Wednesday 05/22/2024
Took the standard walk, which went fine, except a couple hours later my hip was not exactly painful but just kind of sensitive and I noticed it made me walk in a slightly unnatural way. Ibuprofen is your friend — for now.
At 10:30 was a meeting called by Rhonda, with a presentation by Bert, on the response to the fire alarm of Saturday night (5.169). It wasn’t good. They went over at length the meaning of “shelter in place” and how a lot of what went on was unsafe and unproductive. For example, people (a) using the elevators at all (b) to go up to the 10th floor to see what was going on. People calling the front desk to ask why the fire alarm was sounding. At least I knew not to do that. But so many fools did, that the front desk person, who handled the incident in a highly professional way, actually missed an important incoming call because the phone system was jammed. And some dopes actually yelled at her and got angry.
I did two wrong things. One, I left my room, went to the lounge. Two, when I did leave the room, I did not actually check for fire. You’re supposed to touch the door to see if it’s hot. Well, you know? I think if there was fire in the hallway, I would have noticed when I touched the metal door handle. Things I did right? I put on pants, shoes, and a hoodie before I went out. There were people walking around in robes and slippers.
Nobody is happy about how loud the alarm is, even less happy about the flashing strobe light. The strobe is to wake up people who are hard of hearing. A few people had physical reactions to the strobe. But the worst part of it is, the alarm sound and light go on and on — 45 minutes this time. That’s because it can only be silenced by a Fire Department person, and that will only happen after the Fire Department person has determined there is no further risk, and goes down to the basement, using the stairs because they don’t trust elevators, to turn it off. 45 minutes of BLAAAAT (flash) BLAAAAT (flash) BLAAAAT (flash). Rhonda promises to take this up again with the PAFD however there are city, county and state regulations.
Anyway, at 3 we had our monthly AV team meeting, and quickly settled who would do what for the coming month.
Codgerville 