mousme: A view of a woman's legs from behind, wearing knee-high rainbow socks. The rest of the picture is black and white. (Jayne your mouth is talking)
mousme ([personal profile] mousme) wrote2006-12-12 08:30 pm

Ah, the joys of computer problems

The IT people "fixed" my problem by making it even worse. So now I'm stuck with nothing to do until tomorrow, when they will tackle it again.

*twiddles thumbs*


The little Italian guy with whom I'm working is 21 and obviously mentally about twelve. I think I threaten his manhood. It's charming, in an annoying sort of way. Luckily the other guy on shift is older, married, and a lot more sensible. Nice, too. Things are quiet right now, and I doubt they'll get much busier before I have to leave at 11pm.

I'm going to try to catch the bus at St. Henri metro station tonight, in the hopes that I'll be able to get home, if not faster, then at least without having to walk from the metro after midnight. My neighbourhood is pretty safe, but I'd feel better not having to walk all that way in the dark.

Last night there was a homeless man standing at the bottom of the escalator, blocking the way for everyone. He was just standing there, twisting a bottle around and around in his hands, practically catatonic. It was sad, but at the same time I was a little worried. It was a large and sturdy-looking glass bottle, and, well, if he'd been violent (which he wasn't) he could have done someone some pretty serious harm. By the time I lost sight of him the little STM man was talking to him. I hope things worked out.

In other news, I missed the garbage pickup by five minutes yesterday. I was most annoyed. Tomorrow night I shall put the garbage on the kerb ahead of time.

There's a possibility that my company will want me to work overtime on New Year's weekend. I am most displeased. The other new girl who was meant to work weekends all through the holidays is in the hospital with a ruptured cyst in her stomach, and so everyone is being drafted to replace her. I've already made it pretty clear that I will work anytime for them except the 31st. On the plus side, it would mean some extra cash, but [livejournal.com profile] joane and [livejournal.com profile] shenlo only come to Montreal once a year, and I'm not going to miss them just for work, dagnabbit. They don't need me the 23rd, thank goodness, so I don't have to fight about that.

In case you were interested, the cleaning proceeds apace. Slower than I'd like, but I think ought to have the place in good order by the time the New Year rolls around.

So he was talking?

[identity profile] fearsclave.livejournal.com 2006-12-13 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
And showed no obvious signs of necrosis or cannibalistic tendencies?

Re: So he was talking?

[identity profile] mousme.livejournal.com 2006-12-13 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Nope. No signs of zombism whatsoever.

Re: So he was talking?

[identity profile] fearsclave.livejournal.com 2006-12-13 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
Rats. How disappointing.

So what's the scoop on next weekend? It looks like Dav and Nico and one of their friends and possibly Anik and Nigel will be coming out on Sunday...

Re: So he was talking?

[identity profile] mousme.livejournal.com 2006-12-13 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
It looks like I'll be able to come up on Sunday as well. Maybe I can snag a lift with one of the aforementioned people?

Re: So he was talking?

[identity profile] fearsclave.livejournal.com 2006-12-13 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Sure; ping Dav and/or Anik. Teaching Dav to shoot is on the agenda, so we'll be giving the Zombie Rifle a workout :).

Re: So he was talking?

[identity profile] fearsclave.livejournal.com 2006-12-13 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
I'm interested in seeing how you'll do now that I've scoped it...

Re: So he was talking?

[identity profile] mousme.livejournal.com 2006-12-13 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh! Exciting!

I'm very excited to be coming back to see all of you. It's been way too long. :)

With any luck I'll be able to come by more often in the New Year, prolly somewhere around the last week of January. Think you'll be around/available then?

Re: So he was talking?

[identity profile] fearsclave.livejournal.com 2006-12-13 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Quite possibly :).

Re: So he was talking?

[identity profile] mousme.livejournal.com 2006-12-13 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
Huzzah!

[identity profile] joane.livejournal.com 2006-12-13 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
The vital question - do you have any kind of email/webmail access at work?

[identity profile] mousme.livejournal.com 2006-12-13 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
Uh, sort of. Email tends to be stupidly busy here (300+ emails a day), so it may not be the most reliable form of communication.

I can be reached at: DBrunelle at boomerangtracking dot com (it's case sensitive).

[identity profile] tcaptain.livejournal.com 2006-12-13 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
In case you were interested, the cleaning proceeds apace. Slower than I'd like, but I think ought to have the place in good order by the time the New Year rolls around.

At least you started yours. I've lost sight of my floors in several rooms during the last couple of weeks. Ugh.

[identity profile] mousme.livejournal.com 2006-12-14 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
You can do it! I've given myself the goal of having the whole place pristine before the New Year. Maybe you could set yourself a goal to motivate yourself? Think of it as the NaNoWriMo of cleaning. ;)

[identity profile] tcaptain.livejournal.com 2006-12-14 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
ROFL

Good idea!