tube strike

tube (subway) workers are on strike again. its such a pain in the arse. they want a 5% pay rise this year. no one is getting pay rises recently let alone one that is nearly twice the rate of inflation. they really do need to get their heads out of their arses and get into the real world. 

a guy i know works for the tube and just works in the ticket office and he told me that he gets 52 days a year holiday. 52 days!!!. thats ridiculous. what planet are these people living on?.  i want to mee the guy who had the balls to ask for 52 days a year holiday in a previous negotiation with the employers and ended up getting it. his balls must have been made of brass and his name must have been fuckyou. 

anyways it took me nearly an hour and half to get home yesterday evening and its just not what you need. i felt tired and not in the most cheery of moods when i got in. was supposed to go to the gym but just couldn't get the energy up to go. the weather is dreary as well and i am still in mourning for my bike that got nicked. its supposed to be nice this saturday. what a fucker!. 

football is also cancelled this week what with one of the guys fracturing his ankle and another guy going to ireland for a couple of weeks. oh well. 

work is ok. nothing to say really. could be worse. i could be really having a bad time at work but i am not. though saying that i just asked one the people here to explain the process for something and they just started talking jibberish and nonsence. naom chomsky, celebrated professor of linguistics would have seen a lifetimes work undermined by that performance. do we have a language gene?. clearly not if that explanation was anything to go by. that wasn't language and words. that was just noise, that you were making pal. 

.....and thats all i have to say really. will try and get down to the gym tonight but that is dependent on my journey not resembling yesterday evening debacle. 

today i have mostly been listening to my new mp3 player. its very nice. 

my boss snuck out a bit early today to try and beat the traffic. understandable. my boss's boss just came back to his desk, saw he wasn't there and asked me what shift my boss was on this week. i think he was a little pissed that he snuck out early. it kind of put me on the spot because i didn't want to get anyone in trouble but then i can't lie either so i told him he was on the middle shift. he didn't look happy. oh well. 

take care now, you hear.