Will Dee

Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category

It’s been a longer than usual week this week.  I never thought it could be any longer than seven days (five if you’re only counting working days) but I fear this one’s proved my assumption wrong.  Perhaps some guru on relativity could explain the seemingly endless stretch of time that confronted me this morning upon receiving the news that yet another server had failed?  No doubt Einstein covered it off in one of his theories, but I’m afraid I slept through that particular lecture so can someone please ‘splain?  Thanks.

Edit:  I promise I’ll come up with a category other than ‘Miscellaneous’.  Soon.  Well, sometime soon anyway.  Relatively speaking.

I’ll shut up now, shall I?

Actually, no, I should say “I feel violated!”

Had a date with a judge last week, related to a slight mishap with sunstrike, my car and another vehicle parked on the side of the road.

I swear, as I left the courtroom, the solicitor handed me a jar of lube and pointed to a barrel.  B*stards!

Reading through the news today, I saw so many ‘trivial’ stories about companies getting sued, people getting sued and even (no kidding, a dog being sued) over petty, inconsequential things, that I have to wonder at how people manage to stay in business.  Or for that matter, even want to be in business, when you have to deal with people.

You can’t afford to sell anything without a million warnings, just in case some idiot fails to realise that “gee, that coffee might actually be hot so I better sip before gulping” or “golly-gosh, using a hairdryer in a shower could be a bad idea.”

You can’t even voice an opinion online just in case your boss/coworker/random reader takes offense (and boss, our company’s great and I love working there) and fires your ass.

When going to job interviews you get asked for your logins to social networking sites so your prospective employer can keep tabs in case you voice an opinion.

WTF has happened to this planet???

Just in case; this opinion was not my own and I take no responsibility for any offense it may or may not cause.

I’m hoping that ‘ll have time (between posting to my other splogs blogs) to spend a few minutes a day putting the latest batch of collected ramblings up here for everybody (yes, all one of you) to peruse.

I’ve tried a number of times to make a start, but for the life of me haven’t been able to make any headway.  I usually use the “writer’s block” excuse, but that only works for writers.  And I don’t think the “collected ramblings” qualifies as writing.  Not yet, anyway.  Perhaps once I’ve posted a couple of thousand times and approached a publisher with an un-refusable offer, but until then, probably not.

Anyways, ramble over…