Colour Me Unproductive
Jun. 7th, 2004 01:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anigoIt's cold in my office today.
It's usually always cold, but I usually have a nice little spaceheater that keeps me toasty. But no more. There's been a directive that space heaters go against a Health and Safety policy. If you're cold... "please have a sweater or jacket in your area to make you more comfortable." I currently have three sweaters in my area - one of which is wrapped around my legs. I can see that tomorrow I'm going to need to wear my thermal sailing underwear. Seriously.
It's back to being single digits again temperature wise. Right now it's 9 celcius and drizzling.
So, I don't know if it's the cold or what. But so far today I've:
Had coffee with the counsellors
Cleaned up my MSN Address Book
Surfed info about the Transat race*
Had more coffee with the counsellors
Watered my plants
Eaten my lunch
Had more coffee with the counsellors
Gone to the washroom about 50 times
*The Transat race is a solo England to Boston race. Search and Rescue crews have just picked up a Swiss sailor whose boat has capsized. The keel had broken away from the rest of the boat and it just plain tipped over. Damn, I hate when that happens.
And from another boat: Open 60s have twin rudders and for reasons of safety PRB's have a kick-up system that maintains the integrity of the rudders in the event of a collision. Riou says that he was below when he felt the rudder collide with a submerged object. The rudder kicked up as it was designed to but with no steerage, the boat bore away, gybed and was laid flat. This occurred so violently that the mast was broken. As he attempted to cut away the rig the boom was violently hammering on the deck and Riou was obliged to let this go over the side too. He is thus left with no spars with which to erect a jury rig.
Sadly, this stuff excites the hell out of me.
It's usually always cold, but I usually have a nice little spaceheater that keeps me toasty. But no more. There's been a directive that space heaters go against a Health and Safety policy. If you're cold... "please have a sweater or jacket in your area to make you more comfortable." I currently have three sweaters in my area - one of which is wrapped around my legs. I can see that tomorrow I'm going to need to wear my thermal sailing underwear. Seriously.
It's back to being single digits again temperature wise. Right now it's 9 celcius and drizzling.
So, I don't know if it's the cold or what. But so far today I've:
Had coffee with the counsellors
Cleaned up my MSN Address Book
Surfed info about the Transat race*
Had more coffee with the counsellors
Watered my plants
Eaten my lunch
Had more coffee with the counsellors
Gone to the washroom about 50 times
*The Transat race is a solo England to Boston race. Search and Rescue crews have just picked up a Swiss sailor whose boat has capsized. The keel had broken away from the rest of the boat and it just plain tipped over. Damn, I hate when that happens.
And from another boat: Open 60s have twin rudders and for reasons of safety PRB's have a kick-up system that maintains the integrity of the rudders in the event of a collision. Riou says that he was below when he felt the rudder collide with a submerged object. The rudder kicked up as it was designed to but with no steerage, the boat bore away, gybed and was laid flat. This occurred so violently that the mast was broken. As he attempted to cut away the rig the boom was violently hammering on the deck and Riou was obliged to let this go over the side too. He is thus left with no spars with which to erect a jury rig.
Sadly, this stuff excites the hell out of me.