Do you want Egg on that?

There is a local bagel shop I like to go to and get what they call a eggwich and every time I place my order for an eggwich with ham and cheese they always ask me EGG, ham and cheese?  I always say yes, but I wonder has anyone ever ordered an eggwich and requested not to have the egg on it?  Wouldn't that just be a bagel with ham and cheese? and why would you order an eggwich if you don't want the egg?  Them asking me about the egg on the bagel is like asking when you ordered a hamburger if you wanted the hamburger meat on the burger.  Does anyone else find this question to be strange or is it just me?

Disaster in Rancho Cordova Data Center....

Once a year my work has what they call Disaster recovery week to test our backup plan in case there is a disaster at our location.  What happens is they take the backup tapes to our backup location and load the information on our backup machines and then run production on those systems to see if we could switch over with as little break in service as possible.  All sounds like a good idea and every company should have a disaster recovery plan.  The reason I am writing this entry is because my company actually plays out the fake disaster with a long detail explanation of what happened that caused the problem.
For example this year the disaster was that an airplane engine fell out of the sky and came through our roof taking out our communications and some of our server cabinets in a particular part of our Data Center.  I was listening in to the conference call where they are asking about the condition of the building, if anyone was injured as well as if the fire department was on site.  To which the participant answer as if this is really going on.  So although there is nothing wrong I hear one guy say yes the fire department was here and there was a fire in our data center from the debris of the engine.  I had to keep from laughing as I listened to the call because it was all just make believe.  I can understand why they have to act like this is real but to hear adults who for a live do not pretend things are happening which are not talk like they are was funny to me.  Perhaps next year I will be part of the DR testing and have to pretend some horrific accident has taken place and I am now responsible for getting the business running from our backup location.  Oh the fun we have at work.

Warning.... Warning... Intruder alert!

OK, so why do things like this always happen when I am at work and never when my coworker who works grave shift.  Sunday night when I was covering the grave shift for my coworker the alarm system we have in the building started going off. Luckily I was not alone at the time and the guy that works swing shift was still at work.  He tried to silence the alarm as the display said something about an up link failure.  No worries if the up link has an issue as it will try again and eventually get connected.  Anyway I went over and keyed in the code since I had it memorized (I enter it every night when I set the alarm) which silenced the noise.  After getting the noise to stop the display said something about running a test so I said yes.  Well the monitoring company called us to say they showed an alarm on one of our doors.  The door was labeled File Library door, which no one knew what door that was.  The only library door we knew of was our tape library and that door doesn't have any sensors for the alarm.
Scott my coworker decided to go out and investigate the building to see what he could find so he gave me his fob (which is our keys to get in the doors) and decided to go all Jason Bourne and grabbed a pen and pencil for weapons.  I was on the phone with our monitoring company waiting for them to see if they had a schismatic of the office to tell us which door was causing the alarm.  As Scott left the data center I asked him if he wanted my pocket knife and at first he said no until I took it out and show it to him.  He then came back in and gave me the pencil and took the knife.  Long story short he checked to building finding nothing wrong and came back to the data center.  The monitoring company couldn't tell us what door it was and after discussing it between Scott and myself we decided it must be an internal door and had the monitoring company disable it until morning when they could have someone come out to look at our system.  Scott talked about us getting some wasp spray as a no lethal defense weapon because it can shoot up to 20 feet and will cause the person getting shot trouble enough for the shooter to get away. 
All was quiet the rest of the night which I was glad about because after 3am I am in the building alone.  Turns out that the door happens to be the one to the break room that is always propped open and that is why it was alarming.  They disabled that door from the alarm system and so we shouldn't have anymore alarms for that door anyway.