My office will be moving in the next few months. We’re heading to a much nicer place, more centrally located for our clients, easier to find and more publicly visible. The new office is a touch smaller, but we’re getting secondary space off site for an auxiliary location too, which will give us both storage and a place to hide and work on tight deadline projects.
One thing I need to do for this is set up a map of the lights in the two locations, so that I can start testing a theory we’ve got. Y’see, it seems like most of the burnt out bulbs we have to deal with are located above wherever my desk happens to be.
Seriously. When I was sitting at the desk in the southeast corner of the room, the lights there burnt out twice.
When I was doing a lot of work at the server in the southwest corner, the light there burnt out.
When we brought WorkKevin on board, I moved to the desk in the northwest corner. This morning the light above my desk was dark. Again. It’s the third time this fixture has needed a new bulb in two years.
The guys claim that they’ve never had a light bulb burn out when I’m on vacation. Usually it’ll happen in the days just before I go on vacation, or within a few days after I get back.
It could just be a fluke. It could be because I’ve been moving to wherever the bulbs are oldest or the wiring is the most flakey.
But in the new office, I’m going to start tracking bulb outages. We’ll see if there’s a random distribution or if there’s a pattern.
If there IS a pattern… I’ll just have to find some way to use my newfound powers for good, instead of evil!
Man. That would be the LAMEST superpower ever.
“Criminals beware! I, Blackout Man, shall.. um.. mildly inconvenience you with my amazing.. um.. Lightbulb blowing out. I’ll wait for you to stand on a really tippy chair to change the bulb, and then you’ll be sorry! Or you could just use a flashlight. Or a candle or something. Those infa-red goggles they have in spy movies would be really nifty, I suppose.”
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