almost as important as chocolate sprinkles

Going to be early ≠ getting to sleep early, because the Tezmobile likes to run around. She was being particularly destructive last night.

I'm suggesting to Liz that she should pursue a career in bread artisanship...

Am too lazy to complete memes I've been tagged for, sorry. I am also not filling in any Christmas card posts, because I never remember to send them and therefore don't want to request any.

Reading the most recent fryblog reminded me how I dislike the word "presently". Not that I have hatred for it, but I don't like to use it and twitch when people use it. It's because the word has two meanings, one being "currently", the other being "soon", which makes a sentence with this word in rather confusing and ambiguous, if you asked me. Why not use another word, the meaning will be much clearer.

Also, people should learn the difference between "in a moment" and "momentarily", as well as "instantly", "instantaneously" and "in an instant".

I'll write about more intelligent things, one day...

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Renji from TroikaAU is the personification of zen. And perfection. And utter coolness. And the cracking of random jokes. I've written fuck-all today but it's all in my head and he's funnily zen. Or zennily funny. I heart him already, even though really Sanada is the main character of this story. (Random: according to Client from a local government I bumped into today, "fuck-all" is French.)

One thing I've realised. If you've been on my flist for a year or so, you'd know my problem with car sickness and the whole "sopite syndrome". I haven't had it for a while, and there was no sign of it when sitting in my dad's car back in August and October. But recently there has been a lot of sitting in my boss's car to get to meetings, and I've realised, well, the quality of the ride really counts. My boss isn't a bad driver, but there is a lot more acceleration/deceleration, which makes me feel like crap. It's been almost five hours since I got out of his car this afternoon, and I'm still feeling really, really icky.

I really want to write, now, but my head's trying to prevent me from doing so. Sadness.

But I ♥ you guys. Keep talking about writing!

Ah, on a completely unrelated note, this is not specifically about the loss of personal data that's on breaking news right now, but I'm always a bit uncomfortable with government ministers resigning over a human error that happened very far down the chain and really very possibly is out of their control. People are always so quick to look for blame, to exploit chances to hurt the opposition party, when they have no way to guarantee that the same thing wouldn't have happened to them if they'd been in power.

Resigning seems an easy way out, really, because these ministers can easily come back with a different job title. But it's the hole it leaves when that person is needed the most, at a time of crisis. And how far can you chase the blame? If a gap year student finds work at a local government office, and whilst sending something out, forgot to follow the procedure, is it his fault, his line manager's fault, or the fault of the head of that local government? Does sacking/forcing someone from a senior position to resign make anything better? Does the one human error (you know you've once tried to send a letter out and forgot the stamp, come on) mean the whole system is in danger? That OMG, nobody in that whole department can be trusted anymore?

Of course, there are cases where someone high up is to blame because they hadn't followed procedures themselves, or hadn't implemented a system that they should adhere to. But I'm just not comfortable with people jumping up and down and calling for resignation the first moment anything goes wrong, regardless of the nature of the error. It's a very dangerous thing.

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Link from scribblemoose:

Akaya looks disturbingly comfortable in the elf outfit.