Merry Fucking Christmas

What a wonderful, magical Christmas this was, full of joy and happiness.  My day started at 4am, when I woke up in my living room chair, where I had collapsed after work the night before.  I turned all the lights off, climbed into bed, and got four hours of restless sleep before I had to wake up and come in to work.  I’ve been sitting here all day, drinking gallons of coffee, trying to stay awake.  The project sucks, it’s 8:30 at night, and I don’t think I’m getting out of here any time soon. 

On the bright side, I should be dead in 30 or 40 years.

Hey, it could have been worse. You could have been visited by three ghosts who go around showing you all the times you screwed up, after which you wake up and give away all of your hard-earned money.

Doesn’t that make you feel better?

In China Lee would be visited by the ghosts of communists past-Lenin, Stalin and Mao.

I got a nice new 24 inch 1920x1200 flat panel wide screen tv/slash monitor.  With ONE FUCKING DEAD PIXEL TWO INCHES OFF DEAD CENTER.

sigh.. knew this would happen to me

Quick update if anyone cares… I returned the monitor--twice.  Third time’s a charm apparently.  I don’t fully trust this POS, but for now it looks good and I have an extended service plan (Sam’s Club may be the one place at which such a thing is worthwhile as the price is quite reasonable).