Detour for the detour
I made sure to leave for work early yesterday for week two of the Route 38 detour. Since the road hadn't yet been closed last Monday, I wasn't sure what to expect. Remember, I have a staff meeting on Monday morning, so I leave a lot earlier than normal. I pass by several schools on this detour; if the school zone was in effect, things could get hairy.
So I'm on Fabyan heading up to 38, and I'm to the point where Fabyan goes from one lane to three and almost four approaching the intersection. I see a fair amount of cars either going east on 38 or making the right-hand turn from Fabyan to 38--and there are no orange signs to be seen. Ohmigosh! They finished the construction! They were very efficient, I must say. Hooray! I make sure nobody else is coming, because now I'm in the left lane, and move over the other two lanes so I'm in the right turn lane. Sweet! And no more detour to worry about. Phew. I was so early, I was able to stop for gas with no issues--a good thing, since gas went up 40¢ today, yikes. The only drawback: I was so early, nobody else was at work, and the dock door was locked, meaning I had to walk all the way around to the front to go in. I only have a key to our back door, not the dock that gets me into the access area for our back door. Here's the thing: There's an alarm, and the alarm is next to the back door, and you only have about 10 seconds from when you open the door until the alarm starts going off. You have to book it back there if you must come in the front. I…was not aware of how quickly one needed to get there. I now know how loud the alarm is. Guess what: It's loud.
…Lesson learned.
So we're at the meeting, and I casually say to my boss, so, should someone go in the front door and not make it in time before the alarm goes off, is that something you're alerted to? Asking for a friend.
(Yeah, I really did add that last part. That made a few people chortle.)
Also, with different people working on Saturdays now, specifically people who don't normally work in this building and aren't aware of what to do upon leaving, not everything is happening the way it should. As I made my way back toward my workstation--in the dark--I could see the glowing light on the coffee machine. Oh, no, someone left the coffee on all weekend. Not only should the machine be off, but unplugged as well. The coffee was…thick and crunchy by yesterday morning. Luckily we didn't have any other issues, but that could have been bad.
Meanwhile, back on Fabyan closer to my house, there were signs about fixing the railroad crossing on 25. This is several miles before Fabyan crosses 38, and I was like, oh wow, they're really going to town on fixing the railroad crossings, aren't they? I think I might have joked to myself, I wonder if they just moved the other signs but changed the route number? I had no idea then that the 38 construction was done, so when I got up there and the signs were gone, then I *really* started wondering. Better, I was trying to figure out where that crossing was. I'm thinking it's on the south end of town, past Funway, because there are no railroad tracks on 25 between Fabyan and downtown. Going north into Geneva, there's a bridge over those tracks, and I don't think you hit tracks again until you're into South Elgin--and again, there's a bridge. Dad had seen the Route 25 detour signs too and that's what he figured. Hopefully that work goes quickly as well, because the detour is trying to keep them out of downtown Batavia, where the bridge is just two lanes, and having them take 25, cross the river at Fabyan, and turn south on 31. That bridge is a pain on most days coming home, because they didn't accommodate the left-turn lanes on the bridge, only on terra firma, so there's room for only so many cars. It's kind of a pain. But, hey, if it's just a week like the other repairs, I guess I can deal.
So I'm on Fabyan heading up to 38, and I'm to the point where Fabyan goes from one lane to three and almost four approaching the intersection. I see a fair amount of cars either going east on 38 or making the right-hand turn from Fabyan to 38--and there are no orange signs to be seen. Ohmigosh! They finished the construction! They were very efficient, I must say. Hooray! I make sure nobody else is coming, because now I'm in the left lane, and move over the other two lanes so I'm in the right turn lane. Sweet! And no more detour to worry about. Phew. I was so early, I was able to stop for gas with no issues--a good thing, since gas went up 40¢ today, yikes. The only drawback: I was so early, nobody else was at work, and the dock door was locked, meaning I had to walk all the way around to the front to go in. I only have a key to our back door, not the dock that gets me into the access area for our back door. Here's the thing: There's an alarm, and the alarm is next to the back door, and you only have about 10 seconds from when you open the door until the alarm starts going off. You have to book it back there if you must come in the front. I…was not aware of how quickly one needed to get there. I now know how loud the alarm is. Guess what: It's loud.
…Lesson learned.
So we're at the meeting, and I casually say to my boss, so, should someone go in the front door and not make it in time before the alarm goes off, is that something you're alerted to? Asking for a friend.
(Yeah, I really did add that last part. That made a few people chortle.)
Also, with different people working on Saturdays now, specifically people who don't normally work in this building and aren't aware of what to do upon leaving, not everything is happening the way it should. As I made my way back toward my workstation--in the dark--I could see the glowing light on the coffee machine. Oh, no, someone left the coffee on all weekend. Not only should the machine be off, but unplugged as well. The coffee was…thick and crunchy by yesterday morning. Luckily we didn't have any other issues, but that could have been bad.
Meanwhile, back on Fabyan closer to my house, there were signs about fixing the railroad crossing on 25. This is several miles before Fabyan crosses 38, and I was like, oh wow, they're really going to town on fixing the railroad crossings, aren't they? I think I might have joked to myself, I wonder if they just moved the other signs but changed the route number? I had no idea then that the 38 construction was done, so when I got up there and the signs were gone, then I *really* started wondering. Better, I was trying to figure out where that crossing was. I'm thinking it's on the south end of town, past Funway, because there are no railroad tracks on 25 between Fabyan and downtown. Going north into Geneva, there's a bridge over those tracks, and I don't think you hit tracks again until you're into South Elgin--and again, there's a bridge. Dad had seen the Route 25 detour signs too and that's what he figured. Hopefully that work goes quickly as well, because the detour is trying to keep them out of downtown Batavia, where the bridge is just two lanes, and having them take 25, cross the river at Fabyan, and turn south on 31. That bridge is a pain on most days coming home, because they didn't accommodate the left-turn lanes on the bridge, only on terra firma, so there's room for only so many cars. It's kind of a pain. But, hey, if it's just a week like the other repairs, I guess I can deal.