En Trance
Wed Nov 16 2005

Once again my rants about new office. 

Today they’ve changed the entrance security system. For some sophisticated (not) thing, that now neatly superglued to the door-post. And we all have been equipped with those little black “thingies” with a funny name “fobs”. To enter building you supposed to “wobble your fob” in front of the little evil box and hope that somehow it’ll recognise you. Now this is all fine and the fob fits perfectly with 5 other keys that I’ve got on my keyring (well, you’ve got to open many doors for this job, you know). And the fob-reader-me-thingy from inside is right beside the door, so you just walk by and accidentally flap your wings with the fob attached, of course, and the door will open like Seasame. The other story is from outside though. The fob reader has been placed somewhere away from the door itself, in a distance of few steps, but you’ve got to do them, not just reach out, unless, of course your arms are in Guinness Records Book. So…I haven’t tested yet how many seconds you’ve got between clocking in your fob and jumping back to the door before it closed…I suspect tomorrow will be a day of trials in our office…perhaps, we’ll even organise contest…anyway…my premature complain would be that I can’t imagine how one would do this fob-leaping thing while carrying equipment. And by “equipment” I mean computers and monitors. Well, given the nature of our business being IT support, sooner or later somebody bound to bring in equipment…I mean we do have daily deliveries sometimes…anyway, that was my ranting thought on my way out of the office today…

On the other hand…the evening is so magical! We have full moon (at least she appears like one) and very black skies…not a single star visible…that kind of night when you’d put out a saucer with milk outside your door for any werewolves that might happened to walk by…
7 Comments
  • From:
    IsolatedHell (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Nov 16 2005
    I have a fasination with the moon and her cycles, it never fails to mesmerizer me.~smiles~
  • From:
    Dreamerbooks2003 (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Nov 16 2005
    wobbling the fob.. Oh my.. sound positively phalic
    or something worse.
    :P
    You are a joy
  • From:
    Pragmatist (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Nov 16 2005
    I can see the point of the fob if your company is working on classified stuff, or maybe protecting their patent rights to whatever it is the company does. But the screener so far from the entrance that you have to hurry to make it to the door before it closes? Now that's silly. Counter-productive, even.

    Oh, I know the solution. You have a fob partner. You stand by the door, and your partner waves at the screener. You stand in the middle of the entry until your partner can make it to the open door. That would work. Right?

    Shalom

  • From:
    Misstick (Unauthenticated) (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Nov 16 2005
    I just couldn't help but rolling on the floor from laughter at the above comment!
    FOB PARTNER!
    Now that is a suggestion! Anyone wish to be my Fob Partner? ;-)) [~giggles]
  • From:
    Pragmatist (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Nov 16 2005
    I don't know what happened. Just this morning I found that the links work. In Internet Explorer. I don't have to use that inefficient Outlook Express any more. Wahooo!!!

    Always happy to share a laugh.

    Shalom
  • From:
    Kordelle (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Nov 17 2005
    lovely Lana you are too brave putting out milk for the werewolves you dont believe they will come therefore they will not

    now lovely Lana here is something about your beloved egypt so I viewed a film on egypt and the way they transported ramses tomb and then in cairo there is this lone huge figure of ramse looking down at his descendants in the city square so hilarious and wonderful at the same time

    did you see it as being incongruent this tall stone figure torn from his tall forestfort of ancient stone was it worth the wandering and the low traffic circling beneath him trying to drive through the gates of time to behold the image
  • From:
    Kordelle (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Nov 18 2005
    I love this poetry about the werewolf
    it sounds so cute lapping up milk at list it is nutritious

    you spoil me rotten Lana