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Oct. 25th, 2010 08:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynWell, I'm awake.
Not that I could be otherwise. When you are on the road for business and you are in the Pacific time zone and you use your Blackberry for an alarm clock and the IT department makes a change over the weekend and the office opens at 7:30 AM, people are going to complain about the change as soon as it happens and you are not going to be happy about it at all. At least, not if you're me, and I know I am. On the other hand, even with Vindictive Alarm Changing- you know, resetting the snooze time forward ten minutes, repeatedly, to 'punish' someone or something who has no idea of what they're doing or why it annoys you- I got out of bed in time to take a shower and get dressed and get to work, and I was even on time despite taking a wrong turn and getting lost enough to be stuck at a four-minute traffic light.
No, literally. I was at the light so long that the woman behind me got impatient and pulled out from behind me and turned left anyway despite the light being red. 'course, it then changed fifteen seconds later.
Anyway. At work now. Trying to verify that a particularly dense contractor will indeed be coming in when he is supposed to, and that I have everything in order for my other installation that's due today. Still not sure of that, doing my best to contact my boss about it and make sure all is kosher, keeping my fingers crossed. We'll see.
I have also been playing Fallout New Vegas, and I have discovered something: I really don't like the Vegas parts. Not because of anything Bethesda or Obsidian did wrong, I don't think. The place is loud, flashy, and scummy. It's full of opportunists who think their schemes for assuming personal control of the place are the biggest thing on the slate. It's civilized and all, relatively speaking, but it just... ugggh. Flashy and hollow, like the way all the tacky in Canada seems to have been smooshed into a few blocks surrounding Niagara Falls. Going out into the desert to find a bunker full of people who probably wanted to kill me was positively cleansing by comparison.
There'll be more about New Vegas later. Right now I'm trying to get things settled for work.
Not that I could be otherwise. When you are on the road for business and you are in the Pacific time zone and you use your Blackberry for an alarm clock and the IT department makes a change over the weekend and the office opens at 7:30 AM, people are going to complain about the change as soon as it happens and you are not going to be happy about it at all. At least, not if you're me, and I know I am. On the other hand, even with Vindictive Alarm Changing- you know, resetting the snooze time forward ten minutes, repeatedly, to 'punish' someone or something who has no idea of what they're doing or why it annoys you- I got out of bed in time to take a shower and get dressed and get to work, and I was even on time despite taking a wrong turn and getting lost enough to be stuck at a four-minute traffic light.
No, literally. I was at the light so long that the woman behind me got impatient and pulled out from behind me and turned left anyway despite the light being red. 'course, it then changed fifteen seconds later.
Anyway. At work now. Trying to verify that a particularly dense contractor will indeed be coming in when he is supposed to, and that I have everything in order for my other installation that's due today. Still not sure of that, doing my best to contact my boss about it and make sure all is kosher, keeping my fingers crossed. We'll see.
I have also been playing Fallout New Vegas, and I have discovered something: I really don't like the Vegas parts. Not because of anything Bethesda or Obsidian did wrong, I don't think. The place is loud, flashy, and scummy. It's full of opportunists who think their schemes for assuming personal control of the place are the biggest thing on the slate. It's civilized and all, relatively speaking, but it just... ugggh. Flashy and hollow, like the way all the tacky in Canada seems to have been smooshed into a few blocks surrounding Niagara Falls. Going out into the desert to find a bunker full of people who probably wanted to kill me was positively cleansing by comparison.
There'll be more about New Vegas later. Right now I'm trying to get things settled for work.
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