Slacker with an Excuse

In approximately 7 and half hours of being in work I’ve probably only done about 2 hours of actual work…

What’s the secret of my success? Windows XP Professional of course.

Yes, in a story not too dissimilar from many others, I got back from a meeting at 12 to find my PC has crashed, so the tech guy comes down and after much, and I’ll use the technical term here, jiggery-pokery he gets the machine to work… In 5 minute bursts, that’s assuming I don’t touch the mouse or keyboard because if I do, it goes down quicker than a dirty street slut.

So I goes for lunch and things are no further forward at 2pm, great… Some 2 hours later, after sitting through a reinstallation of XP, I’m now able to do stuff, but I can’t actually do any work as I’m running Windows Update to get all the patches for all those nasty viruses that’s been about recently.

I have to wait 11 more minutes for the first Service Pack update to finish, then another few hours or so for the rest of the little critical updates and what not… So now I’m kicking back, listening to the Foo Fighters rock out in Oslo, Norway, wondering why most days can’t be like this…