Ruzty's Journal: Of pagers and trains

The last express train into the city leaves at 8:12AM. It takes 41 minutes and gets me to work just before 9AM. All trains into the city after that arrive about 1/2 past the hour and take about 1 hour 15 minutes to get downtown.

My freakin pager went off at 8:07AM. I was only 10 minutes from home and could be online fixing the problem within 15 minutes via dialup. They only page for production emergencies, right? So I call in to find out what is going on and get told to "hold on a second". The train pulls into the station and I make the executive decision to not board it. The train pulls away and the ops guy comes back on the phone. "Oh, it was a rulebase distribution problem. Harry, Rob and Dennis are fixing it, sorry about that." he says.

After hanging up the phone and swearing loudly for about 20 seconds I give in to the reality that I will be 45 minutes late to work. I power up my TiBook, resume my compile of QT and start back in on the PHP page I was working on yesterday. At least I got some coding done on the long ass train ride...