False Alarms

I'm finally back from Europe but my clock apparently hasn't made the jump back to Minnesota time as evidenced by the fact that I was up at 3:30 this morning after only getting 4 hours sleep and being up 23 hours previous to that. However, if you are eagerly awaiting posts on Europe, I'm somewhat sad to say that you will be sorely disappointed today and you'll just have to face the disappointment.

However, today I did have an interesting episode while working from my couch (it's Friday, yes I get to work from my couch... or my bed... or wherever else I want to. It almost makes sync-ing my personal Blackberry to work email and IM so I can work on the go. You know, on the trail, in the car, at the store, maybe even at a movie. But, I'm not quite that insane to actually want to give up my personal phone for work so here I am on my couch.)

So, I'm sitting on my couch working away since 4:30 this morning with stacks of mail around me and trying to schedule a dentist appt when all of a sudden in the middle of a call, the fire alarm in my apartment building actually went off. To be honest, it took me a few moments to actually comprehend what the noise was. I got off the phone with the dentist since she couldn't hear me anyway and thought, really... is this just a fire drill? Dumb me, all I grab are my apartment keys, my phone, and of all things that is completely unnecessary, my security key fob to log in to my work computer, which of course I had left sitting on the couch. No car keys, no important documents... nothing. Dumb. After the firemen showed up they finally let us back in the building and I headed back to my apartment where there were two firemen standing close to my door.

Me: uhhhh... are we allowed to come back in?

Firemen: yes

Me: ok (heading for my door)

Firemen: You don't happen to live in XXXX, do you?

Me: ummm... yes, actually I do.

Firemen: Well, the alarm right outside your door is the one that went off. We knocked and no one was here, obviously since you evacuated. Were you cooking?

Me: No.... do you want to check my apartment?

Firemen: No, that's fine. We couldn't smell anything anyway.

So, odd day of odd days, I actually had to evacuate but I'm not sure what set off the alarm in the hall.