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Someone at work borrowed my old laptop for three months. I got it back yesterday and she said ’sorry, the (PCI) wifi card is a bit bent. I’ll get you a new one if you really want me to’.

It’s practically broken in two. If I borrowed something expensive off of someone and broke it, I’d buy a new one immediately and not guilt the other into saying it’s ok.

What is WRONG with people?

Finding pictures of said colleague, partly naked, on the hard disk partly makes up for it all.

Spending money before you’ve got it… to be able to earn it. That’s what I did today. I have been working on a website for a colleague the last couple of weekends. It’s been tough because the house has been drafty and cold – not the ideal circumstances to sit still in – but also because my old LG monitor was getting old in the teeth and very blurry in some areas of the screen. I was squinting too much and it was tiring. So I went to a computer hardware store this morning to buy myself a TFT-monitor.

I hadn’t really prepared for it, all I knew was I wanted ‘a black one’ and I wanted it fast.

In the shop I pointed out their cheapest Acer monitor and asked if it was available in black. It wasn’t. So I pointed to the dearer black Iiyama ProLite E431s and said: ‘Ok, gimme that one.’ They came back with a box, I pulled my credit card, cussed when they charged 1.5% extra for the use of the card ($&#*!! bloody annoying country…)

Then I rushed back home to connect the thing and start working. On the tram I thought to myself… ‘wouldn’t it be typical if they’d sold me a silver coloured monitor?’

Well, they did.

But fuck it, at least I can see what I’m doing now.

This has been bothering me all weekend. I have some MP3’s at work, a full (recently released?) album by a band whose name I can’t recall. I’d never heard of them before, but they may have been around for a while. My colleague passed them on to me. I went through all the Pitchfork reviews and current charts yesterdat, but couldn’t find them. I don’t know anything about the band and haven’t heard the songs enough to say anything about them, but their singer sounds a lot like Tom Jones. I think they’re British, but they might not be. I think their name sounded a little odd or funny, in that it didn’t fit with the music they played. I could wait till tomorrow to find out, but maybe you can tell me right now.Update: Duh. Remembered I can access work mail from home, found the original mail with the download link. The band is called Electric Six . If the Scissor Sisters played rock music, that’s what they sound like.

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