Up and down and sideways...
Jan. 15th, 2010 03:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregular1) More and more, I'm feeling the urge to offer my colleagues in the adjoining office a nice piping-hot cup of Sierra Uniform, liberally sweetened with Tango Foxtrot. (Anyone who's been following me for any length of time probably knows that I generally shy away from profanity unless I've blown a gasket.) Getting to the point where almost every day now, I find myself halfway into the windup for throwing something at the non-sound-insulating glass door, either a high-lighter or the wrist-rest bean bag for my mouse hand.
2) After pounding my head against a mouthful of Katharevousa Greek (which I'm more and more convinced is only still in use so that elder statesmen in the profession can make neophytes look stupid), I asked a couple of colleagues for help. When I drew the parallel of (God forbid) asking them to read Shakespeare in the original Elizabethan English, I was greeted with a stereo wince.
3) Picked up a new laptop to replace my smashed machine last night. Gotta say, they're making those suckers light in the modern age. And since the old laptop can be re-purposed, and I'd been planning on investing in a low-power home-theater PC anyway ... could be worse. Only major down side is that the machine didn't come with an optical drive. Hopefully that's no longer the killer issue it was ten years ago.
4) Finally, finally over the flu. Now I've just got to finish kicking the jet lag.
2) After pounding my head against a mouthful of Katharevousa Greek (which I'm more and more convinced is only still in use so that elder statesmen in the profession can make neophytes look stupid), I asked a couple of colleagues for help. When I drew the parallel of (God forbid) asking them to read Shakespeare in the original Elizabethan English, I was greeted with a stereo wince.
3) Picked up a new laptop to replace my smashed machine last night. Gotta say, they're making those suckers light in the modern age. And since the old laptop can be re-purposed, and I'd been planning on investing in a low-power home-theater PC anyway ... could be worse. Only major down side is that the machine didn't come with an optical drive. Hopefully that's no longer the killer issue it was ten years ago.
4) Finally, finally over the flu. Now I've just got to finish kicking the jet lag.
