I am tactless. So I just come out and say whatever, then stop while I try to work out why people are laughing.

At work, we are the "skeletal staff", but I didn't have the heart to point out to the writer why that was a bit funny. I had to be in just to do the Client From Hell crap. Invoice day was 25 December. Unrelatedly - if certain things aren't done right in 2010, my Birthday is the day everything breaks.

Guy from other room comes in to see when we all plan on leaving, so we can work out alarms and locking up. And - here is one reason why I shouldn't be in charge of people (aside from the fact that I hate it) - my reaction is to decide that we all need to leave in an orderly fashion with times we can know and work to. So I point at Benjiguy and announce "You'll leave when I instruct you to.". I just thought that was an easy person to work out, because I can tell them what to do. I would have moved on to work through everyone else, but there was all this laughing.

I went and bought CDs. I was only going to get a few, then there were all these good looking compilations.
Solitary Experiments - Final Approach (Totally Recharged)
Accessory - Forever And Beyond
Stabbing Westward - Stabbing Westward and Darkest Days
Stranglers - Suite XVI and Rattus Norvegicus
Compilations - Extreme Lustleider 2
- Edndzeit Bunkertracks (Act III)
- Advanced Electronics Vol. 7
- Extreme Südenfall 7

Stabbing Westward - got 2 secondhand because while I was wondering why the fuck I got the totally awful Seelenblut thing... I realised I picked it up by accident as it was next to Stabbing Westward. Stranglers I got 2 because the other place didn't have the discs to go in the box set.

And I have vouched for the Extreme compilations to CD Store Guy. They are bands neither of us have heard of... but first one I got was very good. I didn't mention that when I ripped it I noticed that every single song title was explicit. Then I noticed that there was a booklet that was mild porn. I have no doubt that the others will be the same. Also - I think this will tip me over an edge where the German vocabulary that I hear most often will be naughty. Although... alot of the naughtiness will be context driven. I noticed that the fairy tales in German I have since lost, I understand basic words, plus anything about naughty girls and or boys.

We also had a chat starting with the Stranglers. I mentioned this old Hope And Anchor live compilation album, and it turns out he was a part of that "scene" and knew the pub. He was also absolutely unsurprised about Dire Straits being on there. We ended up passing through Hawkwind and onto Pink Floyd. Very strange.

Store today had lots of punkesque types in it - most people I have ever seen in there.

I had such n awesome headache last night! I took more painkillers than is sensible, and had to go in to work anyway to do... work. On the way home I assessed the guy serving at the pharmacy as 1) an actual pharmacist, and 2) helpful. So I asked him whether painkillers that say they target certain pain really do, because I thought that was a crock. I was given a very helpful and satisfactory answer involving 'binding agents' Guy seemed pleasantly surprised that I differentiate between migraine, and pain that bad but not a real migraine. Last night was just pain that bad, that woke me up and wouldn't succumb to pills.

Benjiguy's tabs have arrived, so if I can deliver them tomorrow he can be awestruck by the turnaround time for something he's wanted desperately for over ten years.

Also - Benjiguy (poor bugger, I know) is fascinated with time travel. I sent him a nice photoshop deal with the Back To The Future car (he also loves those movies) being uncovered in an archealogical dig. Anyway, he said that Einstein "proved time travel was possible", and coped well with my 'pig's arse he did' reaction. We have had enough conversations now that he paused, then didn't get distressed when I banged on about Einstein not ever doing anything beyond the math. Maths is great, but it isn't always proof.