I've been on-call at work since the 4th, the date of my last post.

It was the most active on-call I've had since starting with this company. Beginning with Tuesday's air handler meltdown, I had a total of three calls, all three of which were for one of my piers and required me to go down to it.

Tuesday was the air handler. Saturday I got a call around 6PM that my (Kreasote®-soaked wooden) pier had caught fire and the fire department had cut a hole in it. Erm.

OK. Jump in the car and zoom down to my pier, visions of Luna Park burning running through my mind and I find...this.

Upon talking with a coupe of the piers' restaurant workers, I found out that it was a cigarette fire and that one of them had dumped a pot of water on it to put it out. Following procedure, someone called the SFD and they cut a hole and really soaked the bugger.

I'm still surprised at the smallness of the hole.

I patched it with a piece of plywood.

Three o'clock Tuesday morning, the pager went off and I got the Elbow Of Doom in the ribs from Miss Significantly Other.

The alarm company had received a low air alarm and a water flow alarm from the pier.

Just before I headed out the door, the answering service called again to tell me that the SFD wanted to let me know that there was no fire but that something had broken a portion of the under-pier sprinkler system.

At least the pier wasn't on fire again.

What happens is this: flotsam and jetsam get pushed toward the shoreline of the bay and under the piers along the bay by wind and wave action. When the tide comes in, this bay junk (broken pilings, hunks of dock wood, dead cats) rises with it and bangs around on the under-dock infrastructure. We get poopie line breaks and sprinkler smashies, mostly.

The boss came down as he has to do in all cases where the fire panel goes off and I went back home to change and take my morning meds. I got back at 5AM and started in with my daily routine.

I left at 1:30 - you damnbetcha!

And now here it is Wednesday and I survived another week of being on call. The best part is that I'm takingoff the next two days and doing not a damn thing! Woot! Four-day weekend, here I be!

Oh yeah, we have our annual gathering of Hawaii-minded people on Saturday, too. So my weekend is made and hopefully in the shade!