Monday 25th October 2004
No, I won’t fix your computer
…unless you ask me nicely.
I’m not updating this much, as you’ve probably noticed. A few things are conspiring against my blogging. First of all, I don’t have an internet connection at home, and during the day I have work to do. So that hampers my posting ability. Secondly, since I don’t spend all my time surfing the web, checking other people’s weblogs and stuff, I don’t find as much stuff to link to any more. And when I do, I generally don’t have much time to post about it. As I’ve explained.
Apart from that, I’m having a great time. I’m working at the Charing Cross Hospital, doing support for the Imperial College Faculty of Medicine researchers who work here. Outside that, I spend a lot of time meeting up with friends; both in the bar (of course), and when I go climbing – we’ve been going twice a week for the past month, and I’m getting quite good.
The one bad thing is that most of my out-of-hours conversations keep revolving back to IT related stuff. Computers are such a big thing in most people’s lives, and there’s a fairly strong geek crowd at Imperial (and in That Club in particular), so lots of people want to talk about them. I’m especially fed up of people whinging at me that other people in ICT aren’t sorting out their problem, as if a) I care or b) I can do anything about it. Never mind the IT groupies, a few of my friends work in ICT too, and it’s too easy to fall into talking shop with them. Sure, it’s great that other people know exactly how you feel when icfs9 goes down (again, grrrr), but I’m trying to not make my job a 24/7 thing.
So if you see me around, feel free to ask me how my job is going (great, thanks), but I’m more than willing to talk about other stuff.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/frustrations/388b/
Comment by Mike — 28/10/2004 @ 1:43 pm
Last payday a link was sent out to those ThinkGeek tshirts on one of our internal lists, but my line manager says I’m not allowed to wear them at work!
(The slogan was the inspiration for the post title, but I was too lazy to check it matched exactly)
Comment by Andy — 28/10/2004 @ 2:16 pm