From Taiwan to Canada to Following Up on Previous Blogs

Great! Someone based in Taiwan has been posting comments on my blog which has pornographic links. It appears that way anyhow, even though the main page of the website doesn’t show nude women or men, it does show suggestive photos. I wouldn’t know what the Chinese characters mean and I’m not interested in translating them. For all I know it could be a Chinese dating site. On a positive note, some people from Canada has been reading my blog and posting some comments too. They are fellow runners with similar goals, ailments and love for running. To our friends from the North, thanks for reading and commenting, ey.

This blog received 53 hits last Monday, February 15. That’s quite substantial for me. My previous high was 52 a few weeks ago and that entry was about running. Monday’s entry had to do with my job and the problems we had with the electrically locked doors on the psych unit which malfunctioned.

Let me follow up on what happened that night. An electrician who works for the vendor of the electric doors showed up at about 3 A.M. to try to repair the circuits. We were told that another fuse had blown and he replaced it. However there were still some glitches and he spent another hour or so diagnosing the problem. We jokingly threatened to tie him in leather restraints if he didn’t fix the problem. It seems like he managed to work out a solution for now because there were no other incidents of the electrical control panel malfunctioning (see the previous entries here: http://noeldlp.blogspot.com/2010/02/unlocked-psych-unit.html and here: http://noeldlp.blogspot.com/2010/02/unlocked-psych-unit-reloaded.html )

Do you think I should do an experiment? Should I tag one of my blog entries with words such as: sex, porn, nude, etc. Would I get a lot more hits? I’m betting it would work.

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Unlocked Psych Unit Reloaded

Well it happened again and this time earlier. At about 11:30 P.M. in the waning hours of Valentine’s night, the electrical system of the locked doors in the psych unit I work in had another meltdown. After being “fixed” earlier in the day, we were hoping that our problems with the system would be over and we could relax our guard and not have staff stationed on every door. The nursing supervisor had to send extra staff members for the day shift just to watch the doors and after it was repaired, the people were sent home. I was dreading coming to work tonight and was hoping for the best that the doors were fixed. They were, but not for long.

For some reason, something is tripping the control panel of the locked doors. We jokingly blamed one of our co-workers who doesn’t usually sit in that spot, that her magnetic field or aura is affecting the panel somehow. She sat there two nights in a row, and the system failed two nights in a row. Coincidence? We hope so, but we advised her not to sit in that spot again. I took a picture of the control panel complete with its rubber bands but I don’t have the necessary USB connectors to copy it to this computer, so I may have to add it later.

The control panel for the locked doors are held together by a web of rubber bands because it's that old and some of the switches don't work properly. The #1 switch is rewired to a makeshift push button and the #3 switch is rewired to #16. I know it’s kinda confusing when you read it. Imagine how confused the workers here are too if they didn’t know which switch controls what door, and not everyone knows it.

Well I found a way to get the picture on this computer. I took another photo with my cell phone and emailed it to myself. Please don’t laugh too hard when you see our patched up control panel. Remember, we are a locked psych unit and you could be one of our patients in the near future.

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