Blah humbug

Another Monday is over. Thank goodness.

I arrived at work to find myself with no less than Three systems crises on my hands. Me being the 'appie' DBA, and not a mentor in sight.
So I did what I could, used my best bullshitting techniques to delay what I couldn't do, and calmly waited for my backup to arrive two hours later. I was quite proud of myself for not panicking, although this probably had more to do with me being doped up on 'flu medication than any crisis management abilities I may (or may not) possess.
Watcha gonna do, eh?

My weekend alone was just what I needed to pull myself towards myself a bit. I slept deliciously late and spent my time fiddling around on the PC, printing out some photos (right up until the part when the printer upped and died), and doing a bit of reading and writing in between sneezes.
I also had a long chat on the phone with my friend in SA, and another with my sister in London, and I watched a couple of movies that I wouldn't dream of inflicting on Hubby:
Shall We Dance [who knew Richard Gere was so graceful?] and The Phantom of the Opera, which is one of my all-time favourite stories - right up there with Wuthering Heights in the Romantic Tragedy rankings.

Eesh, ppl, I'm boring myself with this post!

What I was meant to be telling you today was all the exciting news that has filtered through from Hubby and S-i-L in Venice. Well, I'll tell you all I know:

- They got there "safe & sound"
- The hotel was "lovely" and Venice "spectacular"
- I'm apparently getting a "really nice present"
- They went "on the tear" on Saturday night & ended up with "such a hangover" on Sunday.

Th-th-th-that's all, folks!

I'm assuming their lack of communication is 'cos they were having too much of a good time, not 'cos they had nothing to tell ;-)
They're due back later tonight so no doubt all will be revealed then.

And as much as I know you'd all love to hear about the rest of my exciting activities this weekend (ate, slept, stared out the window for a while), I'm not going into any more detail... I'm afraid if I do I might bore myself so much I may actually fall asleep on the keyboard.

Oh, but before I go I'd like to share with you just one piece of wisdom, because
someone sent this to me in an email recently:

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS EMAIL TRACKING. AOL WILL NOT SEND 5c TO A SOMALIAN ORPHAN, NOR WILL NOKIA SUPPLY YOU WITH A FREE PHONE IF YOU FORWARD ALL THOSE DUMB EMAILS TO ALL 300 PEOPLE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK.

Rant over.
I feel better now.
Thank you.