Sunday, March 13, 2005

Roy and the Desktop Video Feed

I was at work (Mercedes) again, and I had set up something on my lock-setting station to serve as entertainment to me wherever I might be in the Key and Lock Site. It was some sort of picture frame that played music and video that was hooked up to a web cam that fed into the P.A. system, so I could hear it wherever I wanted to.

The end of the day came up, and we were getting ready to go home. I think that I almost walked out of there without disconnecting the video/audio feed and turning off the frame, so just as I was about ready to go, I was walking by Roy's (team leader) desk with my stuff in my hands, and he said something to me about forgetting to turn my stuff off. I was surprised I had forgotten, and I thanked him. We both went over to my desk to turn it off.

While I was over there, something else started going on (I think someone else came by and
started talking to me). Both Roy and I stood there and talked and joked with whoever it was for a bit, and eventually something came up about my little entertainment thing. I think that by this point, whoever we were talking to eventually turned into Don (fat guy at work). I was talking a bit about the whole video feed and audio, and how I had built it using a web cam, and one of those video picture frames that plays sound, and I turned it into a little entertainment center. I turned off the frame and disconnected the web cam feed.

Then I was looking through some folder or something that either someone brought over to me or that I had pulled out of a drawer. There were a collection of order tickets and a bit of paperwork there. I think I was supposed to be figuring out something about the tickets, as in how to read something, decode some bit of information, or something like that. I worked on it for a bit while Roy was around there doing stuff, such as putting stuff away on the shelves behind my lock station. Finally I realized that it was getting later and that nearly everyone else had gone home. I said goodbye to Roy, got my stuff and left just as the dream was ending.

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