How did we go from perms to limp waves?

Honestly, that used to happen to me all the time. I would wake up feeling like hours passed, but it was only minutes. What helped was getting up and doing a simple task, like making tea or stretching. It kinda tricks your brain into moving on from that weird time warp feeling. Now I just roll with it and don't let that weird feeling ruin my morning.

Did you catch that article about loose wires in electrical panels? I was reading how they cause most intermittent light issues. It said the constant on and off comes from the connection breaking and making contact. That arcing can actually start a fire if it gets bad enough. Your story is a perfect example of why we should not ignore those little flickers. Fixing it fast like you did is the smart move.

Honestly that line about "alerts after hours" is so real. My friend had an AI tool that kept marking tasks as blocked because her teammate was on vacation, but it just kept reassigning the work to him automatically every morning. It created this whole mess where people thought he was ignoring his tasks, and she had to explain the situation over and over. They finally just turned off the auto-alerts and went back to a shared spreadsheet. It was way less stressful once they stopped fighting the system.

Does your buddy even get why those clean air rules exist in the first place?