Sunday Morning, 2 a.m.

Homo Sapiens Sapiens Brain v1.0: Emergency Activation Sequence Complete.
Homo Sapiens Sapiens Brain v1.0: Bootstrapping Primary Conciousness Routine
- [Primary Conciousness Routine] Wha?
Homo Sapiens Sapiens Brain v1.0: Connecting Conciousness to Initiating Process:
- [Auditory Centre] Emergency Invocation of Conciousness due to unexpected loud clanging noise.

[Primary Conciousness Routine] Huh? Whazzup?
- [Tactile Centre] Status: warm and cozy.
- [Visual Cortex] Status: it's dark.
- [Short Term Memory] Status: In bed.  In hotel room.  Attempting to sleep.
- [Auditory Centre] Status: ongoing loud clanging noise.

[Primary Conciousness Routine] Reasoning module: Evaluate please.
[Primary Conciousness Routine] Motor Control: Find and activate light source.

- [Motor Control] Light activated.
- [Visual Cortex] Confirm location: hotel room
- [Reasoning Module] Likely cause of loud clanging noise: Fire Alarm.

<Interrupt - [Primeval Reflex] Activate Panic Mode>
- [Hormonal System] Panic Mode activated.
- [Speech Centre] FUUUUUUUUCK!
- [Motor Control System] Activating decapitated poultry mode.
<Interrupt handling completed>

- [Reasoning Module] Constructiveness Index of present course of action: 0.01
[Primary Conciousness Routine] Waaaaaaaah!!!!!

- [Reasoning Module] Assuming Control.

[Reasoning Module] Preferred primary course of action: calm, orderly evacuation.
[Reasoning Module] Current Situation: standing stark bollock naked in hotel room.
[Reasoning Module] Visual Cortex: Locate clothing.
- [Visual Cortex] On it.
[Reasoning Module] Motor Control: Get dressed.
- [Motor Control System] Acknowledged.

And from there on, things went rather better. Despite what felt like an eternity of dithering while I got dressed and grabbed useful-looking things, and our room location (about as far from a fire exit as it was possible to get), Cal and I were the first people out of that fire exit.

Luckily, it was just another false alarm that will no doubt be recorded in multiple con reports, and serve to make a generally good con more memorable.

(no subject)

This is why I think the major record companies' attitude to MP3 and the Internet is a spectacularly dumb idea.

Yes, I know that you've probably never heard of either of the musicians involved. No, I've got no idea what the track sounds like, or whether I'd even like it. That's not the point.