the 4am ghost

[fleetfootmike]

So, in the interests of letting one of my colleagues be awake to take his son to Great Ormond Street Hospital for a checkup at 8am today, I take the end of his server watch shift (11pm - 3am last night).

All fine. Hand over to the excellent Imtiaz in Lahore (yay for IRC) at 3am, tell him everything is fine, tell him if there's an emergency to call ME before he calls my colleague, fall into bed.

4.10am, cell phone rings. Muzzily pick it up and answer it, eyes not focusing on the display so I can't remember if there *was* a caller-ID.

Silence.

Hrm. Wake up enough to check phone.

Nothing logged in Received Calls or Missed Calls.

No voice mail.

Scratch head. Go back to sleep.

Check with Imtiaz just now: wasn't him.

Puzzled.

Comments

[ninja-krash.livejournal.com]

Must have been the same ghost that woke me for no good reason at 4am too. One minute I'm asleep the next I was wide awake. Cup of warm milk and a few pages of my book soon sorted that out though.

[grey-lady.livejournal.com]

's funny - I woke up at that time too - looked at the clock, wondered why I was awake, and was successful at rolling over to go back to sleep.

[bardling.livejournal.com]

My cell phone logs a missed call, even when there's no caller ID (as "no number") - sounds like perhaps you dreamt it... if so: Man, you need that holiday! ;)

*hugs*

[fleetfootmike.livejournal.com]

If I dreamt it, so did Anne.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

It's nice that you share dreams like that.

[stealthgoth.livejournal.com]

Or maybe James has figured out how to use the phone! A niece of mine once managed to call somebody in Surinam and had a 1/2 chat with that person.
Nice telephone bill though.