honest day's work

"It's been a hard day's night, and I'd been working like a dog
It's been a hard day's night, I should be sleeping like a log
But when I get home to you, I find the things that you do
Will make me feel alright"
The Beatles - 'Hard Day's Night'

yes, that pretty much sums up my day! it felt very good/weird to actually do a honest day's work!! first time since sometime in june when i was working on the archi. dept. cleanups. library is good work though, quite chilled out if it wasn't for the long hours.. and of course if i got paid more than basic wage it would be great.. but we gotta start somewhere i guess..

in fact i got a bit buzzed by this 'hard-work' fever and went to the lab too!! it was not a good sign that all my apparatus was still lying exactly where i left it all some two odd weeks ago!! so i went and moved things around.. washed a few germanium slides, refilled my distilled water bottles, stacked the equipment differently, fudged some data (basically just changed the dates of my spectroscopy readouts from 9/14 to 9/24 - changing a handwritten 1 to a 2 is easy!!), and i was good for another one week sabbatical at least ;-))

it's taking time getting used to not having some 300+ channels.. but we still do have nearly 100!! besides, having returned the cable decoder, its a bit of pain going to the menu channel to find out what's happening next.. it hampers planning of a night's television entertainment!! ;-))

tried listening to the first presidential debate of the campaign.. i had to leave after the first ten minutes.. when kerry was bad, bush was worse, and vice versa.. i pity the american people and the world at large that we have to choose one of two rotten apples out of a completely decomposed bushel. never ever heard so much hogwash.. no wait!! i have!! the last pesidential election!! click here for reviews.

i take back my statement of yesterday that Slash's Snakepit was the highlight of the bunch i bought.. i listened to Mother Love Bone properly today, and they are good!! stone gossard and jeff ament moved on from here to form Pearl Jam, so they come from good stock you can see!! a very early 90's feel to their rock.. a trait shared by slash's gang too.. which he also carried over from Guns N' Roses.

kim (my colleague from the library) was working at the lake effect on the night shift, so mal, nats, vip n i dropped in to have double fudge chocolate cake for dessert.. and it was worth it too.. mmmm!! of course, it also helped that she gave us huge slices, and nats and vip couldn't finish theirs.. and i just happened to be in the vicinity too :-))

FEAT OF THE MONTH: vip and i were ready and out of the house even before anyone was up!! there's gotta be a medal of valour for that somewhere.. a purple heart or knighthood or something!!