Oppression in the Summertime

I have been meaning to post something new to my blog for a while. Lord knows that my one friend has been harassing me about it.

It isn’t like I don’t have anything to say. On the contrary, I have too much to say, too much to do, to noodle around posting on my blog. Or to take the time to share pictures of my trip from France. Yes, yes, yes, I have heard it all before.

Imagine my horror when, in addition to being Internet-free for over a month at home (long story), the Network Gestapo locked down ‘net access at the office, too!!! How will I live?

I can understand that they don’t want me surfing the web and viewing lascivious content at the office. I don’t do that anyway. But I do check my personal mail account, read the daily headlines, transfer funds from Checking to Savings, periodically monitor my 401(k) and watch streaming video of my dog at day care.

The streaming video is not the best, from a bandwidth-perspective, I get that, I really do. But the rest is really too, too much.

There have been a few people laid off in the last two days for “electronic infractions”, maybe 4 or 5 total. The only good thing about that is that there will be more boxes for the rest of us on our annual December 1st layoff party. Seeing so many people leave with boxes yesterday did make me think fondly of cooler weather. Christmas comes early to the corporate drone.

I do have hopes that the noose will eventually be loosened, but who knows?

On a positive note, BellSouth is scheduled to come out on Saturday, sometime between 8-12 to resolve my lack of dial tone and DSL service. Hopefully I will be able to post this then.

See! I am typing this into a Word doc, how archaic! Cutting and pasting might be involved. Quelle tragique, mas non? I can’t even check my French spelling on Babelfish, those bastards!

All it takes is one less “t” to go from bitter to biter…