Holy crap - I persevered and worked out why I can select multiple terms in some categories but not others. So now I can have two types of adventure in the one post!

I was in a shitty, narky mood today. More so than usual, and more than yesterday. Then someone in another department, who I formerly rated as 'nice', they turned! Really properly turned like I wondered if it was rabies and refused to communicate by phone for the rest of the day. And mentioned the thoroughness of their turning to multiple people. It was that nasty.

My neurological state has been appalling, and the world should just be thankful that I am struggling bravely through all this unnecessary typing.

G'Dad had a shout at me about how totally non-deaf he is. I actually thought it was half funny. Also, the phone rang shortly after, and I could hear the other person up the other side of the house. So for a non hearing impaired person he has odd ideas about volume. I refer to his preferred volume settings as "deaf". And just now he was going through his strange dish washing routine. It involves boiling the kettle because he won't allow a decent HOT water setting. We have cold and lukewarm. Anyway - an eighty something year old guy is holding a kettle full of boiling water. I know the kettle leaks when full. He has has back turned, and is blocking access to the bin I want to put a used tea-bag in. So I wait for him to finish. On finishing, he notices me - and has a shout about "why didn't you say you needed to get to the bin?!". The answer was more or less "That would be because you had a kettle filled with boiling hot water which you were obviously doing something with, whereas I had a tea-bag, and it seems kind of obvious which one a sensible person would say is the more urgent task". End argument for once!

Chick who is handing over large client had mild hissy fit this morning, so I told her to just do whatever she reckoned. I think she was proud of what she had done, because she forwarded the results to me. Wondering if I should bother explaining that we look silly asking a client if they have paid something, when I was trying to show her that it takes around 30 seconds to get all the detail that she emailed the client to send. Client is going well otherwise. People there seem nice enough, they love that I can help with stuff and see that as part of my mission. Account manager is amazed by the fact that I can run various reports and send her things I stumble across that could be "intel". Our guys like that I understand the concept of "remittance advice" and send it to them rather than thinking that magical fairies know what invoices the client is giving us the money for.

And there was a surreal meeting with IT, where they basically established that since this one IT guy left real sudden... we have no-one who knows how we invoice $6,000,000 odd a month. My role at that meeting was to freely admit I have been ringing client to say I want to help, I have no clue how it all works, but if they can help me - I will get there. I offered to ring client and ask for anything they know about the custom invoice set up. No one wants me to do that. Then I had to stealthily convey that hand-over and Co have no clue. About anything. I interrupted Hand-over's process explanation with stuff that is probably critical if we want to move out of "magical fairies send the invoice file" territory. I showed off my new mastery of client terms, which I struggled to pick up as fast as possible, by interpreting acronyms for IT. So Hand-over would say something mysterious, and... five? nerds would look at me. Would have been funny if it didn't run so late.

But I seem to be running into language barriers with client's Chinese and Indian sites. Still - they seem very keen, just poorly expressed in English. Also they send me spreadsheets with awesome information - once I work out how to kill the Chinese character sets.

My CD arrived today! So I bought 4 (order inclusive) because it was a new shipment. I like to coincide with shipments, because the guy just flicks through and shows me likely candidates. I get to stand there and go "Yep, yep, maybe next time, nah, nup, never heard of them, YES!, nup." and spend my money in a few minutes. Today he also had some good DVDs, which I don't usually dabble with. Then we worked out that we were at the same gigs late eighties / early nineties.

Today's buys are:
Destroid - Loudspeaker (forget why I ordered, except that I wanted it very badly)
Compilation - Gothic Compilation Part 40, and Awake The Machines Vol 6 (looks very good indeed)
Neubauten - The Jewels (my YES!)
DVDs are:
Neubauten - Seele Brennt
Sisters Of Mercy - In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
Fall - A Touch Sensitive (live)

Yaay!

There's all this other stuff I've been meaning to post, but I only ever think of it on the train.

Neurologist got moved forward by my GP to a couple of weeks hence.