Wednesday 30 June 1999

Today the shops are preparing for Trade Day tomorrow. The first Thursday in July, people go crazy in Kristiansand. The shops are selling stuff that they could not get rid of otherwise, and they are selling it cheap. This means if you want to get to any place in town, you have to plow your way through a tightly packed crowd of chubby middle-aged women from the suburbs and the rural surrounds, who have come to buy stuff they don't need, just because it is cheap. I look forward to it. It is fun to see them fight over rags. Plus, they are sort of soft and squelchy. Today we had a cable guy at work, starting to prepare the computer room for the new server we'll install on July 7-8. The rack is getting rather crowded. I asked if we couldn't get a new rack and I could take the old one home. It is about my height, lightweight metal. Now that would be an item sure to attract attention in any home. The other two members of the computer triumvirate decided to make more room in the computer room by removing old obsolete cables, toner cartridges and other garbage. So now these things are neatly lined up in the corridor outside the computer room. I suspect that the cleaners will have opinions about this. It is of course only temporary storage. On the other hand, or rather in the other corridor, we have temporarily stored stuff since last year, or was it the year before that? My workplace is starting to look like my home. I admit that I've been writing quite a bit about diaries lately, mine and others. This too will pass, I guess, like my other innumerable fads. It's just that moving into Open Pages and the [journals] mailing list is quite an event for me, not too unlike moving into a new neighborhood. There are new places to see, new people to meet.

Workplace music of the day: Fiebre de amor by Andes. ... Last day of the month is bill paying day! Y'know, if I had enough different credit cards I could probably use one to pay the other and so on for the rest of my life. ... Missed a floppy with collected personal daydreams today. Thought I had put it in the bag, but turned out I had left it at home. Whew!