So, I get to work yesterday and the parking lot is nearly deserted, except for a couple of cars, two of the managers and two other employees.  Apparently, some time over the weekend (I guess) the large, walk-in, industrial oven which had a bunch of buckets filled with in-house batched epoxy that we use to make some of our products out of, shorted.  That means that the temperature maxed out and the buckets of chemicals inside started to BURN.  When people got here Monday morning, the office and the plant was full of noxious, toxic smoke.  I’m not entirely sure what we use in our epoxies, but whatever it is, the smoke isn’t good.

(A few months ago, something similar happened.  That time it was just some random chemicals in an oven, and the office stank for a week afterwards.  This time, though, it was about $15,000 worth of material.)

There are fans and stuff around the office, where apparently, it was the worst, because the office has no real airflow, and the oven where the buckets of epoxy were is right beside it.  I guess, when you came in the front door yesterday morning you couldn’t see really the back of the office (about 30-40 feet away) for the black smoke.

So, there is someone in cleaning out the duct work in the office, as well as wiping everything down.  Not sure why they’re wiping everything down while the guys are cleaning the ducts, but whatever, what do I know?

I had an impromptu day off yesterday, which was nice.  I went and donated blood for the first time in a while (I bled in < 4minutes!  I’ve never done that before and was half-expecting to fall over and pass out the moment I stood up.  But I didn’t! Yay me!), went and had lunch and hung out with a friend I haven’t really hung out with for a while.  She’s preggo and is due within the next month.  She’s got two more weeks of work, and then is off on her maternity leave.  Was thinking of going and helping my friends build their fence, but by the time I left Dawn’s place, it was like… 5:15 and I was heading over to the gym to go swimming with my Mom around 7, so there was really no point.

Back at work today, and I was kind of half-hoping that we wouldn’t be able to work today.  But here we are.  Office doesn’t stink, but I’m not feeling too hot.  We don’t have the air conditioning on or anything (because they’re cleaning the vents), so I’m hoping it doesn’t get too much warmer because I’ll start getting uncomfortable.  We’re going to eat lunch outside, because … damnit, fresh air, which I’m hoping will help my dizziness, but am not betting on anything because I felt (mostly) fine until we lost power for 15 minutes and went outside to get out of the dark.

I’m rambling.  I blame the chemicals.