I'm sitting here in front of a terminal at 19:12 on Monday,
December 25. I was here yesterday at this time as well. And, I'm sure
I'll be here tomorrow.
And, what am I doing? NOTHING! There's been no new news or mail
for hours, and there're no projects to do, and nothing's broken enough
that I need to try to fix it.
So now I'm bored out of what little is left of my mind, eating
somebody else's cold General Tso's Chicken and drinking warm Mistic iced
tea (the peach flavor, yeech, but it's better than no iced tea at all),
listening to every single song that Led Zeppelin ever released ("This is
the wonder of devotion; I've seen the path we all must go.")
The last even halfway exciting thing that happened is that a luser
who thinks he's an admin (and has a 56K frame-relay to prove it) send a
message complaining that he's not getting fast enough throughput and
suggesting that maybe we should check our connectivity. AHEM! 100 Mbps
ain't good enough for 'ya? Maybe if you'd let us turn off your FULL
(except for binaries) newsfeed like we suggested!? (Mo-ron.)
And, I'm waiting for the InterNIC to respond to my request to
change the company name on mydomain.com to Grumblesmurf Internet.
Why, you may ask, am I willing to work both Christmas Eve and
Christmas Day? Well, it's because I'm a Jew, so I don't really care much
about Christmas (IMHO, if even half the stories about Jesus of Nazareth
are true then he was a really amazingly nice guy, but I still don't see
why anybody would worship him. But that's just me: a Jew with smatterings
of Hindu, Tao, and Discordian philosophies.)
And, besides, didn't you know that Chrismas Eve is when all the
Jews get together and plot to take over the world? I've even got my
Zionist Occupation Government t-shirt (thanks, Joel!) to prove that I'm a
part of the International Jewish Conspiracy, not to mention a number of
different Usenet Cabals (There Is No Cabal. Fnord.)
Sigh. Maybe one of our users is hiding kiddie porn in their FTP
directory. At least that'd give me something to do (*klickety klick*).
