Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009 - 23:21

Blargh. I've got a cold and have had a pretty taxing week at work. Hmm.. speaking of a 'pretty tax', how would that work? Would it lead to people deliberately mutilating their faces to avoid paying more? Who would do the judging? I think there might be a backlash in the form of those Moslem veil hijab things.

1. The major stress of the week was an incident on Monday (or it may have been Tuesday) when a refusal by some 'blind as a bat and refusing to acknowledge it' woman at work to sign a lab memo I was passing round - because I had picked her and four other technicians out as having made the same mistake with their paperwork. Because I was left feeling powerless to do my job, because I wasn't backed up by the lab managers/supervisors, and because I really didn't have the time to fuck about chasing up people for not doing thier job properly.. and THEN re-writing memos to them because some of them don't like the way I've written the memo.. well it left me angry and sad and stressy.

2. Thankfully the rest of the week passed away ever more busy, but with less stress. My boss was on site Thursday and Friday but seemed pleased with much I'd been doing. The Site Manager was being chased by his bosses for a progress report on my work, and backed me up when I said I was doing what I could.. so I think he's happy with my effort. I can't really do much more than I am putting in, and I feel quite secure in my job overall.

3. Strickly tonight saw the exit of Richard Dunwoody, to the relief of Craig Kelly, who was also in the dance-off. I saw Craig Kelly once in a supermarket in Crouch End, you know. OKay, so that's pretty crap as far as 'celebrity stories' go, but on the same morning I also saw the black lass who was in the first series of Big Brother (Mel?).

4. Anyhow, last night's dances were better than tonight's, plus some of the tired pantomime villain stuff w.r.t. booing Craig Revel Hallmark.. well it grates with me a tad. That bloke from Hollyoaks is a bit of a ringer, and some of the biased not noticing faults stuff is a little uneven. Still, you gotta love the show, flaws or no flaws.

5. I was supposed to meet up with a friend today for a few drinks (in truth there is a part of me which is glad I didn't, due to the fact my cold and sore throat has got worse throughout the day) but he cancelled in the end. He's got trouble at home with his bat-shit crazy missus, and had to take a rain check. In truth I understand that you gotta do what you gotta do (and I am guilty of being misused by women in the past and allowing it to spoil other aspects of my life) but it is a shame.

6. I feel bad to say it, but I hope that he and her break up. I don't wish the unhappiness of a break-up on him, but I fear that the pain of staying in something so chaotic and frequently cacky, well it'll be worse for my mate in the end I think.

7. I'm not going to waste (well, 'fill') umpteen paragraphs with lots of description of todays football. Suffice to say there were plenty plenty of goals in the top division.

8. Liverpool dished out a heavy 6-1 defeat to Hull, and Spurs got a similar win against Burnley. Man United didn't play well but beat Stoke. There were narrow wins for Birmingham, Everton and Blackburn over Bolton, Portsmouth and Aston Villa. The surprise result of the day was Wigan's 3-1 home victory against Chelsea.

9. In the Championship, Newcastle slaughtered Ipswich in the evening's televised game. Middlesbrough let a 2-0 half time lead slip against Coventry and only left with a point (falling to 4th place). At the same time, Arsenal limped past Fulham 1-0.

10. LISTENING TO:- I listened to 'Chinese Democracy' by Guns 'n' Roses yesterday, and it's a pretty promising album. Nothing really stood out, but it's enough like what they used to do well to please me (though I have changed in the last eighteen years too, unsurprisingly).