Computer..Turn yourself off September 16, 2005
Posted by spacemom in : Life...otherwise , trackbackSO here I was, 11:45pm, giving Luna a bottle. All I hear is “beep”. Ok, last I knew, my child didn’t make cheesey electronic sounds. She passed out in my arms at 12:00am (whoohoo!) and I put her in her crib. Then I started to investigate. After searching the house, I discovered it was my cell phone! Our automatic alert system at work was paging me because there were “red violations” of our instrument.
Long story short, our instrument received a spurious command to turn itself off! Yikes! Most likely, this is due to all of the solar storms we’ve been having. However, I didn’t see a single email from the person on duty, my boss. So I did what any employee would do, I called his house at 12:10am! He actually never heard the alarms and my team mate had awoken him 10 minutes earlier.
He called our house at 1:30am to ask Dr. Jay some questions (Dr. Jay and I work on the same spacecraft), and then this afternoon, we got things working again.
Wow, my mom and work life clashed! Cool. But seriously, I am glad that all is well.
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