i'm jumping rope, look at my butt

...wait, that should've been the title for the last post. Amy, what were you thinking?

Anyway, i'm posting something because i've been at work for over 34 hours and will be here for another 10 or 12 at least. I just want to feel like work is not happening, so this will probably not go anywhere and will probably ramble on about work and miss the point anyway.

It all started with a conference call including mucho directors and a VP. There's a major project this weekend and the weather was suggested as a threat. "We don't want our people to have to drive in that stuff." Hey, that was awful nice. "Well, it is a 24x7 operation, couldn't the key people just arrive and stay at the NOC before the weather starts?" Unfortunately, it was a point that couldn't be argued and so i offered before i got ordered. So yesterday (Friday) I came it at noon (note: after doing some work from home in the morning) and have been here since. To be fair, they offered to get me a room at the Holtze a few blocks away, but i didn't wanna have to deal with checking in and out and possibly logging in from the hotel since i'm on call anyway. It's not the first time i've slept at work and i'm actually kind of used to it and feel more comfortable at work than at a hotel i've only frequented once (unless you count the multiple times i've piggybacked on traveling co-workers for the free food and drinks from 5-6 in the lobby.)

So we finished the project at 8. But Amy had called around 6:30 to say that our internet was down (most of the Warrensburg area for Charter, at least) and guess who is still on call. No way to log in from home without internet. Oh well, i'm tired and don't feel like driving home in the dark on the ice anyway. And these systems need a babysitter for the first 12 hours or so anyway. So in an hour and a half it will be 3 days at work (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) but i'm determined to get out of here before noon tomorrow so i don't hit 48 hours.

At least they found those two boys and i'm eating a Chipotle...