Why I have a Headache
Jul. 5th, 2003 11:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lostcarparkCame in to work to spend a few hours sorting out some of the problems that cropped up while I wasn't here during the week. The first thing I need to do is check the email my manager sent me to find out what I have to do. Our email system, Lotus Notes, is down. Not a problem, as they're all logged in the bug database. Unfortunately Lotus Notes is also our bug database. So I'm reduced to phoning people to find out what they can remember of the problems. This probably wouldn't annoy me so much if there wasn't a great big noisy machine cleaning the carpark.
Outside a big white machine with flashing orange light on top is washing the tarmac. The building sits the in the middle of the carpark, so every minute or so the noise gets very loud, than fades away. What's worse is that every so often, the blasted thing needs to reverse, which results in a very loud beeping noise. This probably wouldn't irritate me so much if it wasn't for that damn alarm.
Sometime yesterday evening an alarm in an apartment two floors below started ringing. I've very glad it't two floors away, but it's still far too close. The particular frequency seems to carry a very long way, and it's quite loud in my bedroom. I really pity the people in the apartment below us. I'm sure there must be a law about alarms ringing continuously without a break. Something similar happened about a year ago in another apartment on my floor, and it took four days to get anything done about it. Hopefully that won't happen this time. We're petter armed with emergency phone numbers for the management company, so hopefully we can get it dealt with quickly.
So between all of these I have a pounding headache. Which makes it difficult to get any real work done (especially since I only have a vague idea of what work I should be doing).
On the plus side, planning to go out with Angie later. We might go to an outdoor concert, if we can be nothered...
Outside a big white machine with flashing orange light on top is washing the tarmac. The building sits the in the middle of the carpark, so every minute or so the noise gets very loud, than fades away. What's worse is that every so often, the blasted thing needs to reverse, which results in a very loud beeping noise. This probably wouldn't irritate me so much if it wasn't for that damn alarm.
Sometime yesterday evening an alarm in an apartment two floors below started ringing. I've very glad it't two floors away, but it's still far too close. The particular frequency seems to carry a very long way, and it's quite loud in my bedroom. I really pity the people in the apartment below us. I'm sure there must be a law about alarms ringing continuously without a break. Something similar happened about a year ago in another apartment on my floor, and it took four days to get anything done about it. Hopefully that won't happen this time. We're petter armed with emergency phone numbers for the management company, so hopefully we can get it dealt with quickly.
So between all of these I have a pounding headache. Which makes it difficult to get any real work done (especially since I only have a vague idea of what work I should be doing).
On the plus side, planning to go out with Angie later. We might go to an outdoor concert, if we can be nothered...
