The Book of Ashes

Life is like, and the day spent at the dairy board 11:55AM

Life is like running down a lit street at night. Things rush past you at great speed and you don't really have time to notice the houses and garden's but you're enjoying the feel of the air on your face, the rush of adreneline and the speed, oh the speed. But as you progress down the street you tire and slow down then begin to walk, you no longer can go fast so you enjoy the scenery and make more out of the darkness that surrounds you until finally you reach the end and you're ambling along slow but happy.

I'm still at the running stage, just starting to slow down a little. If you're like me you'll run with your hands flat and your arms bent at the elbow at right angles (like the T1000 off Terminator 2). Just makes you feel tougher.

Today I started work with a fax marked urgent on my desk so I headed down to the Diary Board to deal with there problems. I ended up leaving at 6:30 that night finally fixed. Its their year end and all their finanicals have to go through by the weekend etc. Of course I had to kick them out of the system for the whole day. The thing that sucks the most is that in the system we use I had to recreate 8 indexes, each one taking about 45 mins. In a modern system this would take 1-2 mins. So I had to kick each one off then sit while they ran doing nothing. I played with a tack for hours. It fell on the floor lots and rolled under my desk. I got it back most times but this one last time it went too far and I couldn't be bothered. Anyway there was another on sitting there on the desk. I also managed to break a rubber band I fiddled with it so much and I began on a mission to ""read"" the internet. I didn't get very far, just a few jokes and stuff, but I've book marked where I'm up to so next time I can continue and might even finish it off. Another thing that sucks is Arev and another is the fact that when you're wearing a suit and getting paid $130 per hour but have to sit there watching a process run you can't really play cards on the computer nor fill out your diary entries nor nick off to the computer store to check out what deals are on. Instead you have to play nicely with rubber bands till they break and tacks till they roll to far under the table.

Which reminds me. Has anyone else noticed that couch cushions tend to migrate to one end of the couch. With our couch its to the left. They always get scrunched up towards that end and I constantly have to shift them back. Does this happen to anyone elses couch? Or is it just that I always lift off from the couch pushing to the right (which is the left when facing the couch)?

Saw a guy walking down the street today with his arms hanging out like he had stood in a door way and held them hard up against the frame for too long (remember that trick, it makes your arms feel real light and want to lift up - muscle memory). I think he thought he was just real tuff or maybe he thought he was a cowboy (or maybe he was and Bill & Ted had brought him back to see Wellington, modern day). You see alsorts down Lambton Key. Saw Crispy down there the other day.

So I had to have a quiet beer with Tom after work. Both of us felt buggered from the day. Tom walked me though much of the Arev stuff. He is now the resident Arev Guru and all try hard Arev Guru's must bow down to him in true geek like fashion