As Luke mentioned, there was a phone call at 4 a.m. notifying me that the webservers I work on were not working.
After about 30 minutes of sleepy-eyed hacking, I figured out the problem (which I later attributed to not one, but two bugs in the code that happened to combine together to cause a coredump upon the server restart) and went back to sleep.
The two ironies in this stem from two separate conversations that I just had yesterday:
One was a brief in-passing mention on how stable our servers were with a co-worker. The other was me complaining to Luke that he could sleep through anything, and I always woke up, in reference to the garbage men.
And then, why is it that it’s the morning after you get woken up at 4 a.m. (and didn’t fall back asleep until at least 5:30) that you get a bunch of frantic changes that have to be made by 11 a.m., because the east coast client has to see them?
This is the first time I’ve been called in the middle of the night. I pray it never happens again.
My theory on it is this, i can include brief loud noises into my dreams. I think this is because my bedroom was situated above the living room tv, and next to the tv in my grandma’s room. They listened to it rather loudly when i was trying to sleep at times.
The problem with the phone is it’s repetitive. I don’t really know how long it was ringing before i woke up, but the fact remains, i can sleep through loud noises much easier than i can sleep through repetitive ones.
Though i suppose the trash men are kinda repetitive too.. perhaps it’s easier to include crashing in dreams than it is ringing. THough i do recall times in which i dreamt my alarm clock was a fire alarm. and evacuated the building.. in my dream. I used to sleep through fire drills at clark kerr too.. bleargh.. i am gonna die in a fire someday.