This Geek

There’s an open piece of ground 2 blocks up from us. On occasion a fairly well known local circus stops there for a few days. Other times there’s the “Massive Shoe Sale” tent. — Don’t ask me.

This time around, for the first time that I’ve ever seen (and I’ve been here almost 5 years now), there’s another kind of circus parked there. They’ve been there since Sunday.

It’s a frikkin’ mobile church.

I wouldn’t normally mind, but as I sit here typing this, I can hear the moron yelling into his microphone. It’s not loud enough for me to hear what he’s saying (thankfully), but it’s loud enough to irritate me…. and it’s been going on the whole fucking week!

I’m waiting for day two of a two day stress management course (sponsored by the company, for the company) to begin. It starts at 08h30, and it’s now 06h27. I’m sitting at a desk at work, waiting for time to pass.

You might be wondering why I’m sitting at work at 06h30. It’s because I’m a creature of habit. I’m at work every day (except for the weekends of course) between 06h00 and 06h30. And now you might be wondering why I habitually get to work at this god forsaken time. One word — Traffic.

To be honest, that’s why I started coming in this early, but I’ve been doing it for so many years now, that my reasons have subtly changed. Now it’s mainly habit. I also like being here alone in the quiet. Well, it’s quiet unless someone has left a freakin’ radio switched on.

Gah, nothing irritates me more than walking into an empty office to hear a radio muttering to itself. My irritation rises somewhat more when it’s a Monday morning (Hey, I get irritated easily, so sue me).

I’ve really gone off at a tangent this morning. Sorry, but I don’t really have much else to do right now. I said earlier that I was sitting at a desk, not my desk. Why?

It’s because I can’t get to my desk. The motherfuckers in my office packed about 30 HP computer boxes in and around my desk, and I couldn’t be arsed with trying to move them all out. They’re gonna have to do it later anyway when they deliver the PC’s contained within, so why should I worry? Heh, they even had the cheek to take a pic of my boss, no less, putting a box on the pile.

My problem at the moment is that I don’t know who the exact perpetrators are. But no worries. They will pay.

I think a day or so without internet access will kind of flummox them in the interim.

Yes, you!

I finally finished The Truth last night. Not a bad story. A bit hurried towards the end if you ask me, but on the whole, I enjoyed the entire series. Some people won’t like the biblical references though. Shame.

Wonder what the next one will be like?

I’m busy reading Area 51: Excalibur, and I came across a mistake somewhere approaching the end:

SPOILER ALERT! (If you haven’t read it yet, skip this post (and if you’re the type to read the last page of the book, I’m glaring at you right now. Yes, you.))

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Sometimes I think that Dads develop a taste for chilli sauce just to prevent their kids having a go at their food.

At least it’s effective

The server has been down for the past lil while because it was moved to a new location. It also seems like we got a line upgrade to boot (1.5Mb! (or something - I don’t remember. I was told early this morning. I was still rather bleary eyed)). Anyway, it took awhile because there were problems putting the lines in, and the landlords were away on vacation, etc etc. Shit happens.