Gareth Snodgrass Makes For a Difficult Day

I don't think I've ever told you about my G6, Gareth Snodgrass have I?  Well, he's the team leader of the 'Getting Government Digital' scheme and as a result, works all of the hour God sends.  He was so busy that, if rumour serves me right, his wife and children left him and he didn't realise for ten days because he was plugged into his laptop/smartphone/BlackBerry and only logged off to sleep his usual three hours per night.  Don't get me wrong, I've no doubt that there are loads of 'Gareth Snodgrasses' out there ensuring that the wheels of industry keep turning when the rest of us clock off, but woe betide if you're say, in mourning or something?

Snodgrass always starts the day off with a ten minute brainstorming session entitled 'Snodgrass Says' where he'll boil the day's headlines into a rap and expect the team to provide backing vocals.  Usually I try and hide at the back, but he was in vociferous form today and said "Margaret, I do understand that things are tough at the moment, but not knowing that Poundland took over the 99p Stores recently is pretty unforgivable in my eyes."  Fine, if you like that kind of thing, but sometimes devotion to duty goes too far.

In the afternoon, to get some peace, I wandered into the Tranquility Room, but unfortunately encountered a slumbering security guard there.  After asking him to leave I sat in the corner and grieved quietly, only to be pestered by somebody else trying to work in there.  I shall write to the Building Manager tomorrow.  

Life Goes On

So the song by the seminal 'Noah and The Whale' states anyway.  Actually, I have a bone to pick - why is the US-based indie rock band lumping the biblical Noah in with the Whale?  Surely it was 'Jonah and The Whale' although my many years of sitting through indeterminate Sunday School lessons, such was my life.

I'm back at work....this provides stability, if little else at the moment.