Captivity - Day 10

Hi ho
Hi ho

Hi WHO?

It's the start of a brand new week! How can we tell?
Can't be the weather; it's gray and raining, like most other days.
Our bodies seem to know it's Monday.
Ah, yes, the alarm went off.
The dog, much smarter than me, is still in bed. You have to figure it's difficult, when most of your day is taken up shredding stuffed animals and following Mommy around the house.

At least the traffic continues to be light.

Work will be fun this week.
Last week we had a meeting wherein the Boss said "Don't use the spanner to adjust the fringati." The meeting got heated.  Naturally the first thing I see is that someone used the spanner to adjust the fringati.  I like the people I work with. Some of them are just more stupid than others.

Even more fun was the new software, to replace the old software. It duplicates much of the existing software, but in a larger, clunkier way, so I understand why we needed it. It can do all sorts of things the other software did, plus new, useless things. In fact, I can now connect to all the old software I never used, plus new, horrible, dreaded software. Because it came from the same company as the old software, nothing's the same. You have to adapt to IT. This is made 3 times as amusing, as everybody has the software, no one knows how to use it, and the old software no longer works. Just for fun, it wants to take up all of my monitor space. If I add another monitor, it wants that space too.

The question remains 'how do I get my work done?'
The answer is 'you don't.' Just spend a few weeks watching YouTube videos of other people looking like they use it. Because I'm easily amused, maybe I'll watch the videos in a different language... when we're talking this software, all languages sound the same anyway. Did you notice I didn't say Microsoft once? But wait!!!! If you buy one new program, it eats all your other programs! Yes, the computer is so slow, I have to wait for the mouse to show up when I move it.


I spent some non-working time, which looks exactly like working time, cleaning up the 'office'. It's not that I had to put the whole thing together in a day.. it's that it's been a while since I've been in the office, which doubles as an electronics workbench, storage, a radio room, and a place to store the bodies before I put them in the basement. The first problem was getting INTO the room... the dust had piled up so high, it wouldn't let me open the door. I don't want to say it's been a while, but the monitors were square. One rental of a small backhoe later, I was safely seated at my new desk. Since it's going to be a while, I had the bodies removed. I found stuff I didn't know I had, including a Fender Stratocaster, flipped around, with Hendrix's autograph. I don't think it's been that long, but I suspect the fact that the autograph was done in crayon means something.

Another benefit of working at home is that falling asleep in an office chair and doesn't quite carry the stigma it did when I worked in a building. I already miss the lady who snored and the older dude calling the pharmacy for his Cialis.


It could be worse. Kentucky's borders were closed, among others. They didn't want the drunk tractor races to leave the state.

But seriously.. can't these governors do something useful for once?