Zel-kun’s Words

As is my routine when I’m getting ready to leave work, I checked the traffic report.  Within seconds, I have a traffic map of the region in front of me.  The entire length of the trip is shown in bright red, indicating severely congested traffic.  I’m not sure I’ve ever seen the traffic that bad.  So, instead of spending an eternity in a vehicle, I have decided to wait it out a bit, hopefully it’ll thin out soon.

The traffic has been spastic as of late, with a two-hour commute in the other day, with only a 40-minute trip out.  It’s not snowing or raining, nor are there any accidents reported on the road.  It’s as though everyone collectively decided they were going to clog up the freeway.  It doesn’t make sense.

Spent the day fixing old out-of-warantee laptops.  No one wants to touch them, but we’re running out of the old models, and the budget won’t allow for upgrading them, so we need to stretch the stock of this model as long as we can.  Fortunately, I’m not afraid to tear a laptop apart in hopes of fixing it.

There’s a large stack of them next to me I’ve been working on all day.  Most of them are user damage.  People spill coffee on them, pop keys off the keyboards, smash the screens, and even run them over with their cars.  So I’ve been taking the still usable parts of these laptops, and consolodating them into working models.

It’s like Frankenstein, in a way.  Which, in case you didn’t know, is pronounced ‘frahnk en steen.’

Zel-kun out.