The Anchorage, Part 3

[Miss B]

True, but unfortunately, most never learn.

 

[Hornet3d]

Many years ago I worked for British Telecom, our only national phone provider at that time, and there was a strike over privatisation. I remember one incident where a manager could not gain access to our local telephone exchange and told the press that the strikers had super glued the lock. It later transpired that BT higher management had changed the lock over night as a security issue but forgot to inform the middle managers. Strangely I never saw an apology or retraction in the press. I did not condone vandalism then or now but strange things happen on both sides when there is a strike.

 

[Terre]

Good morning. Looks like it will be a nice day here.

 

[Miss B]

Here too Terre. It's only going to be in the mid-70ºs today, with humidity down in the 30% range. VERY nice weather indeed.

 

[Terre]

I hope winter isn't being too hard on Lorraine.

 

[Miss B]

I know. Out on the open water can't be easy in bad weather.

 

[DanaTA]

Hi, I haven't been abducted by aliens...in the past day or two. Just tired and/or busy.

Dana

 

[Terre]

I hope you get some decent rest tonight.

 

[DanaTA]

It's pizza night! Diane will stay up later than during the week. Rest? What's that? Even when I plan on 8 hours or more, I always wake up at least two or three times. And it seems that I almost always awake ten or fifteen minutes before the alarm goes off.

Dana

 

[Miss B]

Boy does that ever sound familiar, though I only set my radio to go on when I have to get up early on Sundays to get ready for the gym. Other days, like today for instance, I often don't crawl out of bed until around noon.

 

[DanaTA]

If I don't set my alarm, I could stay in bed until Diane comes home from work. Not necessarily sleeping well, but just not wanting to get out of bed.

Dana

 

[Miss B]

Ahhh, that can be a problem. I always drag myself out of bed after 9 to 10 hours of sleep. Unfortunately, it's not straight through, because then I'd probably be able to get away with 8 hours. I know on Sunday's I get about 7 1/2 to 8 hours, but since I'm up late most days, even if I go to bed earlier on Saturday nights, I'm still half asleep, and usually feel like a nap in the middle of the afternoon on Sunday. I usually force myself to not take a nap, because then I wouldn't sleep at night.

 

[Satira Capriccio]

Thursdays and Fridays I work 6:30 am to 2:30 pm, so I tend to take a nap in the afternoon when I'm done working. Yesterday, I fell asleep about 4 pm. And ... I woke up at 3:30 am.

A wee bit longer nap than I expected. Then again, I only had 3 hours of sleep the night before.

 

[Miss B]

That'll do it for sure. If I don't sleep well one night, and have to get up early the next morning, the next night I'm out of it for 10 hours at least, which is what happened last night, and why I woke up around noon.

 

[Terre]

That was quite a nap. Sounds like you badly needed it.
This afternoon I'll be going in to work for a few hours. The next KeHE specialty order is due by 6am Sunday and I won't have time to do it then. I didn't due it yesterday because I'm on vacation! In order to avoid confusing the head office I'll just write my time down and it will be manually added to next weeks clock ins.

 

[Terre]

Good evening.

 

[Miss B]

Evening Terre. I assume all went well at work.

 

[Terre]

Yup. Just a long, busy day as I expected.

 

[Terre]

Good evening. Thundery out there. We'll see if anything comes of the noise.

 

[Miss B]

Evening Terre. It's been very cloudy here the past couple of days, but no rain. Of course they're predicting a lot of rain this week, so I'm sure we'll see some of it soon enough.