Since Friday, our dog has been vibrating in terror. He’s a little heated vibrating pillow snuggled head down under the covers. Given that the weather has been spectacular, I spent the weekend waiting for the earthquake/tsunami/solar flare to hit.
Finally, today it rained, and the dog sighed long and hard and fell fast asleep.
Since Friday, Gary has been vibrating in terror. He’s a big hot vibrating husband bouncing straight-legged like a pogo stick around the furniture. And, the screaming, the screaming, about THE SULFURIC ACID FUMES coming out of the new hardware in his data center. And finally, the perfect data center storm broke and Gary has sighed long and hard and is at this moment, asleep.
It appears that the new UPS in his data center has been overheating all the brand new backup batteries and boiling the battery acid causing it to release as a sulfuric acid fog. And, ask me if I am glad to know how to look up the dangers of sulfuric acid thanks to my work on the Cold-Sweat Chemistry Project of Horror.
Gary dreams of disasters like this all day and all night. He mentally prepares for this with every thought. If he were a Secret Service Agent, this would be an assassination attempt. If he were a flight attendant, the plane would be going down. And I’ve never seen him more composed.
Jeez. He’s snoring now.
4 responses to “The Breaking of the Perfect Storm”
Just once I wish Hubs would notice something like that. I am usually the one who has to point out the cat is running through the house on fire, or the smoke detector is going off (yes, he sleeps through it). So, does this mean Gary just wore himself out or did he solve the problem?
Sue – I think Gary was able to relax once the disaster fell. As soon a sit fell, he could get on with the business of fixing it. It isn’t fixed yet, but at least he doesn’t have to anticipate it.And no, NO, you do not want someone who shrieks “Burning! I smell something BURNING!” every time you turn on the stove.
And, people, seriously, “He’s a big hot vibrating husband..” you just let that slide?
Nope, it didn’t slide a bit… just wasn’t gonna touch it. 🙂