Thursday, 15 January 2009

Aduatuza

What can be said about this week? What can I tell you? well let's start at the beginning. Monday is a good place to begin I guess. We had a site meeting that lasted for two and a half hours and the main achievement of it was that we sorted out who would be washing up the cups at the end of each day. We then carried on with the work in Area C, i.e. cleaning off more dumping layers. We also had a new addition to the team in the shape of a fish bone expert. I can't remember what the real name for fish bone experts is or be bothered to look it up. Do it yourself if you're that way inclined. It's your life that you're wasting, not mine. Anyhoo, she now wants the entire tent sampling for fish bone. I told Vala I'd do the fish bone report;

'Small Fish: 134678 fragments.
Medium Fish: 467890 Fragments
Big Fish: 123314 Fragments.

Conclusion: People in the old days ate fish in Reykjavik.'

That'll be 50,000 Kroner please. Can I have it in Dollars though, it's a much more stable currency? Thanks.

Atli came over on Monday night for a game or two of Memoir 44, the game I bought a while back. I told him 'It's easy to learn, any idiot will be able to play it, so you should have no problem.' My over confidence was my weakness, he was such an idiot he beat me three times to nothing.

Tuesday passed with no incident to speak of. Actually it was so incidental that I don't remember anything that happened at all. No, a complete blank. Wednesday evening was passed with me cooking a Mexican meal for Roz and Duncan as they had cooked for me on Sunday evening (A lovely vegetable stew. Om nom nom.)

I awoke this morning with my back locked up, I must have slept funny on it as I could hardly move at all. I took the day off work to get the back back in order [sic]. It happened before when I was living in Dublin, it passes soon, but is another symptom of this fucking job that I call a career.

4 comments:

Danny said...

I typed "Fish Bone Expert" into Google to see what the official term is.

It came up with......your blog.

Rubbish.

I've just realised why not many people regularly comment on your blog.
Maybe it's something to do with the ridiculous procedure you have to go through just to get the comment published!
E-Mail Address, password, choose your identity, word verification.....

Get it sorted, Sotheran, some of us have jobs to go to.

Unknown said...

This is a career?

I thought you were just on a ten-year binge.

Mrs. Lily-Plum Roth said...

My dear Mr. Sotheran,

I can't concentrate properly on the minutiae of your quotidian life. I am still furious about my tea package signally failing to arrive. I was counting on the Yorkshire Tea to give you a reason for living, despite your bleak existence.

Mrs. Lily Roth

Abwehrschlacht said...

I´m sorry Danny, I don´t know how to reset it so you don´t have to do the stupid word verification. If any one knows, let me know.