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Conference vaxcat::friends

Title:Welcome to Friends!
Moderator:POWDML::VENTURA
Created:Mon Mar 09 1992
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:437
Total number of notes:35174

97.0. "The funniest thing happened today!!" by --UnknownUser-- () Thu Sep 10 1992 17:41

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97.1Time???DASHER::RALSTONWho says I can't?Wed Oct 12 1994 20:4813
    During the night time flip-flopped. As many of us do, I woke in the
    middle of the night to take care of bathroom business. When I looked at
    the clock, next to my bed, it read 3:21. I flopped back in bed and fell
    asleep immediately. What seemed like many hours later I again woke for
    the same reason. As this is most unusual for me, I looked at the clock
    to see how long I had been sleeping since the last time. The clock read
    
    			1:16
    
    I went right back to sleep then woke to my alarm at 5:15.
    I am still feeling a little strange about what happened. 
    
    ...Tom
97.2there's always an explanation!POOKY::OROURKEI'll_sleep_when_I'm_deadWed Oct 12 1994 20:588
    Tom,
    
    You weren't by any chance on a plane flying across time zones were you?
    
    :^)
    
    /jen
    
97.3maybe you read the clock wrong!EARRTH::DREYERLove me, love my cats!Wed Oct 12 1994 21:015
Tom,

Are you sure it wasn't 4:16 the second time you woke up?

Lola
97.4DASHER::RALSTONWho says I can't?Wed Oct 12 1994 23:583
    I checked it twice. I figured that it must be Digitalitis!
    
    ...Tom
97.5SUBPAC::SADINgeneric, PC personal name.Thu Oct 13 1994 13:246

	you'll have to teach me that trick sometime! I could use more sleep...


chico
97.6Strange occurancesEARRTH::DREYERLove me, love my cats!Thu Oct 13 1994 15:2110
Steve and I have recently had some peculiar night clock readouts also.
One night I kept waking up and the first time the clock read 1:11.  The next
time I woke up it was 2:22, then 3:33.  It was kinda spooky.

Steve had this happen last week, the first time he woke up it was 1:10, then
something like 2:11 and 3:12, one hour and one minute between each interval.

Maybe the aliens are playing tricks on us.

Lola
97.7DASHER::RALSTONWho says I can't?Thu Oct 13 1994 15:257
    I must be getting old. I remember, as a teenager, when I could sleep 12
    hours without getting up one time. Now if I only wake up once in a six
    hour period it is a great accomplishment. I wonder, do people in their
    60's and beyond sleep only 30 minutes between middle of the night
    pitstops?
    
    ...Tom
97.8QCAADC::RAVISHANKARChocoholics Inc. (estd 1966)Thu Oct 13 1994 15:2711
    
    Hey Tom !!
    
    	Mebbe the LED on yer clock is misbehaving... It can't show a
    '0'...many led's have been known to do so... I think the first time you
    woke up it was 0:31.... *8))))
    
    FWIW
    
    Ravi.
    *8)
97.9RANGER::REITHThu Oct 13 1994 15:4212
In highschool I had a time when I was woken up at 12 minutes past the hour
regularly. It turned out that the flip numbers on my radio made a noise at that
point and if I was sleeping lightly, I'd hear it and wake up. Turned out to be a
burr on one of the gears that caused a squeak.

In cases where it's a regular interval, it's probably some periodic function of
the house like the fridge cycling off and rattling something on top. the loss of
cool in a fridge overnight without being opened is pretty constant/regular. I
know mine rattles slightly when the compressor turns off and then it's EXTRA
quiet in the house. We have a dog and cats so I've stopped listening to house
noises. As the joke goes, if someone comes to the door, the doorbell will bark
8^)
97.108*))MASALA::JJACKCoca-Cola Red Hot CelticThu Oct 13 1994 16:3917
    
    The funniest thing happened to me today as well. I set my alarm for 
    five.....which is weird in itself, as there were only two of us.
    I got up & stroked the pussy (She's a tabby with ginger stripes named
    Jilly) and then went into the toilet (head first straight into it, as
    I tripped over my willie (That's my dog, a 4 year old Cairn Terrier).
    
    I then went downstairs & answered the door (Well, it asked me a sports
    question). I opened the door & a young lady asked me for diredtions. I
    immediately ran back upstairs & put mu underpants on. When I came back
    down she had gone. She had left a note which said, "For God
    sake....don't go into the FRIENDS conference today. You see, they think
    you were serious with your LFT last week & now they've gone all humpity
    with you".
    I said, "I don't care....I'm BACK !!"
    
     
97.11SUBPAC::SADINgeneric, PC personal name.Thu Oct 13 1994 17:195
    
    
    	egad.....:*)
    
    
97.12RANGER::REITHThu Oct 13 1994 17:231
Speaking of JJack... what ever happened to BBob?
97.13KIRKTN::SWRIGHTUno CoCa Cola PorfavorFri Oct 14 1994 14:511
    Or even Bbags...??