Australia Day Eve...

Have had a pretty shit week at work; one of the deadlines that I've been working for (Feb. 12) was 
unexpectedly brought forward to January 31.  This did not make my week, and it's one of the reasons why it's taken me so long to put something on the blog this week, that and the fact that I'm a lazy and unmotivated smeg, for most part.  So I've decided to give you a quick insight into my day, as I'm already trying to forget the earlier part of the week.

The day got off to a pretty sloppy start, and because I'd been up half the night helping my mother out with computer stuff, I was dead tired and consequently hit the 'snooze' button a few too many times.  Fortunately, my first meeting was 9:30, so my 9:28 arrival to the office was - amongst other things - timely.

The first meeting was about training, and unfortunately my general "how fucking hard it is, why do these muppets need training" approach doesn't quite wash it, and I need to at least attempt to be a little more professional in these environments, but my meeting scared me, and after it at ended there was more apprehension as to our ability to deliver what's required.  Fortunately - for everyone - I'm actually not going to be training people.  Perhaps with this in mind, we do stand a chance after all!!!

A nice curveball was thrown at me, getting quotations for housing servers and applications and these types of exciting things, but since I was getting nowhere fast trying to obtain quotes from the various groups I'd spoken to, I was forced to engage in the help of 'google' and then start ringing people asking about there services.

Now generally speaking, i don't like talking to people unless I know them, they're interesting or I'm really, really drunk and there's a chance they might know of a party somewhere else, so calling a bunch of people and discussing server co-location and begging for indicative costings was not something that i really wanted to do for a minute, let alone the two hours that I ended up doing it for.

Because I'm such a good bloke and karma is always positive around me, the following task was a 3 hour site visit inside Wembley stadium, where I had to not only discuss the operational environments of the hospitality areas, but attempt to map out where things had ended up, and contemplate suicide given their actual locations versus their expected locations.  As Dennis Leary so aptly put it, "this is gonna suck!"

Yeah, three hour site visit.  Good one!  Sometimes I love being me!

Finished the work-day off by organising my transport to Norwich for tomorrow's festivities.  I'm heading up to visit my cousin, whose organised a night out with some of her friends.  Should be a good night, will be great catching up because she's a cool chick, will get to see another city and also meet some more people.  It's good to keep busy now, and given that work is almost all consuming, it will be one of the last times for awhile.

Tonight I was that sick of scrounging around the kitchen trying to create a masterpiece with the likes of an onion, some plain flour and some sesame seeds, that I decided that I'd head down the local High Road to my favourite London Indian establishment.  The place is called 'Kurdiris' and they do probably the finest Rogan Josh that I've ever sampled.  Sure, I paid £9.20 for take away, but at the end of the day, when you love food as much as I do, and it tastes as good as this curry, it's well worth the expense.

DJD decided to have some Chinese duck dish, and no, that's not a euphamism.

Actually, try saying that ten times really quickly.....

Chinese duck dish
Chinese duck dish
Chinese duck dish
Chinese duck dish
Chinese duck dish
Chinese duck dish
Chinese duck dish
Chinese duck dish
Chinese duck dish
Chinese duck dish

I cut'n'pasted it, so that's really not a substitute.

Anyway, we're having dinner in the lounge-room and we're talking about stupid old television shows, movies and bad things of the 1980's and I remember Alby Mangles.  Alby Mangles was that dumbarse that used to make the 'World Safari' 'movies'.  If you don't know of him, then maybe you should.

Now I'm guessing that my mate DJD never had the fortune of watching any of the 'World Safari' movies...

"Wasn't she in 'Neighbours'"?

Now for those of you confused as the the identities, i've thrown something below for you to consider.  The not-so-great man, Alby Mangles.



I'm still somewhat unclear as to why he wasn't considered one of Australia's greatest sons, but he's a little different to the following hottie....



I guess you had to be there.

Needless to say, given yet more insight into the frightening individual that DJD, I definitely showed some bravery letting DJD cut my hair.  

At this point you'd think that I've hit rock bottom, but the fact that I'm sitting on the toilet typing this would probably usurp it.  The only thing worse would have been if I titled this 'Blog of a log', but I have some class..... obviously.

Have a great Australia Day.