Area 136

We has it!

Just thought I should tell you.

Well I think it's sleet, bloody cold partly frozen raindrops where falling on my head just now out in the garden so I am calling it Sleet.

And I am just going to do the washing up then watch Heroes, slumped on the sofa in front of the tv with a nice glass of water.

See what a clean and sober life I lead when not under the influence of Shipscook and QueeneMab?

Ahem.

Now excuse me, I have to continue with my rock and roll life style....

Enjoy your music anywhere.

Hmmmm, apparently only if you use the same computer all the fucking time!

Now all you i-tunes experts need not jump in telling me what I have done wrong because basically I don't care anymore!

I have all the music that I have put on my i-pod on an external hard drive and the operating system (i-tunes) is on my laptop at S&F's.

Tonight I tried to load I-tunes onto the borrowed lap top back at the house which would make loading all my cd's easier.

I loaded it twice and each time the bastard refused to see the library of tunes on the external drive.

The only option it gave me when I connected the i-pod was to erase the i-pod and put all the songs in the current i-tunes library (numbering precisely fuck all) onto it.

Oh thanks.

I give up.

I am not interested in finding out what has gone wrong because I really have had enough.

So now I have to ferry albums back and forward to rancho collapso to put them on this fucking I-pod.

I hate technology.

Yes I am in a mood, so bloody what!

Fuck apple and everything they stand for, basically.

Is about the only time you can be surrounded by lots of used Kleenex and not get funny looks from everybody..........

Never have, why bother?

I work with people most of whom I like, but outside work we don’t socialise aside from the occasional drink over the road at this time of year or when someone jumps ship.

So why do these people give out cards a xmas? Especially when they know they are not getting one from me – I make that quite clear early on.

I am not being mean or tight fisted – I just don’t see why I should. Yep, I hope they and their families all have a great xmas and a prosperous new year and yadda yadda yadda but bugger off if you think just because we earn a living in the same building that puts you on my xmas card list.

One woman here God bless her, knows my feelings on this matter but insisted on giving me a card last year just because she knew it would annoy me.

Then there was a bloke I worked with years ago who agreed with me totally but just to wind me and everyone else up, took a pack of xmas cards to the office drink up and spent the night “sneakily” writing cards for people in plain sight, then presenting them to the recipient with a flourish of very badly acted sincerity and good will. Bastid.

But maybe this year, what with the job uncertainty and the fragmented nature of the team no one will bother……

So far so good.