On the way into work Triple J were giving away tickets to Rage Against the Machine if someone had a legitimate protest about a piece of machinery and submitted it to the station's blog.
One guy rang up about a squeaky garage door that his father refused to repair and which woke him up at 5.00am when he didn't need to be up until 7 . . well that doesn't rate too highly in my book. I have cockatoos that do the same. And I have a frustrating leaf blower where the choke is permanently out so DrummerBoy has arranged some ingenious silly putty remedy to make sure the mix doesn't get too rich. Plus the pump on my washing machine is tempermental and sometimes I have to stand with the hose lowered into a bucket in order to have it spin properly. Normally cantankerous machines don't bother me too much.
Today my rage was angled at a machine with whom I have a volatile relationshipo. MyPC which died last week is now hanging on by a thread until the newbie arrives in a week or so . . . it won't open the internet, crashes sporadically - I mean just restarts without so much as a 'may I', or closes Outlook if it doesn't like the sender of a particular email. So that combined with persistent web connection problems let to me talking to the very handsome (I've never met him but I'm sure he is) Rattie Mattie - by his own confession, "sweet, white and girly" . . . he made me laugh, he solved my problem and he calmed the savage breast . . .without him I may have sore knuckles and a broken screen.
He brought me from this:
To this:
6 comments:
He sounds like a fella you need to keep around - provided of course he really does have all the solutions otherwise your knuckles might start feeling tempted again! ;-)
RATM were an awesome band but they should have dropped the political left-wing commie pretext.
A Guy with solutions! I could do with one of those.
AV: Nah, he's a good boy and always available. He's a Helldesk keeper!
BrianD: Try Audio Slave if you prefer a less political slant. Left doesn't necessarily mean Commie!
Granymar: Too right, it would be much better if he was a live-in rather than a phone-up!
That's great news Baino! I just heard the not great news about young Heath Ledger's death ...
Left doesn't necessarily mean Commie!
Yes it does!!!
I almost forgot about Audio Slave! I worked with a guy who grew up with one of the members of that band.
I love Audio Slave! Now I have to dig out some of the bootlegs I have of them and rock tonight.
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