glastonbury

i have no ability or aptitude to fill in mindless forms as part of some process. i must be in a minority because no one else seems to have trouble with it at work, but whenever someone starts talking about filling in a form to do with some task, my brain just switches off, even though i try really hard to keep listening.

explain something a little technical and eventually after 10 attempts i will understand it. talk to me a 1000 times about process and forms, and on the 1001st time it will still be all new to me and like i am hearing it for the first time. i think i might be starting to annoy the compliance and process team.

i need a day off i think. today have mainly been playing with creating images to deploy to servers using windows deployment services. its pretty good. saves you carrying lots of cds and is much faster. like i said before, it took me 10 attempts to get it right, but its pretty much there now.

one of the girls who works in my team is off to the glastonbury music festival. never understood the attraction of sharing a toilet with a hundred thousand people, and sleeping in mud for 3 days. don't think i would be able to enjoy the show if i was covered in mud and shit. once again, clearly am the odd one out because i know loads of people that go to glastonbury. the forecast is for rain on friday, so cue footage on the news of people rolling round in the mud saying that the mud is part of the fun and what glastonbury is all about. idiots.

anyways, its all on tv now, and the added bonus is that you can see it clearly on the screen and not have a million flags held up in front of you blocking your view of the stage. it must be so annoying when people do that. its bad enough going to a concert and some guy the size of shaquille o'neil stands in front of you, but another thing all together if he started waving a huge flag blocking the view of the entire stage.

i saw u2 at wembley stadium a few years back and promised myself i would never go to another stadium show again. everyone in the crowd was singing along with the song and it drowned out bono. whats that about?. i paid to here bono sing it, not some drunk idiots. also there were some people who got their girlfriends up on their shoulders and blocked the view of the people behind. the stewards were too far away to get to them and tell them to get down, but it was ok because everyone started throwing plastic bottles and cups whenever someone did get up on shoulders and the volley of missiles got them down pretty quick. it was all rather amusing.

i don't recall too much about the show. it was u2. for them it was just another stadium on a tour that would be paying for another new house somewhere in the world, and so they seemed to be not into the show or creating an atmosphere. they were probably thinking about whether the co-op of the apartment block would give them authorisation to buy that $10m duplex on central park west or where in monte carlo is a good spot to park a 150ft yacht.

today i have mostly been listening to radiohead - street spirit, glastonbury 2003. a year with no big flags and mud, so comepletely contradicting everyting i just said before.

this one is for you V.