pmsumner

I had an urge tonight, to listen to Portishead. I've had my Eels CD in my bedroom for an age, today found the case down the side of the bed. I was getting quite worried - I haven't lost a CD case yet. Maybe the two are inter-related? I mean, finding Eels and wanting Portishead?

Anyhow. I spent ages and ages and ages on the phone tonight with terulia. We argued for a while over language. I am a passionate believer in the idea that no matter how you communicate an idea, it really doesn't matter. She disagrees.

Fairly obviously, this isn't everything that we discussed, but that's what it appears to come down to. I also appeared to hit on something which I also believe quite strongly. We (the human race) are lazy. Look at us over the past few hundred yrs. We have used up vast amounts of energy in creating machinery which makes our life easier, which removes the need for us to do things ourselves. Simple examples? The the cotton jin, the motor car, the computer, the remote control. Heck, you could even say the wheel counts, if you take the idea far enough.

The reason that I expressed this was because Irene said something about people saying "Burfday", but people would not say "Thuck you". Why not? Surely it's down to laziness. "F" is an easier sound to make than "th".

Am I right? Am I wrong? Do you agree that people are fundamentally lazy?

Today had the potential for being a fantastic day, really. I woke up extraordinarily late (about 12:30pm) after my extraordinarily late night. I grabbed a can of 'bru, spodded for an hour or so then put one of the pizzas in. Good pizza.

The sun was shining in plentiful quantities. Really sunny and warm outside. I even figured out that I could open my windows wide enough to wash them, so my bedroom windows are squeaky clean. Then it all started to go downhill.

What is it that makes it hard for people to believe what I tell them? It's not just one case, it happens every bloody day (especially at work). It's almost like I have "idiot" tatooed across my voice (that doesn't make any sense). People always assume when I say something with absolute clarity that I mean something else, I obviously don't really mean it and that I don't know what I am talking about, and I don't get it. I say "No, I'm afraid I can't give you any money off that phone, after all - it's heavily subsidised", and people say "but I'm sure you can do it, for me? After all - I've been a loyal customer!" (for all of 12months - which you are contractually obliged to be anyhow).

That's one (rather poor) example. And (maybe) am I (possibly) using too many parentheses in this entry(????)?

Tomorrow I plan to do pretty much the same. Slob, clean my front windows (truly, they are filthy and I will NOT pay someone to do them for me - even if I could I wouldn't). Read more of the Gods trilogy, and maybe some of Miss Wyoming, which I am struggling my way through. I love my library already :)

Yay for having Java in my Mozilla again - pain in the arse Linux strikes once again. Apparently SuSE have been compiling things with gcc3, and as Sun and IBM's Java stuff is done with gcc2, it means that they can't be used together. If you are an SuSE user, look at this page for more.

Overtime today went without many hitches. Oh, except for the man who insisted he didn't have a contract. "I bought my mobile phone off the shelf, I didn't sign anything, therefore I don't have a contract with you". I had to try and supress the laughter at that fantastic comment. Why can you never find the clue-stick when you need it?

Oh, and I also agree with someone's comment - I think I saw it in skinglist's journal somewhere - everybody should be made to work at least a month or two in retail/customer service. A bit like conscription but for Sears or Wal*Mart :) I think the world would be a much nicer place.

Have I wibbled on long enough now?

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