minimal damage (mostly raised blood pressure for me). These things just have the best sense of timing, don't they?

[le-section-8.livejournal.com]

Yeah, had that happen once or twice. This is exactly when a concentrated microwave projector, or mini-EMP, comes in hand. (HInt: use microwave.)

[athenaltena.livejournal.com]

Not sure I could drag my microwave all the way across the hall from the kitchen and hold it up to the door, but I did seriously consider knocking down the door at one point (of course then I would have had to deal with a b&e charge, and knowing me I'd hurt myself doing it).

Thank God for industrial strength earplugs at least.