The Late Shift: IS IT LATE ENOUGH?

23:32 / 14.01.05

Not bad... I've just found out that the one job I really couldn't face doing this weekend doesn't actually have to be done at weekends! So even work's not so bad tonight.

Saint Keggers

23:50 / 14.01.05

Ah evil work what need not be done is indeed rather grand!

8:50pm, and I still hate sting

00:01 / 15.01.05

2:00am, and I finally get the modem I bought off ebay working. Now my computer has decided that it really needs to download about 3,000,000 (conservative estimate) patches for XP. *sigh* That new Mac Mini is looking mighty fine right about now.

Evenin' all.

00:15 / 15.01.05

8:50pm, and I still hate sting

Surely that can't be subject to change?

Ah, the joys of XP. Mine's buggered completely due to SP2 fucking up during installation... seeing as how my PC came with XP pre-installed it looks like I'm gonna have to go out and buy a new boxed edition... curse you, Gates, you fuckstick.

00:20 / 15.01.05

You didn't get a copy of XP with your system, Stoatie? Or did you only get a set of 'System Restore Disks' that reset your entire computer?

00:24 / 15.01.05

Neither.
That's actually more common than you might imagine...

00:26 / 15.01.05

Buy an OEM version then, they're a couple of quid cheaper than the boxed versions you get in PC World and the like.

00:34 / 15.01.05

Sounds good.

...umm... (whispers) what's OEM?

00:39 / 15.01.05

OEM stands for...something that I've forgotten at this late hour. Basically it means that you don't get a colourful box with the product. Everything else is the same. In the case of XP, all you get is a thin manual with a product code and a CD-ROM with the OS on it. You can OEM versions of most products that have to do with computers, both hard- and software.

alas

02:57 / 15.01.05

'lo everyone. I'm just sticking my head up through the door in the floor of the late shift before I run off to the land of nod. Enough computer geekiness, here--if no one's allowed to bring in educated pirates, well, then I say no more discussions of windows products!

03:24 / 15.01.05

Aar.

I mean. Um.

bio k9

03:29 / 15.01.05

Ok. This might be the coolest action figure ever. Someone buy it for me.

Or buy it for yourself and invite me over to play.

Please?

alas

04:09 / 15.01.05

(stoatie, you're my favorite educated pirate.)

04:52 / 15.01.05

Arr thankee shipmate.

Sean the frumious Bandersnatch

20:54 / 15.01.05

Oh yes. I have wine so cheap it burns the flesh from your tongue.

Anyone about?

21:06 / 15.01.05

nope.

Brigade du jour

21:15 / 15.01.05

Suedey, this wine of yours - it doesn't have the word 'Sarson's' on the label, does it?

Bed Head

21:20 / 15.01.05

That so-called ‘red wine vinegar’ is a bloody rip off, it has to be said. It’s just rancid ribina, and what’s the point of that?

21:27 / 15.01.05

mmm. It's...

Vin de pays d'oc
CABERNET SAUVIGNON

How are you all?

21:48 / 15.01.05

Guys!

21:57 / 15.01.05

I've been drinking cobra and watching Oceans 11. I'm soooooo gay in love with George Clooney. But it's okay, I've explained the whole thing to Mrs The Ball (TBC) and she understands.

22:01 / 15.01.05

I wish I was gay.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

22:01 / 15.01.05

I'll see your vicious Cabernet and raise you a carton of Rose, sixty cents a litre. (That's about 40p).

22:03 / 15.01.05

That's not fair, Mordant! I would be in heaven with that!

I never said I didn't *like* cheap wine. It feels right. It's where I belong. I am home.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

22:04 / 15.01.05

Nyahh hahhahaha! I'm going to gluzzle my cheapest of cheap wine in front of you! I'm going to quaff it so half of it goes down my front or in my ears!

22:10 / 15.01.05

I had to fight the urge to drink my housemates bottle of wine that he got given for christmas, and his stupid three beers that he has in the cool, cool fridge. I had to fight them and instead eat almost all of my jar of wine gums and pretend.... mmmm, a diamond of port....

22:11 / 15.01.05

Nooooooo! The horror! THE HORRRRRROR!

I only have one bottle, you know, and you mock me! With your cheapest of the cheap, guzzling it like you are on some awful milk advert... Pah! A pox on you!

Bed Head

22:13 / 15.01.05

Oops, sorry. So, this is interesting. I have rather nice port tonight and you lot all have nasty rotgut. Obviously, I’ve logged on to Bizarro barbelith by mistake.

Not that I’m complaining for now. *glug*

22:14 / 15.01.05

I WANT PORT!

22:16 / 15.01.05

I should have drunk less and slept more today. Now I'm at work and feel a bit poo.

22:17 / 15.01.05

I should have drunk more and slept less...

22:18 / 15.01.05

Sleep is the cousin of death

22:21 / 15.01.05

Sleep is the cousin of GOD.

22:24 / 15.01.05

My father tortured me as a child by never letting me sleep. He would come into my room during the school holidays as early in the morning as you like, and open my curtains and tell me that he was going to work, but that I didn't need to get up. I tried to explain to him that a) I'd gone to sleep really late and that b) I could never get back to sleep once he did this so asked if he'd stop. He never did.

Years later he admitted that he did it because he found it funny.