… having to run to catch the work shuttle and arriving at your desk to notice that the webservers have melted down.
And I haven't even finished my first cup of coffee.
Tag: ducks
I hate the waiting…
The cambridge property market is insane!
The property we went to see on monday has already been let. It was taken off the website this morning. There was another, identical, property that was listed yesterday. We went to see that one too to see if the view was better. Since I'd noticed that the one we were interested in had already been taken, we'd filled in all the forms, gotten a reference from the HR people at work and brought our checkbook.
At the time of writing this, there are at least 2 offers on the table, ours and another dudes. As we were leaving, I think that somebody else was also there to see it. What really pisses us off is that the agent was running late and the first dude visited the apartment with us. He stayed behind to fill in the forms and pay the fee because he saw us leave all the kit to the agent. If she'd been on time, I don't think he'd have made an offer today. Damn…
Anyway, I think the odds are in our favour (unless the oily little bugger of a man bribes the agent). We're a professional couple that both work within 5 minutes of the flat. He's a single parent who just wants a weekend place to have his kids around.
We should have an answer by the end of the day.
*finger crossed*
*toes crossed*
*bites nails*
Edit: Damn! Shit! Crap! POOOOOO!
We didn't get it. The landlord went with the other dude. Fucker.
Damn, I really wish I was less cynical
Senators say military strike on Iran must be option
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican and Democratic senators said on Sunday the United States may ultimately have to undertake a military strike to deter Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, but that should be the last resort. “That is the last option. Everything else has to be exhausted. But to say under no circumstances would we exercise a military option, that would be crazy,” Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona said on CBS's “Face the Nation.”
I saw this one coming a while ago. The cynical part of me is thinking the US is going to bomb the hell our of Iran. The realist part of me says the cynical part of me isn't far off the mark. That scares me.
It's thhe little things…
For some weird reason, the toilet paper we bought is not perforated. We always buy the same brand, and it usually is. This time it isn't and it's a serious pain in the ass.
Feelin' bleh
I wish I could go back to bed now. I am officially old. I feel it when I go to bed late these days. Bleh. Good news, the day is almost over. Bad news, I still have one meeting to go.
Hmph
The house is full of holiday chocolate and I can't have any because it all has traces of nuts. That sucks.
I can't be bothered to think anymore
I am officially stopping my work day now.
This day hasn't been the best one in a while. Lets see the high points:
- The 3am 100-meter bread-machine dash to take a loaf of bread out of the machine before it gets soggy to hell and gone.
- Almost missing my bus this morning.
- Realizing that the workflow I started last night before going home, which had been running all night, was using the wrong codebase and therefore was more than useless.
- Having a fire drill sprung on me.
- Having a meeting sprung on me.
- Spending the rest of my day wrestling with an interoperability problem of having to get java to talk nicely with C# and perl and then realizing that it's fucking impossible and a huge pain in the ass.
So yes, right just this minute, I wish I was home and a bit drunk.
Update: To round out this day, I fell asleep on the bus and when I woke up in a rush to get off at my stop, I left the plastic bag with all my lunch tupperware of the week and two forks. Go me :(
Housework sucks big sweaty donkey balls
So far today, I've washed dishes and cleaned up the whole kitchen, changed the bed linens and done laundry, tidied up the living room and sorted through the piles of paperwork on my desk, taken out the garbage and the recycling and gone to pick up Katy's prescription.
I'm fed up of cleaning, and there's still more to do as this is our last real weekend before we leave for canadia.
joy.
Not good
I'm not into it today. All I want to do is lock myself in the loo and read my book.
Something's gotta give
For various reasons, Katy and I have been sniping at each other all friggin week. It's tiring. It serves no purpose. I just can't figure out how to stop it.