yonmei

12:27 pm: At the moment, I'm pretty much massively resenting
Everything, from the sublime to the ridiculous...

1. Dell. Because the big laptop I got from them for work has a LAN connection that is completely disturbed: I normally don't use it to go online at home at all, because it switches back and forth between "now connected" and "a network cable is unplugged" several times a minute.

2. Hewlett-Packard. Because the neat laptop I got from them 18 months ago is in the shop being repaired for a power-connector problem, which is why I have to use my Dell POS instead.

3. Beanscene. Because if they would actually provide WiFi that, you know, worked reliably, instead of a WiFi that just hovers around the "we swear we've got it" level, I could sit in their big empty-ish cafe on Victoria Quay and work, quite happily. And buy their expensive coffee as the price of doing so. I have written to them pointing this out: they do not respond.

4. The British judicial system, which comes up with a measured response like this to a man who raped his daughters:

The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was given 25 life sentences yesterday. He will serve a minimum of 19 years and six months in prison.

He fathered nine children with his daughters, two of whom died at birth. The other 10 pregnancies were miscarried or terminated.

The British man pleaded guilty last month to 25 counts of rape, dating from the early 1980s and continuing until this year when the terrified women finally sought help. The Guardian

In what universe does raping your daughters for three decades and getting 25 life imprisonment sentences add up to a minimum of 19 years six months? In principle I believe in rehabilitation and I do not believe in the death penalty, but I also believe you can say that there are people who are too dangerous to ever be let out of jail - and someone who spent 30 years torturing his daughters, only letting up when he made them pregnant and only for the duration of their pregnancies, is such a person.

5. Childline.

The court heard that in 1988 suspicions were raised at the victims' school due to their injuries but these were blamed on bullying. One of the women was asked by a doctor if her father was the father of her children, but she denied it. The girls called Childline, the court was told, and asked for a guarantee that their children would not be taken away, but hung up when this assurance could not be given.

Tags: laptop, not drinking coffee, wanting to fire people for being stupid, wow i am self-obsessed

02:54 pm: *yawn*
Yesterday, I drank far too much coffee. I had my last cup sometime before 4pm, and decided that Wednesday was going to be a caffeine-free day.

No one's done my meme. It was a silly meme, but it made me happy. oh well.

I got chocolate and a book from afrai yesterday! But no clover seeds. Wail. Sadness. Loss. Why will no one sell me/send me clover seeds? It is very disturbing.

I am drinking caffeine-free tea. With milk. It is quite nice.

My socks got very wet this morning, and I am walking around the office barefoot. So far no one has commented, and I feel that no one may have noticed. I hate wearing damp socks.

I am tired. *yawn* It is probably best not to drink coffee for this reason.

Last night when I came back, my cats both slept on my bed. Wolf slept on my feet, or rather on my legs, and Bob was curled up by my right hand readily available for petting. Then Bob realised where Wolf was and growled and growled and moved further up the bed and curled up on the part of the duvet covering my shoulder. She wanted to make clear I was hers. It's rather sweet. Sort of.

More decaf tea, I think.

Tags: cat politics, not drinking coffee, tea