Diary of an up and coming sociopath

At work, I’ve come to realise we represent a well-oiled machine, spread across international borders. I’ve also realised that when a computer in france breaks down, it means I spend 4 hours on my ass waiting for them to fix it so that I can do what I’m being paid to. My abilities are severely limited without the backoffice. In fact, I was seconds away from just requesting the second half of the day off when the backoffice came back up. I think I managed about 3-4 hours work, between 12:30 and 4:30. Amsuingly, it had the good sense to only work at the point where I was supposed to be on a lunch break, but after 3 hours of doing nothing, I was almost begging for something to do.

In the mean time, I did buy myself some transformers stuff from the newly discovered Play Asia, the Japanese version of all our favourite DVD sites, Play and Play USA. Of course, I got two randomly packed transformers PVC standups, only to discover that I had given myself a two in five chance of buying a suspiciously naked child toy(bottom left.) Oh, those wacky japanese. quite what compelled them to put a naked version of a preteen computer program from one of the shittier transformers serieses in a set that otherwise consists entirely of stuff from the decent (G1) series is beyond me. Quite how I’m going to explain that one to the customs officer is an entirely different worry. Naturally, I’m hoping for a Convoy and Devastar (Optimus Prime and Devastator, to us westerners) hell, I’d enjoy a Rumble and Frenzy set, but it concerns me that, what with them being randomly packed, I’m quite likely to end up with one, if not two TAIs (TAI being the naked child’s name). I guess I’ll find out in a week or two.

The amount of times I’ve typed the word “naked” and the word “child” makes me worry for the types of searches I’m going to draw to this site. Might have to go back and change those words if I begin to draw in unsavory types.

Yesterday, I spent no money. Score one for me. Today, I bought the transformer things, and a can of fanta at work. I don’t have the exact conversion on the transformers thing, since I bought in US Dollars, but I have calculated a rough value, so I’ll amend it if I turn out to be wrong.

Fanta: £0.50
Transformers Figurines: £7.35
Today’s Total: £7.85
Cumulative Total: £45.19

Hmm. I’m sending the need for accompanying spreadsheets and graphs, and I’m only 3 days in. I’ll try and hold off for now, but by the end of the month I’ll probably have a powerpoint presentation to download…