still alive

guess what?. i actually did a little bit of work when i was at work yesterday. it felt quite strange. had gotten quite used to do doing nothing all day and reading match reports and the news for 8 hours a day.

anyways, it wasn't anything particularly exciting, just installing ESX on a server, but at least it was something. after that i did some more work, but that was just checking some settings on 16 blade servers. i had to do it with one of the guys thats new and started a couple of weeks before me. my god, did he whine and complain about it. if he had spent as much energy doing the work instead of whining about it, we would have been done with in an hour. instead it went on for nearly 2 hours. it was getting quite annoying after a while. he then started to whine about some shit his wife was going through at her job, and i had to listen to that endlessly as well. felt like saying, excuse me mate, you should tell this to someone who actually gives a shit. i didn't and just nodded sympathetically and saying the occasional, 'no way', 'really?' and 'thats too bad', just for effect. i had tuned out for most of it.

no news on any other new contracts for me. i wonder if things are a bit slow because the world cup is on. who knows?. in the meantime i am still there and still getting paid. keep thinking it will be worth it when i am driving in LA in my camarro or mustang with janes addiction on the stereo, on a lovely southern californian evening as the sun is setting.

i sway from leaving one minute to staying the next. its not good. at the moment i am in a staying mood, solely for the reason that i have not earned a pay check like this before and i want to see how it feels for a little while. thats shallow but its true.

went to the gym today on my bike. nearly got killed 3 times by idiots in their cars not looking and just pulling out or driving really close to me and nearly knocking me off. you would think i was the invisible man or something. by the 3rd near miss on my way home i got really annoyed. some guy in his car came past and almost brushed past me as he came past. i was livid. i gargled up a huge green slimy flem and tried to catch him up, but he was just out of range for me to fire it at his car. given the mood i was in, he might have made a serious mistake if he had then stopped and got out of the safety of his metal box he was in, as i had just been to the gym and was feeling strong. anyways, i am calm now and i am still alive.

world cup is still on. no classic games yet, but its the group phase and there rarely are. next weekend we get into the knock out stages and then the tension is intense. think i will watch a bit of cameroon v denmark tonight. will be supporting the west africans this evening.

today i have mostly been listening to groove armada - i won't kneel. enjoy.