blow, wind, and crack your cheeks

Feeling much better today. And not at all disappointed about not having an excuse to call in ill, no, of course not.

For the record, I did not get blown away today. There were some accidents due to high winds, and a number of trains cancelled, resulting in those coworkers who travelled by them leaving early in order to get what was running, but nothing too dramatic right on top of us. Though I will note that it was not a good day for us to get the fire alarm that we got, and all have to go trooping outside to stand around in the wind and rain.

There's some speculation about what the weather's going to be like tomorrow, and what the trains will be doing. One coworker, who's due to go down to London for a meeting, was preparing with great fortitude for the possibility that she might be stuck in London overnight and forced to be in London on Saturday. (Don't laugh. Another coworker who was in London today did get stuck there tonight, and hotel arrangements were being hastily made as I left.)

Side note: the current ads for Domino's Pizza on television are intensely annoying, because there isn't a Domino's within delivery range of where I live. Feh. Not that I necessarily would order it, or order lots of it, but having them constantly trumpeting it in a tantalising manner irks me.

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An Infinite Number of Monkeys

After all the Shakespeare, the book
of poems they type is the saddest
in history.

But before they can finish it,
they have to wait for that Someone
who is always

looking to look away. Only then
can they strike the million
keys that spell

humiliation and grief, which are
the great subjects of Monkey
Literature

and not, as some people still
believe, the banana
and the tire.

-- Ronald Koertge