Aah., its that time of the week. Time when my brain prepares it shutdown routines….
I imagine little people working in my brain, akin to a Nuclear Power Plant. Mind you its a private enterprise and not a government run plant(Vanity is my vice). Anyways, I think there are mangers, engineers, support, maintenance personnel in there. Every Friday 8:00 pm a siren kicks off when I press the windows and the L keys simultaneously and on cue the managers ping the support staff to commence shut down activities. The support guys go over the checklists and ping maintenance personnel for the go-ahead sign offs. The maintenance staff calls on the engineers to be on site to oversee the whole thing.
The shutdown process kicks off and people start shutting down the brain. I imagine lots of valves turned, buttons pressed and finally the President and the EVP pull out the keys and high level authorization codes they have in the steel brief cases handcuffed to their right hands(no points for guessing why right hands. Sorry for the potty humor). They enter the codes and turn the keys simultaneously and the brain is shut down. After a small cake cutting everyone leaves. Now all the Executive staff goes home to their families while the young-ins go off clubbing and pub hopping at cerebellum, and the hypothalamus and the synapse chain of restaurants. Every one is just happy to leave my brain. Even I don’t pick up my brain’s phone calls during weekends.
But some medieval Chinese guy said “Every Dog has its day” followed by “Today is not yours” while looking at a stray dog and subsequently relishing a doggy biryani. My brain one-ups me as somehow my Batman Arkham City game pulls me toward it. The brain says to me “look who came crawling back on a weekend”. The staff at my brain is called on an emergency hotline and they prepare for a tough weekend. There are somehow no comp-offs for those guys. I don’t even think they have a decent pension plan or insurance. Yet by the grace of god I didn’t have any meltdowns in the past.
I need to plan some incentives for the guys!!!!!! May be a long morale boosting email would be good….
BIdesi 