If work is getting you down and you are feeling a bit stressed give this a go. (Flash required).

Well it has been an exciting couple of days if not exceptionally busy. I finally got to see the finished product of a project that I had been working on for months. Of course my satisfaction and sense of achievement is only matched by the pure apathy of the users who will actually use the new system that I have set up without actually understanding the logistics of it. Without boring you with details (although if you have read this far you probably have a high boredom threshold) I managed to get the Hawthorne and Balmoral cinemas linked through a wireless network even though they are about 1.5klms apart. Lots of planning, a couple of aerials and some wireless base stations later and voila! the thing works nicely.

Combine uni with having to spend a lot of time at the cinemas made for a very busy (half) week, so much so that I got home on Tuesday night and was feeling glad it was Friday, much to my dismay and the majority of workers around the nation this was in fact a figment of my imagination.

With all this work you think my brain would be occupied, but being blessed with the enormous intellect that I have (so much so that occasional things that I do may seem exceptionally moronic but are really devious and evil plans), I am not satisfied with a big work week. So what wonderful things does my brain construct (other than devious and evil plans) to fill in the void? Well what about this:

Having a car with central locking (preceded by one without) has made me realise exactly how useful this invention is. Because my enormous intellect is balanced by an enormous laziness (I still maintain it is the only thing that stops me from ruling the world), I carry all my stuff from the car in one go - even if it is a ridiculous amount that one man shouldn’t have to carry. Central locking makes this so easy - one fumbled click of the remote and BAM! the car is locked, much better than locking with a key or holding the handle up. (Have you noticed a rather large number of brackets in this entry?) But here’s the problem, I get to the front door and… I have to dump the enormous load of crap that I have been carrying (please take the preceding sentence in context) to use a key to unlock the front door, then pick it up again, balance it all, etc etc *very annoying* etc etc. Well why not this: Central Locking for Houses? A small remote that unlocks the front door, without the need for a key. No fumbling, no dropping stuff. Think about it - if you don’t agree that it is brilliant than think harder. Am I a genius or what?

(Yes Dean, I know this entry is long, I can’t help my mental diarrhoea).

- Leyton

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