My life can't be called boring. I try to make it boring but it just turns out mildly interesting.
So, went to Greenbelt for bank holiday weekend. It was good. Could be worse but it's good. Sleeping on the ground is not so good. Will post pictures later when my laptop has returned after being sent it again. (Don't get me started on Apple again...)
Bands were good. Friends are good.
Went to London yesterday right after returning from Greenbelt and met up with the lovely Sarah after she finished work, then Sebby who sat down with me at the Genius bar while we were trying to figure out what to do about my diseased Powerbook. It's just too painful to relate the whole story but suffice to say that it's now in repairs again, I expect to have a working laptop at some point in my lifetime. After dinner and a half bottle of wine with Sebby (we had to celebrate that he's been in gainful employment for five years and I hadn't somehow. I'm also an alcoholic) Walked to Marble Arch to bus stop to start talking with random French Algerian boy and then spent the time talking to random Oxford boy on the bus the way back.
Am pleased with self as can still chat up random men.
There is also a big piss up organised for the end of October when I get back. I should start practising for that.
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
The bank holiday weekend
I'm off to Greenbelt, where they've got quite a random line up this year....
There will be camping in the rain, joy. Why do people in this country put themselves up for it?
Should be fun.
There will be camping in the rain, joy. Why do people in this country put themselves up for it?
Should be fun.
Saturday, August 19, 2006
Madness...
I felt frivolous when I woke up this morning so I'm wearing stilettos at work today. Now I know I am well and truly mad.
Working very hard makes me very tense. If you haven't realised from reading the past few posts, I could make it more obvious but I am feeling better today. I have a slight cold but for some strange reason, I'm not so tense. How odd. Maybe it's just the exhaustion. Or the fact that the end is in sight? Well, I can smell the end, I have a good sense of smell.
Then again, maybe I smell because I've been working with flies for a long time.
Enough of that, lots of good things have been happening but because there's so much crap going on in my life, I haven't posted about it.
I've started speaking to an old friend, we haven't been in touch for a long time (due to many silly mistakes from my part) and it's good. I'm going to try and catch up with him again soon. I'm growing up because I know I'm learning from my mistakes.
Mary came to see me last week and we checked out the new tourist attraction in Oxford, Oxford Unlocked. It was hilarious!! It's also nice to see a part of Oxford completely not related to the university and learn about medieval England. It's about prisons, so not really the most entertaining or uplifting experience. We saw an underground Normal crypt, then explored the prison using some high-tech Navigator tools, basically a heavy duty MP4 player, and at the end of it, we climbed one of the few towers left in Oxford. We then had a late lunch and supped some wine.
Later in the evening, I managed to go out drinking with Annie. Drunken debauchery. Not suitable for sensitive eyes, so you know how to get the full story (double rums are so the way forward)
Crawled out of bed on Sunday with hangover (now I remember what one of those feels like, it's been a while my friend) and jumped on a train to Brum. Sent in my beloved baby to be repaired by the Apple Store, you've heard it all from the previous posts and met up with Pete. We had lunch at this crazy crazy Italian deli in the Bullring then walked to Victoria Square when we randomly decided to go into a Birmingham Museum/Art Gallery. He'd never been in there and he's lived in Brum for ages. My excuse is that I always meant to go in there. They have the most random collection of stuff, odd odd artworks.
Worked like a madwoman from hell this week, so bad that I had a breakdown on Thursday. So on Friday, I met Keiko for lunch and we decided that it would be fun to go and have our hair cut. I now have shorter hair, and more texture and layers. I love the unkempt look. I'm so good at it. But then again, I am so lazy, I love rolling out of bed, scraping my hair back if I have time but otherwise, just coffee then work.
I am in a pleasant mood today, I think the frivolity of wearing stilettos to work helped. Lots of other things have happened in between my cycles of madness, pictures here.
Working very hard makes me very tense. If you haven't realised from reading the past few posts, I could make it more obvious but I am feeling better today. I have a slight cold but for some strange reason, I'm not so tense. How odd. Maybe it's just the exhaustion. Or the fact that the end is in sight? Well, I can smell the end, I have a good sense of smell.
Then again, maybe I smell because I've been working with flies for a long time.
Enough of that, lots of good things have been happening but because there's so much crap going on in my life, I haven't posted about it.
I've started speaking to an old friend, we haven't been in touch for a long time (due to many silly mistakes from my part) and it's good. I'm going to try and catch up with him again soon. I'm growing up because I know I'm learning from my mistakes.
Mary came to see me last week and we checked out the new tourist attraction in Oxford, Oxford Unlocked. It was hilarious!! It's also nice to see a part of Oxford completely not related to the university and learn about medieval England. It's about prisons, so not really the most entertaining or uplifting experience. We saw an underground Normal crypt, then explored the prison using some high-tech Navigator tools, basically a heavy duty MP4 player, and at the end of it, we climbed one of the few towers left in Oxford. We then had a late lunch and supped some wine.
Later in the evening, I managed to go out drinking with Annie. Drunken debauchery. Not suitable for sensitive eyes, so you know how to get the full story (double rums are so the way forward)
Crawled out of bed on Sunday with hangover (now I remember what one of those feels like, it's been a while my friend) and jumped on a train to Brum. Sent in my beloved baby to be repaired by the Apple Store, you've heard it all from the previous posts and met up with Pete. We had lunch at this crazy crazy Italian deli in the Bullring then walked to Victoria Square when we randomly decided to go into a Birmingham Museum/Art Gallery. He'd never been in there and he's lived in Brum for ages. My excuse is that I always meant to go in there. They have the most random collection of stuff, odd odd artworks.
Worked like a madwoman from hell this week, so bad that I had a breakdown on Thursday. So on Friday, I met Keiko for lunch and we decided that it would be fun to go and have our hair cut. I now have shorter hair, and more texture and layers. I love the unkempt look. I'm so good at it. But then again, I am so lazy, I love rolling out of bed, scraping my hair back if I have time but otherwise, just coffee then work.
I am in a pleasant mood today, I think the frivolity of wearing stilettos to work helped. Lots of other things have happened in between my cycles of madness, pictures here.
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Apple Customer Service
Yet again
How can a customer oriented company have no one to pick up the phone?
Are you listening Apple? Your customer service sucks! I don't live locally to an Apple Store or an Apple Authorised Service Provider so I need my laptop which has been fixed by you shipped to me.
HOW HARD CAN THAT BE? Apparently with the best customer service company in the world, impossible.
I've dealt with better trained monkeys than Apple CS.
B***ards
How can a customer oriented company have no one to pick up the phone?
Are you listening Apple? Your customer service sucks! I don't live locally to an Apple Store or an Apple Authorised Service Provider so I need my laptop which has been fixed by you shipped to me.
HOW HARD CAN THAT BE? Apparently with the best customer service company in the world, impossible.
I've dealt with better trained monkeys than Apple CS.
B***ards
Apple Customer Service
bites.
Big time.
I have just spent about 45 minutes of my life trying to get ONE person to tell me where my laptop is, but no one knows. I try to call the Apple Store and it HANGS UP ON ME.
Can someone please tell me why when I pay stupid amounts of money for a laptop, and Apple's mantra is 'customer service' and they have bloody 'Genius Bar' they can't even get a human being to answer the phone and tell me where my laptop is?
Or they can't even update the damn service log online and tell me what's happening to it?
I expect this kind of customer service from Dell and their ilks but when you sell a whole image Steve Jobs, make sure it works.
And a lead time of 7 to 10 WORKING DAYS to fix a laptop is WRONG.
Big time.
I have just spent about 45 minutes of my life trying to get ONE person to tell me where my laptop is, but no one knows. I try to call the Apple Store and it HANGS UP ON ME.
Can someone please tell me why when I pay stupid amounts of money for a laptop, and Apple's mantra is 'customer service' and they have bloody 'Genius Bar' they can't even get a human being to answer the phone and tell me where my laptop is?
Or they can't even update the damn service log online and tell me what's happening to it?
I expect this kind of customer service from Dell and their ilks but when you sell a whole image Steve Jobs, make sure it works.
And a lead time of 7 to 10 WORKING DAYS to fix a laptop is WRONG.
Monday, August 07, 2006
Thursday, August 03, 2006
When pigs fly...
That's how I feel about the people in the lab at the moment. Wendy has gone away for 2 weeks and this time, I've vowed not to be the village idiot and left things as they stand. Why should I empty something that I haven't used?
Of course, everyone feels the same way, even though they have used it. So the pigs that I work with have left the bins overflowing... I am getting annoyed by it as it's just starting to look grimy.
And when pigs fly will someone else go and get the food for the flies. Everyone's been stealing what I bring up for the past 3 days and when I ask nicely, no one seems to give a flying fuck. How hard can it be to get your FAT LAZY ASS off the chair and pick some food up? I've done the damn things countless times and you lazy fuckers just help yourself to it?
I don't think so. Personal use things only from now on. And people wonder why I don't share.
Rant over.
Of course, everyone feels the same way, even though they have used it. So the pigs that I work with have left the bins overflowing... I am getting annoyed by it as it's just starting to look grimy.
And when pigs fly will someone else go and get the food for the flies. Everyone's been stealing what I bring up for the past 3 days and when I ask nicely, no one seems to give a flying fuck. How hard can it be to get your FAT LAZY ASS off the chair and pick some food up? I've done the damn things countless times and you lazy fuckers just help yourself to it?
I don't think so. Personal use things only from now on. And people wonder why I don't share.
Rant over.
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
I've been swept off my feet
from the sheer frustration...
that no one seems to care about the crap conditions that I work in.
that no matter how much I work, it all seems to go wrong. Why can't I have the luck of Riley on my side? Just for the next 8 weeks so that it will all be over?
that the people I work with, one is an incompetant and the other is inept. Or is it me?
that there isn't enough time in the world to do what I want to do.
that no one seems to care about the crap conditions that I work in.
that no matter how much I work, it all seems to go wrong. Why can't I have the luck of Riley on my side? Just for the next 8 weeks so that it will all be over?
that the people I work with, one is an incompetant and the other is inept. Or is it me?
that there isn't enough time in the world to do what I want to do.
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