Vampire shift
I'm back in hell! Boo! But hell is other people and I'm back on night shift so people are few and far between so I guess that makes hell a little less unpleasant. In fact, it's been pretty goddamned pleasant so far. When you catch bad news for people you don't like, that's like getting good news for yourself! And man, I can't get enough good news lately.
So Katie and I decided when I was home that we were done with CDs. It's basically a dead medium that we both have entirely too much invested into and it's all going nowhere. It's consumptive and wasteful now that we can get legal unprotected MP3s from Amazon and Zune Marketplace and elsewheres and we both have Zunes. There's just no reason to buy CDs anymore.
So I've been enjoying the hell out of my Zune and auto-playlists. I've got one that is 100 songs I've never listened to in random order and it's great. I can sit here and goof off and when I hear a song I like I'll mark it as good and when a crap song comes on I'll mark it such and skip it. And when I'm feeling nerdy I've got like 8 podcasts I'm subscribed to so I've got some kind of nerds (tech nerds, video game nerds) talking at me and that's rather fun.
While I was gone someone important's laptop crapped out and the people in my section gave him mine. No one backed up my stuff for me so I'm pretty sure it's all gone. That's a really shitty thing to do. I mean I know they think I do nothing but play games and view webpages on it and that is a lot of what I do but I also believe in seperating work and fun so all my work was on that laptop as well as other unreproducable items and those files are all gone. So lesson learned here, when you leave for a long period of time and you think you're leaving your work laptop unsecured so other people can get use out of it in your absence, fuck them. Lock it up somewhere and toss the key or take the damned thing with you. Or at least take the hard drive out and stow it somewhere, which has the same effect as leaving behind a paperweight. Because the people you work with don't give a fuck about work you do that they aren't benefitting from and no one's getting points for being considerate around here.
Oh well, enough downers. I want to post huge news but I think I'll make a new one for it.