The original plan for this week was pretty nice: Saturday & Sunday off, work Monday, Tuesday off for the Fourth of July, work Wednesday, and then take Thursday through Monday off for Shore Leave. Or, put another way, two off, one on, one off, one on, five off. If you have to go to work, that’s not a bad way to do it.
After a fun weekend that included the Germantown fireworks, I showed up at work on Monday, raring to go. I got there right around 9:00 and not only was the power out (rumor has it there was a fire on the lines and the fire department cut them), but at some point the emergency generator had run out of oil and now there were no lights in the stairwells and the key card system was dead. (Folks could leave the office, but they couldn’t go back in.) Around 45 minutes later the first manager from our group arrived and after a short interval, started telling people to go home. (At this point the lights had been out for three hours with no known timeline for a resolution.)
Cool! Now I effectively had a four-day weekend, a one-day work week, and a five-day weekend. Now that’s the way to do it! (Especially since I didn’t have to use any extra vacation days.)
The lights went out at home for two hours on the fourth, so I thought it would be kind of fitting if my only remaining work day this week was canceled due to a third outage, but no such luck.
But it was still a great way to spend a holiday work week!