Public holiday here in Queensland, and in six of the other seven states or territories in Australia, but because Western Australia had their June holiday last week, and us being a national call centre at work, hmm, guess which muggins had to go into work today. But despite the whole thing of the streets of Brisbane being deserted, and the struggle of getting into town for a 10am start (kidding, just the motivation was a struggle), it will be worth it in a couple weeks when the paycheque hits the bank balance.
But god it was dead - we were doing email work, and were close to running out of that even, and Western Australia telecoms company request wise was very quiet as well - I took on average a call an hour. By 3pm, three hours before the 'day' ended, they were asking for people to bail to cut down on the overtime bill - there wasn't enough to keep us occupied. I bailed, and was happy to have worked some time up :)
Not much else has happened personally today - am having my third go of being the Germans in World War Two in the game Hearts of Iron. First scenario my blitz of France got bogged down, second go, I invaded Poland before the Poles signed up to France and Britain helping them out, but then had the Soviets whomp me (I did take Moscow though, just like Napoleon I couldn't keep it LOL). Third go around I won't invade Poland, and see if that makes the Soviets the bad guys :)
And yes, my afternoon and early evening was that sad - once I get into a computer game I don't let up for a few weeks, months. Had Big Brother on in the background earlier (rolling my eyes here at the mock moral majority tone of the show regards Michelle the saint and Glenn the devil, but Gretel revels in that sort of thing - the whole one raised eyebrow, grr LOL), and have caught up with a couple of weeks of taped Desperate Housewives...
And hmm, it has been about two weeks since I mentioned the international news - truthfully I have been in a bit of a flat patch, and haven't really been taking in what are on the BBC, Guardian and New York Times web frontpages. And tonight I have wandered in, and am spoilt for choice aargh.
Whether to choose the Paris Air Show, where the Airbus A380 did a perfect landing - or the bitching about the UK rebate to the EU finances (ah, how French, to find another thing to blame rather than yourselves about that referendum result) - or the US congressional review of the UN, which surprise surprise says the First Avenue organisation is incompetent, and could do with a corporate style of governance (after all, it worked so well for Enron, and the whole Beltway is sooo run like an efficient corporation itself LOL). Choices, choices, and I'm back in the mood for some hard hitting international media coverage.
Sport, and the Maori beat the Lions in the latest tour match, first time since the first Lions v Maori match back in 1930 - although it's about the first time the Maori have had the first pick of any players they want, even over the All Blacks. Hmm, all for extending the experience levels of fringe players etc, but that is just ridiculous. And Ferrari got onto the podium in Montreal last night, yay, Michael second, Rubens third (behind Kimi) - polesetter Button crashed out, and both Renaults retired - what a shame LOL.
Okies, that's enough for now - will spot you all again tomorrow :)
Pauly
But god it was dead - we were doing email work, and were close to running out of that even, and Western Australia telecoms company request wise was very quiet as well - I took on average a call an hour. By 3pm, three hours before the 'day' ended, they were asking for people to bail to cut down on the overtime bill - there wasn't enough to keep us occupied. I bailed, and was happy to have worked some time up :)
Not much else has happened personally today - am having my third go of being the Germans in World War Two in the game Hearts of Iron. First scenario my blitz of France got bogged down, second go, I invaded Poland before the Poles signed up to France and Britain helping them out, but then had the Soviets whomp me (I did take Moscow though, just like Napoleon I couldn't keep it LOL). Third go around I won't invade Poland, and see if that makes the Soviets the bad guys :)
And yes, my afternoon and early evening was that sad - once I get into a computer game I don't let up for a few weeks, months. Had Big Brother on in the background earlier (rolling my eyes here at the mock moral majority tone of the show regards Michelle the saint and Glenn the devil, but Gretel revels in that sort of thing - the whole one raised eyebrow, grr LOL), and have caught up with a couple of weeks of taped Desperate Housewives...
And hmm, it has been about two weeks since I mentioned the international news - truthfully I have been in a bit of a flat patch, and haven't really been taking in what are on the BBC, Guardian and New York Times web frontpages. And tonight I have wandered in, and am spoilt for choice aargh.
Whether to choose the Paris Air Show, where the Airbus A380 did a perfect landing - or the bitching about the UK rebate to the EU finances (ah, how French, to find another thing to blame rather than yourselves about that referendum result) - or the US congressional review of the UN, which surprise surprise says the First Avenue organisation is incompetent, and could do with a corporate style of governance (after all, it worked so well for Enron, and the whole Beltway is sooo run like an efficient corporation itself LOL). Choices, choices, and I'm back in the mood for some hard hitting international media coverage.
Sport, and the Maori beat the Lions in the latest tour match, first time since the first Lions v Maori match back in 1930 - although it's about the first time the Maori have had the first pick of any players they want, even over the All Blacks. Hmm, all for extending the experience levels of fringe players etc, but that is just ridiculous. And Ferrari got onto the podium in Montreal last night, yay, Michael second, Rubens third (behind Kimi) - polesetter Button crashed out, and both Renaults retired - what a shame LOL.
Okies, that's enough for now - will spot you all again tomorrow :)
Pauly
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