GLEN OR GLEN-OS
(written Feb.1, but only posted now due to being too damned sick)
January is dead and gone. And hopefully, it’ll stay dead for quite some time. The past month has been quite literally one ailment after another for me, all of them divided up amongst work, being a plague monkey and the general malaise this time of year sees. The final day proved to be no exception, as the month of January gave me two things to remember it by: a snowstorm and a flu & cold that knocked me flat on my ass.
It was one of those slow-to-sink-in colds too. I woke up with a headache, and before the afternoon was out my entire body ached like a 95 year-old’s. The ends of my hair even ached. And that boggles me. I didn’t even know hair could do that. Oh, and there was also the dry cough, severe exhaustion and digestive upheaval. (All of which is now currently getting its ass kicked by something far meaner and fouler: Buckley’s.)
But still…aching hair?!
January has officially gone from ‘downright vicious’ to ‘just plain WTF’ in its torment of me.
At this point, I’m really hoping that such a thing as karma exists, because I must certainly have gotten all the crap of 2008 out of the way by now, and all that’s left for the remaining eleven months will be peace and quiet. And maybe a winning lottery ticket. (Note to self: next time you plan on winning the lottery, buy a ticket first. It helps.)
In the meantime, today is being spend on all the backlog that’s piled up for the last week or so: lots of cleaning, dishes and Emails that should have gone out days ago if not for me trying to cough up a lung (and at one point, almost succeeding). It’s also not helping that, as I attempt to write all this, I’m having unusual trouble locating all the necessary keys. And therein lies the problem I face: my laptop, Mel’s computer (used for Emails) and my store computer all have different-sized keyboards. As a result, if I’ve been using one keyboard rather predominantly, switching to a smaller one is nothing short of aggravating.
Was that a ‘v’ you were trying for? Looks like you ended up with an ‘f’ instead. Too bad, but do try again, and perhaps this time you’ll be able to hit the space bar instead of the ‘m’ button.
And all of this pales in comparison to the chagrin I feel for having called Portal’s GladOS the rather erroneous GlenOS. Um…maybe GlenOS is GladOS’ crossdressing twin brother? Oooh, I smell a fanfic there!
Labels: GladOS not GlenOS, the evil that was January 08
posted by Phillip at 9:38 PM
