Yesterday when I was at the school I work at, one of the teachers told me how I wouldn’t be able to drink Coke there anymore soon. Do any of you know about this? Have you heard about this? Apparently, the bottle of Coke I was drinking at the time will become some sort of illegal substance at school, as will other fizzy drinks and chocolate. This is supposed to make kids eat healthy food intsead. The worst thing is that apparently it applies to staff aswell – probably as a way of setting an example for the kids. Well I for one say SCREW THAT!

There are a lot of places where you find a smokers corner. Well if the government enforce this rule then there’ll be a snackers corner aswell. And I know this for a fact, cos I’ll be the guy setting up the damn thing. I don’t like hot drinks, so unlike other members of staff who can get their caffeine fix through a cup of hot coffee, I need to be able to get mine through Pepsi or Coke or some other caffeinated bottle of goodness. For instance, what happens if I start feeling sleepy? Long-time readers of this site will no-doubt know that work and tiredness don’t work well for me. If I don’t have my caffeine fix or some form of sugar boost from chocolate then I might aswell just start counting sheep. Plus what of the students? Kids love to rebel and do things they’re told not to. If a kid comes to school and wants a drink, maybe they’ll have a coke, or a ribena. Depends on what they’re feeling like having. But ban their fizzy drinks and they’ll be sneaking it into school and drinking more of it cos they know they’re not allowed it. Stupid polititians.

That wasn’t the worst thing to happen at school that day though. In the morning I found that I couldn’t log onto the network from my office computer. My computer used to be in the server room until I was relocated to make room for the new technicians (aka the Men in Black). It turns out that Chris (one of the Men in Black) was trying to do some cleaning up. That dude is tidy. And I mean really tidy. It scares me and Rob (the other Man in Black). He’s totally tidied up the entire server room! This has caused a probelm which I will go into in a bit. But aswell as tidying the server room, he’s also decided to clean up the list of computers stored on our network. Now our network uses some software provided by RM – a company that provides extra software and security aimed at schools – which in English means they’re a pile of poo. There were 5 computers listed as being in the server room (not including the servers themselves) but only 2 of them were actually there. So Chris decided to remove them from RMs Management Console software (aka more poo). What he didn’t realise is that one of those computers in the list was mine, and the only way to re-add it is to rebuild the machine. This is where you can use a floppy disk to wipe the computer and let it re-install everything automatically. 1 hour later and boom – you’re back in business, no matter what the problem was. Only this time, there’s a big problem.

My computer was specially ordered so that I can do movie editing. This makes it one of a kind. This also means that RM hasn’t supplied the necessary drivers on the servers, so we need to use the restore disc included with the computer. Except since Chris has been tidying the server room, we’ve lost it. Or as my supervisor puts it – I’ve lost it. Cos I should have put it somewhere safe. But when a place is a mess – I know exactly where things are. Start tidying the sucker and you can never find anything. Technicians aren’t designed to be tidy. I’m not tidy. The only time I ever was properly tidy was when I was going out with my girlfriend and I have no idea how or why that happened. I think that maybe I might have some sort of tidying-up gene that automatically activates the second I’m in a relationship. But as this has only happened once I’m not sure yet.

Long-story short(er), I spent the ENTIRE day looking for the discs and then trying to get it on the network – which isn’t as easy as you’d think because;

1) RM are poo and make life far more difficult than it should be
2) My supervisor will only let me manually build and add it to the network if it’s done with a copy of XP with Service Pack 2. Problem is that mine was the only one which came with such a disc. Every other disc for every other computer is Service Pack 1a. (So I’m not sure if it’s RM or Microsoft which is poo here).

Anyways, on a lighter note – I’ve been driving my car and it’s been real fun. I’ve already used up over half my gas tank in 2 days. I’ve even drove to the cinema today to see The 40 Year Old Virgin, which I must say is a hilarious movie. Steve Carell (Brick from Anchorman) is on top form as always. I’m not going to go into too much detail on this one as the title is pretty self-explanitory but it’s one of the best comedies to come out in a long while! And personally, I think that one of the great things about the movie is that there’s so much in there for people to relate to. Whether you’re still a virgin, or haven’t managed to kill every braincell through drugs or alcohol and can still remember back to the time that you were a virgin – then you’ll easily relate to the character of Andy (Steve Carell). If not, then the other characters are also quite diverse so there’s something in there for everybody. It’s a very smart comedy and I hope that this is the direction that they’re moving back to – where characters aren’t 2-dimensional and the film is actually funny. It seems that since the success of American Pie, a lot of comedies (specifically teen comedies) have wanted to re-create that success by imitating the style… poorly. Simply put, we need more comedies like The 40 Year Old Virgin, Anchorman and BASEketball.

Hmm… I can’t find my script for my show anywhere. I might have to tidy my room…