Hello again

Well, it's been a shitty day so far, arguments with both my boss and my insurance company; I'll be lucky if I win either, frankly. The argument with my boss is one of those clear cut "I know it says you get that allowance in the company guide book but you can't have it for no real given reason other than I don't want to sign the cheque" sort of deals that we're all used to. The insurance company is another matter. What a bunch of first grade arseholes that lot are. I get robbed (Last August) they make an offer (1/2 what I claimed) last month. I'm ready to accept, because life's too short and I may have slightly overstated the value of the camera equipment (a bit) and then they send me a letter saying they want receipts from the replacement items before they will pay out the cash. WTF is that all about then? For the first insurance claim (which has STILL not been settled) they claimed that because we had no purchase receipts for Andrea's family jewelry, they would offer only 50% of the stated value. Family heirlooms, for god's sake; Oh, I know I'll just go and have Grandma exhumed so I can see if she's got the receipt from her engagement ring in her pocket. No, that won't work, the old dear was cremated. Never mind, couldn't have been worth much in the first place then. After much chomping at the bit and swearing under my breath over the phone they settled on 70%.

I tell you what, these monkeys push you so hard that the only way to get a fair shake is by defrauding them (yes I mean the insurance company AND my employers.)

All stress, no alcohol, what a shitty middle to the week.

On the upside, just finished an excellent lamb curry for lunch; threw it at the bin, missed and covered all my singapore correspondence in sauce and rice. Smart.

Elsewhere and the Guardian reports on some books put on the internet in the British library, notable 'cause they're, like, really, like OLD. So old, in fact that none of them are even in bloody English. No 'kin use at all, frankly. AND someone nicked the helicopter page out of Leonardo's notebook, plau the DIAMOND SUTRA, which is claimed to be the oldest book in the world and with a name like that shuold be porn, is some sort of detective story or something. Anyway it's in Chinese so who cares.

10 minutes of lunch left and playing Backgammon with a bunch of 1s and 0s appeals more than talking to you lot

Bomber out