The 7:08 is running 4 minutes on time.

Yes, according to State Rail, if you’re running 4 minutes late, you are still considered to be on time.  Wow!  Didn’t know State Rail had the capacity to turn back time… Cher must be on the State Rail Board or something. (lame joke).

At least the annoying guard from yesterday isn’t on.  The train is pretty quiet this morning except the guy who keeps making mobile phone calls and tells people “I cant talk at the moment, I’m ‘on the train’”.  Is it just me, or are all these people stupid.  Stupid enough to warrant being lined up collectively against the wall.  Aaaggh!  He has one of those polyphonic (is that a real word?) ring tones.  Because we are going down the mountain at the moment, it keeps cutting out and his persistent caller keeps calling back.

Today is Friday and hence thoughts turn to the weekend ahead.  Tomorrow I am going Paintballing at Action Paintball.  I have been there once before and it’s a great day.  I am going as part of work’s social club and the best part of being in the social club is that these sort of events are FREE!  A few of my department colleagues are going to go and in all there’s about 25 people playing.  My last visit was to my mate Cam’s Bucks Day and that was fantastic.  There will be bruises however, don’t let people kid you that it doesn’t hurt!

The rest of the weekend is pretty quiet.

Also, I note that my blog is looking untidy because all my posts are “different”.  This is because depending on how I post, the format is different.  Direct posts via Blogger are neat and tidy and have that crisper font.  These email posts tend to use a bigger font and have hideous spaces between the paragraphs.  I am editing the paragraph spacing in this email and the font size to see if it affects the posting.

I was told this week that I am getting a new laptop because this one has reached “obsolete” status.  Works fine for me though, but you never knock back a new laptop.  The pain though is that I have customised this one just right.  Work has fairly slack administrator rights on its PC’s and laptops and I have been able to add many programs to it.  Firefox, Klipfolio, Picasa are the most recent.  What annoys me though is that they launched a new Intranet at work this week and the functionality of it doesn’t work on Firefox.  In  particular, the phone database doesn’t work.  I have the “View In IE” extension on Firefox happening, so the Intranet means I now have IE running as well on the desktop.  Hasn’t been a problem so far, but has been annoying.  I was told discretely that the new Intranet will support all browsers, but that is clearly not the case.

Still on PC’s, my home PC is running crappy at the moment.  Lots of lag in opening up applications.  I will do the defrag/spyware thing this weekend too.  The thing is 4-5 years old and still runs on W98SE so I cant complain too much.  May have to start thinking of that upgrade…

Work has been very busy and hence I have done minimal surfing on the web for any weird links.  I generally use StumbleUpon for my browsing – its amazing the things it brings up.  A plug though for a fumbbl mates blog though.  The Chunkspot is there to be looked at if you feel inclined.  I do know Chunky’s real name too….

Well better sign off… have some work to do on the train.  That guy has stopped prattling on his phone, so all is quiet atm.