so i think i finally figured out this fancy external css thing (here’s a hint: this template you are viewing right now is not it) and i can’t check it out because my stupid server is having difficulties. arrgh. did i mention it is 1:00 am?

i’m a loser. i know.

but ha ha ha! i have a pixies ticket!

10:30 – ho hum, bored at work. my work flow could be described as: long streaks of “rushed off my feet”, interspersed with stretches of “twiddling my thumbs”. it’d be really nice to have some consistency, but i don’t forsee that happening.

in the meantime, they are already asking me about doing a service-wide quality assurance post after this integration bit is over. it’d be a nice little pay rise, and a pretty significant amount of responsibility. more money, higher profile, more permanence. however i’m not sure i could deal with the frustration that accompanies it.

working in the council is truly an eye opener into local goverment. think of a snail’s pace. now think of that snail as crippled. now think of the crippled snail as being frozen inside a glacier. that’s about how fast things move, and roughly equivalent to how easy it is to get anything done. you can have initiative and ideas, but by the time you make it through 7 levels of executive groups and sub-committees and stakeholder consultations, you are ready to discard the whole thing completely.

in any case, it could be interesting, so i’ll have to think about it.

observation: this morning at my train station, i saw no fewer than 10 workers installing one cctv camera. apparently 9 were there for moral support…

did i mention i am going to see the pixies?? don’t worry, i’ll only be this annoying about it for the next 4 months.

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