Misunderstood by everyone, everywhere.
It’s not all doom and gloom up here in the great white north, this here supercompouter is what I spend most of my days working with. The rest of my days are spent working on a vast collection of Apple hardware both server and workstation. There’s a whole lot more going on too but those are the most exciting right now.
Saturday is the office christmas party in this apparently swanky joint.
Here’s an update; I still have no Internet, this is equally frustrating and crippling as I’m sure you can imagine. I’ve been turned down for a credit card by two institutions but that search continues, this is also quite crippling. Apart from those stumbling blocks, living and working are going well.
Bought my first pair of ice skates at the weekend, or if referring to ice hockey as anything other than “hockey” is a faux pas, perhaps they should simply be called “skates”. Went skating at the square in front of Town Hall . There were fireworks later which I got to almost see between two tall buildings from a far-away roof-top, it was still kinda cool.
OPP (other people’s pictures) from Saturday night here and here
This kind of thing happens all the time:
Reception wrote:
HELLO!
There’s a Pie Fairy sighting in the NOOK (the south kitchen at the back of the 2nd floor).
Go…go…go…
When I got there, there were several blueberry pies and huge peacan pies. Last week there was Systems Apple Crumble with ice cream and the week before that there was company beer and pizza. There’s always cakes and candy floating around the office. Makes a waistline cry.
I had Taco Bell for the first time on Sunday. I got a couple of bean burritos and fries. The fries were ok, probably the same or similar to the crispy fries from Burger King. What I’m most interested in is some kind of tray of fries with beans and cheese and guacamole and stuff, kinda like chili fries without the chili. So far from Roma II have I come.
On Monday my landlord rang me to let me know that since I haven’t bought a microwave yet she’s bought one for me, which is nice. I figure she knows it’s cheaper to buy one for me/the apartment than to pay for the electricity bill from me using the electric hob and oven all the time.
Today I used a Dual G5 PowerMac to prop open a cumbersome rack door.
I still have no Internets. Folks, if you thought Eircom uniquely bad, there are aggressively monopolistic incumbents across the world as I am unfortunately finding out.
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