Monthly Archives: September 2004

I don’t think I need to eat anything until sometime next month. I have just experienced the horror which is Outback Aussie Cheese Fries. Not that they taste bad! Oh, no. Far from it! They’re dangerously tasty.
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They’re remodeling all up and down the hallway here at work. One of the side effects is that there are occasionally large desks or file cabinets stacked in the hall. Today there are several sets of under-desk drawer units. Now, since this is sort of thing that will eventually be bolted to the bottom of a wood-paneled desk, they don’t bother finishing the surfaces that won’t be visible. And to protect the wood finish from passing traffic, whoever stacked them up in the hall has turned the veneer side toward the wall. The result is several tall, rectangular, matte black pillars at odd intervals down the hallway.

All we need an eerie humming sound when someone touches one, and we’ll be all set…

There’s a beaut of an article at the Register pointing folks to a section of the official website of the Scottish Parliament which is written in Scots. It’s absolutely fascinating, as a non-Scots speaker, to see how much is readable.

Here’s a representative sample:

We want tae mak siccar that awbody is able tae visit the Scottish Pairlament biggin. Wir premises is awready designit tae be as accessible as possible. Hooanever, gin ye are disablit and hae ony specific requirements, ye?re gey walcome tae contact us afore yer visit.

I think my brain is starting to give way under the work stress this week. I caught sight of a sign out of the corner of my eye, advertising the next meeting of the Gastrointestinal Journal society, and for a brief shining moment I caught myself wondering why a group of doctors would be writing about GI Joe.
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So, does Hallmark have a line of “Sorry you lost your space probe” cards for the folks at NASA yet?

Met one of the people who are going to be moving into our office once we’ve moved into out new location. Of course, we’re not going to move until all the old stuff that’s stored in the new office is moved out, and that’s not going to happen for a while yet. Then the remodeling crew needs to go over the new place, and the electricians, and the networking people. And for all that time this new person doesn’t even have a place to hang her coat. She’s literally using her car as an office… We’ve joked occasionally that we’re not going to move until we’re as busy as it’s possible to be. It’s starting to look less like a joke now.
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