FRIDAY THE 13th! [GET ON!!]

**THATriggerHappy** · 08-13-10, 12:42 PM

lmao i can't get on right now but i'll try in a little bit

**Dusk** · 08-13-10, 12:44 PM

You know I'll be on all night rockin it

. ITS THE FREAKIN WEEKEND!!! YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE NOT TO BE ONLINE!

Was gonna say this is my "lucky day", as most Friday 13th's are, but I overslept and missed work today (damn phone alarm decided not to go off) :/ Not really that lucky. Hopefully tonight will compensate for that, lol.

**Toad** · 08-13-10, 12:57 PM

At a field site we recently had a piece of power equipment fail, that has been in the field for 15+ years and never failed. No one knew what to do with it so we called the site that bought the old company and they said "yeah we have someone that can probably fix it" although we don't think he's actually worked on that equipment. They don't have much in the way of spares and the issue was due to a power surge through a poorly spec'd fuse so it's probably going to be bad. This is the one time of the month that the backup system might not be available since it's being restarted but they wanted to do it tonight anyway. I had done most of the research but I can't be on site because I'm almost as far as I could possibly be away from the site and still be in the USA (I'm in Alaska), flying back on a red eye and completely unavailable by cell for that time period. We're not sure if we're even going to be able to isolate power from the equipment because the switch hasn't been used in 15 years, but everyone's like "Hey, what could go wrong" and then I realized "It's Friday the 13th"...

So I won't be on tonight, but likely someone will be getting electrocuted and we'lll be having a massive air traffic control outage, so hopefully that's cool enough.

**Toker** · 08-13-10, 01:04 PM

Originally Posted by THATriggerHappy

lmao i can't get on right now but i'll try in a little bit

Just don't go too much on a rampage like you did yesterday.

Originally Posted by Dusk

You know I'll be on all night rockin it

. ITS THE FREAKIN WEEKEND!!! YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE NOT TO BE ONLINE!

Was gonna say this is my "lucky day", as most Friday 13th's are, but I overslept and missed work today (damn phone alarm decided not to go off) :/ Not really that lucky. Hopefully tonight will compensate for that, lol.

I have a guy doing some tile work at my house right now. He's doing a great job, but if I hear some screaming, it'll probably be safe to assume that he may have just lost a limb.

See ya on!

Originally Posted by Toad

At a field site we recently had a piece of power equipment fail, that has been in the field for 15+ years and never failed. No one knew what to do with it so we called the site that bought the old company and they said "yeah we have someone that can probably fix it" although we don't think he's actually worked on that equipment. They don't have much in the way of spares and the issue was due to a power surge through a poorly spec'd fuse so it's probably going to be bad. This is the one time of the month that the backup system might not be available since it's being restarted but they wanted to do it tonight anyway. I had done most of the research but I can't be on site because I'm almost as far as I could possibly be away from the site and still be in the USA (I'm in Alaska), flying back on a red eye and completely unavailable by cell for that time period. We're not sure if we're even going to be able to isolate power from the equipment because the switch hasn't been used in 15 years, but everyone's like "Hey, what could go wrong" and then I realized "It's Friday the 13th"...

So I won't be on tonight, but likely someone will be getting electrocuted and we'lll be having a massive air traffic control outage, so hopefully that's cool enough.

WOW. Try to get some rest and I hope everything turns out OK. Jeesh...