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Aug. 26th, 2010
I just can't really concentrate on anything right now, my projects least of all.
My face felt like one major ache today; the pain focusing on the right side, right under the eye, and a headache which feels as if it starts under the eye and extends like a rod through the middle of my head to the back of my skull.
Currently, my face feels as if the pain has begun to subside, but it still annoys and irritates me as it currently feels like the dying stages of a massive cheese fever.
However, I feel the need to forge on, and so I shall.
On Monday or Tuesday, a friend of my folks passed. They received the news on Tuesday and promptly visited the friend's grieving relatives. For some reason unknown to me, they have taken the responsibility of preparing this friend's wake next Friday September 3rd.
Upward of 120 people may well attend the wake.
So Mum asked me to do what I do best. Dig around and find some germane information for her. Specifically, where I can get my hands on upward of 240 - 250 cocktail sausages at a nice, discount price.
It took me five minutes. If the bargain price still stands, I will have to get up bloody early tomorrow to go and pick up some of these sausages from the store and get them to the folks, who will come into town for me in the morning to whisk them away to the newly secured freezer.
They have new security measures. No two-legged vermin will get in to steal their food, now. Not without the world knowing.
Earlier, I discovered that I and this chap who keeps tabs on my jobseeking progress have something in common. We both love Babylon 5.
During the interview, this chap mentioned how he had an upcoming event, and that if he could obtain the boxed sets of all five seasons of Babylon 5 on DVD, that would make his day. He asked me for information about the whereabouts of such a resource.
As a digger and technomage, I could not refuse such a challenge.
It took me thirty minutes, tops, including 25 minutes of legwork and just five minutes of asking the right person in the right store. One map later, and I had made his day, and demonstrated my most prized transferrable skill - the ability to dig up data on anything, given time and the availability of my sources, and of course my propensity to find just the thing that will happen to make somebody's day.
I live for the fun. I die for the fun.
Tomorrow, more maths blogging, and a little explanation.
My face felt like one major ache today; the pain focusing on the right side, right under the eye, and a headache which feels as if it starts under the eye and extends like a rod through the middle of my head to the back of my skull.
Currently, my face feels as if the pain has begun to subside, but it still annoys and irritates me as it currently feels like the dying stages of a massive cheese fever.
However, I feel the need to forge on, and so I shall.
On Monday or Tuesday, a friend of my folks passed. They received the news on Tuesday and promptly visited the friend's grieving relatives. For some reason unknown to me, they have taken the responsibility of preparing this friend's wake next Friday September 3rd.
Upward of 120 people may well attend the wake.
So Mum asked me to do what I do best. Dig around and find some germane information for her. Specifically, where I can get my hands on upward of 240 - 250 cocktail sausages at a nice, discount price.
It took me five minutes. If the bargain price still stands, I will have to get up bloody early tomorrow to go and pick up some of these sausages from the store and get them to the folks, who will come into town for me in the morning to whisk them away to the newly secured freezer.
They have new security measures. No two-legged vermin will get in to steal their food, now. Not without the world knowing.
Earlier, I discovered that I and this chap who keeps tabs on my jobseeking progress have something in common. We both love Babylon 5.
During the interview, this chap mentioned how he had an upcoming event, and that if he could obtain the boxed sets of all five seasons of Babylon 5 on DVD, that would make his day. He asked me for information about the whereabouts of such a resource.
As a digger and technomage, I could not refuse such a challenge.
It took me thirty minutes, tops, including 25 minutes of legwork and just five minutes of asking the right person in the right store. One map later, and I had made his day, and demonstrated my most prized transferrable skill - the ability to dig up data on anything, given time and the availability of my sources, and of course my propensity to find just the thing that will happen to make somebody's day.
I live for the fun. I die for the fun.
Tomorrow, more maths blogging, and a little explanation.
