Greetings Blog Readers,
It's been another exciting month in my little world. Exciting in the same way hunting for bombs in Iraq is exciting! It has been so eventful that I have had another edition of the bizarre the stupid and the ridiculous.
The bizarre was my Black Friday. Now I'm not superstitious. I will scoff at the black cat that strolls out in front of me, laugh as I walk under a ladder and happily sit in aisle 13 any bus, cinema or plane (especially if it is cheaper!) And so far, fickle Fate let this slide without it costing me a single hair on my head. However, last Friday the 13th , he decided that it was time for payback, times 3!
The day started calmly enough. I arrived at work on time and in one piece, but Fate was just waiting around the corner. I felt the first impact of Black Friday when I realised that my rosters at Officeworks were in conflict with my dancing schedule. To this day I don't know how they got the information that I was available on Wednesday and Thursday night. I hate missing classes like that. Because every time I do it, my dream is that much closer to just vanishing, like my brother does at clean up time! I spoke to the manager in charge at the time and she said that she had got it off my original availability sheet and since the roster had already been completed I would have a better chance of fixing the global financial crisis that fixing the roster. Fate strike one!
I thought nothing of this little pass. Just another one of those little pot holes that you invariably find in Life's road.
Fate, on the other hand was just warming up. Half way through my day, the manager asked me if I would like to do a shift the following day. I tried to remember if I had anything on my usually vacant Saturday, but nothing came to me. This is where the Stupid comes in because I didn't check my diary. As I couldn't remember anything, like a lamb to the slaughter I accepted the shift. Fate rubbed his hands with devious glee. Half way through the Jazz class that night, someone said the word graduation in passing. Lights flashed and clicked as my brain made the connection. Graduation! My sister had her graduation ceremony for receiving her AMUS for music... on Saturday!! My stomach promptly did three back flips as it embarked on a journey to the centre of the earth.
I didn't enjoy the rest of class much. I was too busy trying to work out how I was going to get myself out of this one! After class, I desperately got in touch with work, praying that they would have not packed up for the night yet. I was lucky. Fate was out to tease me, not kill me; because that is was my sister would do if I didn't show up! The closing manager was very considerate and I was able to get out of the shift. Fate strike two!
I got home that night feeling more like I had spent the day in a shooting gallery than at Aspley. Superstitious Black Friday however had to work in threes to complete his little game. I flipped open my computer looking forward to taking on the evil Empire and de-stressing by blowing up some TIE fighters. The log on screen came up and I tried to type in my password. Nothing happened. I tried moving the mouse. The mouse remained. I franticly start stabbing at buttons. Still nothing. Getting a very suspect feeling in my gut now, I disconnect the power and try a reboot. This time I don't get even a squeak out of the machine. The power light came on, but everything else was looking like George Bush's presidency. The lights are on, but nobody is home and your stomach saying this is going to be really messed up. Fate strike three! Game to Black Friday!
It took me three weeks to recover from that day. The rostering problem I had to just work through, but the computer was much more complicated. In fact it was Ridiculous! I rang Dell who were very helpful, despite being in the Philippines. They quickly determined that they needed to replace the computer's motherboard and they said that a fix-it man would be visiting soon. Only problem was that they were wrong! (Alright Malcolm, you've already said Macs are superior to PC's, no need to rub it in!) Over the next three weeks I had four visits from Dell technicians who between them replaced the motherboard (twice), one RAM chip, the fan and the multimedia buttons. The fan and multimedia buttons were broken by one technician being too rough. Ironically, the original problem was in the stick of RAM which I could have replaced myself in about 5 minutes!
That's the latest in my non-adventures in Brisbane. I hope that I've kept you entertained and feel free to post a comment if you think my writing is awesome.
Thanks for reading ;-)
DreamChaser
P.S Just checked the calendar and we have two more Black Fridays this year! HELP!!!
