Stand Out Of The Way!
There's a handcart with my life on coming through - destination, Hell!
For a start, the two major problems I mentioned at work are still a couple of weeks away from a resolution (maybe longer), and the boss is away this week.
Then there's the fact that my exam results are due in a couple of weeks, and in about a week & a half I've got a 5 hour simulation to sit for the unit I sat the exam in... and I still can't do it. And the simulation is worse than the exam, because you've got to show that you are competent in EVERYTHING we studied for that exam - and that forms the vocational, work-based part of the qualification. And in June I've still got to sit a simulation for the other unit (the one I miraculously passed the exam in last June). Then there's the unit we're doing now, which has no exam, but still has a vocational element to be done for my portfolio. I think if I'd known what this qualification was going to entail, and how difficult it was going to be, I'd never have started it.
Then there's the fact that I couldn't watch "Reaper" tonight because for the last 2 nights, and now tonight as well, I've had no picture on my TV - only sound. I don't know what's wrong with it (well, I do - it's a SHARP, and I've never had a good SHARP appliance yet... but it was cheap, and all we had in stock at work at the time, and our previous TV had died completely so we needed a new one like immediately), but when you turn it on first (or switch it from standby, since I don't ever turn it off completely anymore due to its little problem) the sound comes on fine, but the screen stays black... and then for the first few weeks, it would come on itself after anything from 10 minutes to 3 hours. And then I found that if I gave it a tap on the top, it made the picture come on... but the last 2 nights I have battered seven shades of shit out of it and nothing... nada... zip... diddley squat... bugger all - you get the picture (except, of course, a picture is just what you DON'T get). So I've got to wait until I get someone to take the TV I've got in my bedroom (which is kind of a spare) downstairs and connect it all up to the Sky dish and everything to see if it works, coz there's no way I can even think about buying a new TV at the moment, or for the foreseeable future.
And this damn computer's not running brilliantly tonight... It's a bit slow switching between applications and windows, and IE's crashed once already.
What next? I ask myself (but quietly, just in case fate or the gods are listening and decide to show me just what surprises they've got up their sleeves for me).
I think I'll go bugger off now and find a rock to hide under for a few months...
For a start, the two major problems I mentioned at work are still a couple of weeks away from a resolution (maybe longer), and the boss is away this week.
Then there's the fact that my exam results are due in a couple of weeks, and in about a week & a half I've got a 5 hour simulation to sit for the unit I sat the exam in... and I still can't do it. And the simulation is worse than the exam, because you've got to show that you are competent in EVERYTHING we studied for that exam - and that forms the vocational, work-based part of the qualification. And in June I've still got to sit a simulation for the other unit (the one I miraculously passed the exam in last June). Then there's the unit we're doing now, which has no exam, but still has a vocational element to be done for my portfolio. I think if I'd known what this qualification was going to entail, and how difficult it was going to be, I'd never have started it.
Then there's the fact that I couldn't watch "Reaper" tonight because for the last 2 nights, and now tonight as well, I've had no picture on my TV - only sound. I don't know what's wrong with it (well, I do - it's a SHARP, and I've never had a good SHARP appliance yet... but it was cheap, and all we had in stock at work at the time, and our previous TV had died completely so we needed a new one like immediately), but when you turn it on first (or switch it from standby, since I don't ever turn it off completely anymore due to its little problem) the sound comes on fine, but the screen stays black... and then for the first few weeks, it would come on itself after anything from 10 minutes to 3 hours. And then I found that if I gave it a tap on the top, it made the picture come on... but the last 2 nights I have battered seven shades of shit out of it and nothing... nada... zip... diddley squat... bugger all - you get the picture (except, of course, a picture is just what you DON'T get). So I've got to wait until I get someone to take the TV I've got in my bedroom (which is kind of a spare) downstairs and connect it all up to the Sky dish and everything to see if it works, coz there's no way I can even think about buying a new TV at the moment, or for the foreseeable future.
And this damn computer's not running brilliantly tonight... It's a bit slow switching between applications and windows, and IE's crashed once already.
What next? I ask myself (but quietly, just in case fate or the gods are listening and decide to show me just what surprises they've got up their sleeves for me).
I think I'll go bugger off now and find a rock to hide under for a few months...
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