Just got the wonderful invite to the team launch day we are being forced to attend having in March.

Miles a fucking way from where I am.

Day one on the 5th of March is apparently "getting to know the team and setting the scene"

Oh for fucks sake. We know each other. I know all of them as much as I bloody want to. THIS IS MY JOB - NOT MY FUCKING SOCIAL LIFE!

the Second day will be "Opportunities and Challenges" Which in english means "shit dumping and responsibility shifting"

Lunch on both days will be sandwiches (oh the expense) and the dinner in the evening is to be in a restaurant "To be announced"

Now, listen.

I would rather sit in a McD's full of crack heads than eat in a restaurant with this lot. Now I bear them no ill will at all BUT and this is the point, THEY ARE TRYING TO MAKE ME SPEND TIME WITH PEOPLE I HAVE NO INTEREST IN SOCIALISING WITH!

I don't care about job advancement by sucking up and saying the right thing, fuck it.

I would rather stay at home and suck out both my eyes with a dyson.

But if I do have to go, I may Have a way out of the hell of the evening meal. I know of a friend who lives that way. And meeting them for a nice relaxing evening may just make the corporate bullshit hell worth braving.

Especially as they will be paying for my travel and accomodation. Not that this person is not worth spending money to visit of course. But you have to get something out of your job no?

In other news.

"there is no emoticon for what I am feeling..."

While having a ciggie outside just now, I was suprised to see someone commuting on a Royal Enfield Motorcycle!

Now I'm not a big classic mortorbike geek, but even I know those things are supposedly rare and valuable. This was no weekend only highly polished thing either, it had a couple of small rust spots on the rear mudgaurd by the light and looked like it was used as a regular mode of transport.

how odd.

And what a dull post.

sorry.

No, not a list of the tomes that have made my heart sing or reduced me to tears, simply a comment on the fact that I have a drawer full of books here that need to be moved before we pack up for our office move on Friday.

I will have to take them over to S&F's at some point and stash them there as that is where they would end up eventually but if I do it in one load I fear curvature of the spine and limpage and the shoulder of creak.

The books are
Dear Boy - a biog of Keith Moon

Luftwaffe Victorious - an alternative history book that some geek gave me, I never bought it (ahem)

The Pirate Wars - A maritime history book about the attempts to rid the sea of pirates, obviously.

Dracula - Well I realised I had never read it so I did last year and the book is still in my drawer.

The Toyminator - a daft and fun Robert Rankin book set in Toytown.

Obviously the real reason for this post is not to show off how well read I am but just so I can do a post.

Addict I know, but so what.

So I will be trying to find a little space for those in the spare room at S&F's. It's just the other couple of dozen at home and the 500 cd's and the umpteen guitar effects and amps and guitars and the clothes I have to worry about now.

"we're gonna need a bigger boat."