Twas the Thursday before Bloodlust...
Last evening, dinner with medicinalminx, Steel(?)
and electricmercury
at the Ace Place - yes it's not just a bar, the 'pub' food is really not
so bad (although I haven't eaten my way through the entire menu as yet).
Thence home for some kittun-time (though Indy is being a pain-in-the-ass
right now and waking me up 3-4 times a night to get under the covers).
Dammit, Mandor learnt to use his head to nose under the covers... Indy
just paws at your face until you kinda wake up and push him under. Must
stop that unconscious behaviour.

I also ran into an interesting 'argument' last night with a few people.
It all had to do with Bloodlust having halved it's opening hours (from 8
hours to 4[?] hours), the perceived (by some) reduced value of the night
and so forth. I sat down and had a think - and came up with the
following:

If you buy a ticket to The Metro and see a band - for (say) $40, then
you get a 3 hour show with a support and the band you want to see. This
is a Good Thing(TM) and there is no argument. If the support band
changes, there may be some minor grumbling about the change of support,
but there's still no real argument as to the length of the show (which
wouldn't really change) or the unchanging cost. So, in comparison...
Bloodlust is a Club/Show/Performance/Happening (how 60's of me) which
has live music, a minimum of 6-8 performances, DJs etc... it is lasting
(from what I have read) from 9-1 (with the final performance starting at
midnights-ish?), and is costing $25. So, in comparison to my example, it
seems to me that in having the time halved (due to venue licensing
restrictions) people are still getting a 4 hour set of performances, and
a club, at a large venue, all for less cost than an average 3 hour show.
So, whilst not taking sides in the 'argument', I don't understand the
problem here (unless people just wanted to arrive late and are peeved
that they can't ;)) - Meh, at the end of the day, these are simply my
thoughts on the discussions of last evening. Anyway... the important
thing is - it'll be a damned good night, and that's what matters
:)

On the side of the Lenovo-saga... it appears that I get the new N200
laptop on Friday afternoon, sometimes between Midday and 4pm, which is
'nice' seeing as I will have to go back to the office from whatever
venue I am at to sign for it, unpack it, lug it back to the venue. I
mean, c'mon folks, this saga has been going on for 3 weeks now (on a
next-day on-site warranty job). Has anyone else noticed that to 'handle'
people, a lot of phone-operators instantly dismiss the problem as:
"Let's not dwell on what happened in the past, let's just solve the
issue." - in my books, this is simply not addressing the stupidity
of their (or their staff's) actions. Granted, it does focus on
solving the issue, however it just doesn't address the amount of
[insert appropriate anger-based expression here] that the
customer/client legitimately has, it simply gives the impression of 'not
caring' about the problem having existed, and appearing to marginalise
the legitimate complaint. It's being solved, I'm getting an (allegedly)
better laptop out of it, and that's a good thing.

Tonight, it's off to have a few drinks to celebrate broken_daniel's coming
of age, and thence home because of an early start tomorrow.

Weird... I emailed the folks at Xanga to tell them that their email
posting wasn't working as per the directions on their site... and I
still have no response. Pft!