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entombed in the shrine of zeroes and ones ([personal profile] rone) wrote2008-12-29 04:57 pm
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on call

Nagios schmagios
Ron Echeverri's phone
wakes him up late with a
clamorous beep

Stumbling half-naked, he
somnambulistlically
fixes the problem and
goes back to sleep

a pesky nagios doth not a happy sysad make

[identity profile] madmerle.livejournal.com 2008-12-30 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad it was something you could fix on autopilot, tho! =)

I don't envy you. That's one huge advantage to being a Tier-1 where I work: no on-call duty. We only have to deal with pages during our shift. It's the Tier-2's that can get awakened at all hours of the day or night. Ugh. Hope there are no more mosquitos (or worse) while you're on...
ext_86356: (alien)

[identity profile] qwrrty.livejournal.com 2008-12-30 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
Nice! May I suggest "with clamorous beeps" for the first verse? That avoids rhyming "sleep" with itself.
ext_8707: Taken in front of Carnegie Hall (mesna)

[identity profile] ronebofh.livejournal.com 2008-12-30 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm, i did think of throwing a 'beep' in there, but i gave up too quickly. Let me fix it.

[identity profile] en-ki.livejournal.com 2008-12-30 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
Works except for the second line.
ext_8707: Taken in front of Carnegie Hall (brock)

[identity profile] ronebofh.livejournal.com 2008-12-30 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, yeah, what are you, the double dactyl police? Get outta here.

[identity profile] en-ki.livejournal.com 2008-12-30 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Actually, [livejournal.com profile] hitchhiker is the double dactyl police. I'm in the double dactyl junior G-men.

"Cellular telephone" scans.
ext_8707: Taken in front of Carnegie Hall (invincirone)

[identity profile] ronebofh.livejournal.com 2008-12-30 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
Pff, some junior G-man you are. You need a name in there; i thought you were complaining that my name isn't a double dactyl.

[identity profile] en-ki.livejournal.com 2008-12-30 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
Problem solved: change your name to Cellular Telephone.

Whatever you do

[identity profile] notr.livejournal.com 2008-12-30 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
don't fix the "lick" out of your somnambulism. OM IS A HOLOGRAM

[identity profile] wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com 2008-12-30 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
Excellent poetry!

[identity profile] sunburn.livejournal.com 2008-12-30 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
I just got laid off after 11 years of working for SCIENCE, and I see a jorb like this in my future. At least you can do it in your sleep!

[identity profile] dwell.livejournal.com 2008-12-30 07:23 am (UTC)(link)
i got called too! except it was at 3:30pm, i had been awake for 2 hours and all i could've written (if i cared to write anything at all) would have been:

fuck

bt

[identity profile] kawgirl.livejournal.com 2008-12-30 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
At least you can respond to your calls somnambulistically! I'm not allowed to show up to the hospital asleep...
ext_8707: Taken in front of Carnegie Hall (eschaton event)

[identity profile] ronebofh.livejournal.com 2008-12-30 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh, Christmas layoffs are SO COOL.

[identity profile] epileptikitty.livejournal.com 2009-01-01 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Who will rid me of this turbulent beep?

Hyperic is free too. It is the lizard to Nagios' fish.