So it's Christmas Eve and I'm at work.

When the lab shut down for the holidays yesterday they implemented a hightened security plan. I had to get my name put on a special list to be allowed onto lab property at all. So when I drove in this morning, I had to stop at the checkpoint on the main road and give them my badge, and they called it in to see if I'm on the list.

Then, I drive around and get the Best Parking Spot Ever™, and see one of my co-workers leaving (at 8:30am?). When I get into the building, they take my badge again and call the checkpoint to verify that I had come through there. Lots of overhead (and its weird that the building guards didn't have their own copy of the list...), but whatever.

The only problem was that the checkpoint guys said I wasn't on the list when the building guards called. Nevermind that I had just been there about 5 minutes earlier and that they probably hadn't processed anyone else in the meantime. So I had to wait around for about 10 minutes while lots of radios were used to contact lots of guards all over the know universe until someone with the right list finally looked up my ID number and confirmed that I was OK.

Geebus.