Last night was a typical Friday night….well it turned into one when I got out of work. Before that point it was most certainly not.
Around five ish last night was finishing up normal stuff for the weekend, making sure all my changes were saved and all checked in correctly. I followed the exact same procedure I have always done for this. However something somewhere was wrong and the log window I received was well wrong. Not just a little wrong but hideously wrong. Instead of just looking after my work, it had changed things for the entire global projects teams.
Cue a couple of frantic ims stateside…no joy. Cue a couple of frantic phone calls stateside…no joy. Eventually I got through to someone who would be able to contact the right people. Of course it its the Friday of a long weekend in the US and lots of them are taking time off.
At this stage the log is looking worse and worse by the second. So the conversation goes something like this.
US: “blah is in a meeting at the moment, I know where he is”
me: “I think you might want to go and get him”
US: “I think I’ll go and get him, hold on”
So we got someone on the line who knew the systems or at least had people who worked for him that knew the systems and left it in his hopefully more than capable hands.
At which stage I sent a mail with the log, the steps I had used and my out of hours contact number and headed for the pub. It is a) the weekend and b) my boss is away on holiday otherwise I’d have given him a ring. I can wait till Monday I guess, all further work has been suspended for a few days.
A typical Friday night then ensued. Just the four of us down there but we had some drinks and some laughs. Of particular fun was the argument over who played Clarice in Hannibal, with one of the lads phoning up his local video store and Blockbuster to ask them if they knew or would mind going and checking on the shelf. Unsurprisingly they were busy and unable to help 😉
Cue attempted internet access from the pub corner. A massive effort involving one palm pilot, one PDA and four internet capable mobile phones. It was really quite funny, what was even more funny was that despite the four of us have the tech to get online and indeed working the relevant departments we failed miserably.
In the end we just phoned a friend and it was indeed Julianne Moore. We laughed 🙂
After that with one of the lads heading home the rest of us headed across the road to Pizza Express for some dinner. A nice pizza was had alongside some nice cheesecake, coffee and a whiskey chaser. It was all good.
What was better was the gorgeous girl sitting right opposite me. Not just opposite me but as there was three of us at a four seater table and the spare seat was directly in front of me everytime I looked up I was looking straight at her. Oh the horror. She had a friend with her aswell and when there was just two of us left finishing our drinks as the other fella had to get a train we briefly considered ya know doing something fucked up and actually talking to them, but well didn’t. Which is a shame because she seemed really nice and they had at least acknowledged our presence earlier in the evening.
So we finished our drinks and headed home our separate ways. I got in around eleven and while I intended going straight to bed, I ended up watching another episode of CSI and then sleeping for close on 12 hours straight.
I have this complete urge today to not do anything at all. Ideally to be able to go to bed later tonight without having put on shoes and socks at any stage. But I think I have to go and get some food for tonight and I want to collect my comics and I’m thinking that I really want to go and see Insomnia