Useless by 9PM

This last week has felt strange. Ordinarily I am still pretty awake late at night, but this week has felt like such a long week, and as the title says, I have been useless by 9PM. It just hits me and all I can do is go to bed. But, tonight, none of that, so I'll catch you up on what has been happening.

So, what's been happening? Not much. I've been going to work and have been useless by 9PM.

Oh - I've been dealing, I believe, with a serial prankster at work. But the prankster has also been educating me in some regards, because I now know that the word for "printer" in German is "drucker".

Over the past 9 working days, one of the office printers has been configured to display menus in German, Swedish, French and Turkish. The first language wasn't so bad - after doing German in primary school I for some reason thought I had a decent chance of recognizing the word "Language" if I saw it. I dug through the menus and found it. The next day, Swedish, was more tricky, because I know no Swedish, but the menu option is in exactly the same spot. So, ever since then, whatever the language, it has been easy to change back: Menu key > Option 4 > Option 3 > Option 16.

The weather has been getting warmer, and it is about time. I think each day this week made it into the 40s (40F = ~4C), and tomorrow I think the forecast is for 49F! I think that's about 9C! Soon we should be hitting the double digits!

Last weekend I had some fun playing Howzat. Actually, on Saturday, I hated the game and announced my retirement from it. I had played about 5 games and lost most, if not all, of them. A profound inability to time the ball and competing against random strangers who were higher level than me made for a bad run of results. Sunday, however, I found myself with some spare time. After creating the new header, I came out of retirement and played a few more games. I only dropped one game all day, and included a 5 match winning streak! I unlocked the 5 match achievement, hat-trick achievement and at one stage even chased down my opponent's total (10) from 3 deliveries and earned the hat-trick of 4s achievement. I'm now level 5 and am ranked 6626 in the standings.

Before passing out we've been watching some TV online to wind down. Lately we have been getting into the US version of the Office. It is the type of random humor that I enjoy, so I have really liked watching it. 3 weeks ago also saw the return of The Amazing Race. There aren't as many teams this season that I like, mostly teams I despise, find generally annoying or just mock the entire episode. My favorite racers, and I'm putting all my eggs in one basket this season as far as liking teams goes, are the cowboy brothers, Jet and Cord. They're awesome - they have the cowboy voices and cowboy hats - everyone assumed they're dumb, but they've out-thought most teams so far and are hilarious to (cowboy) boot. I want to see them go all the way. One team I originally thought I would like I now just laugh at. 2 undercover detectives from Rhode Island who thought they would win every leg of the race have wheezed and spluttered their way to finishes nowhere near the front of the pack. For a team who built their careers looking for clues to catch criminals they have a real hard time working out what to do sometimes with clues that are directly given to them. Note to everyone: if ever you're the victim of crime in Rhode Island don't expect these cops to bust the case wide open. Unless it's a case of donuts - they seem really out of shape.

In a few weeks time I'll also be rejoicing with the return of The Clone Wars and South Park!

Now I'm getting sleepy - but I bettered last night's time by 2 hours!