Death, Taxes, and computer technicians

It's Friday again! At least this week I can enjoy a nice relaxing day of nothing. Good news is that I have a new book (so no sleeping for Marcus!). It is the 3rd book in the Emporer series by Conn Iggulden. The series chronicles the life of Julius Caesar. I have read tons of stuff in the last 5 years about Caesar and these books are thus far the most captivating and true to life books out there. I have become addicted to books, movies, and the history of Rome. I can't wait until someone realizes just how well written these books are and turns them into a set of movies. I heard somewhere online that they have already signed the rights over to some company that I have never heard to do a movie if one is ever done.

Speaking of movies...I went to see Batman Begins last night (YAY for student discounts!). I really enjoyed the movie. It started kind of slow but so do a lot of the movies. I really thought, at first, that it was going to be one big continuous montage of the stuff that we already knew,but they really worked to flesh out the plot. I was worried about how bad they would mess up the story line with this one being a prequel, but suprisingly they did an amazing job. They even added in a final scene that shows him moving onto conquering the joker (which was the first villian in the movies) If you are a fan of Batman movies then I strongly suggest that you see this one.

There is an old saying that everyone has probably heard at one time or another "The only things certain in life are death and taxes." Well I am going to start a petition to officially add something to that line. I would like it to read something like this: " The only things certain in life are death, taxes, and that computer tech guys will lie and screw stuff up!" I have had a brand new computer sitting in my office for almost 4 weeks now. It is still in the box waiting on a technician to come set it up and put it on the network. Now IF ITS was not so over protective of their precious network (which never works right by the way) I could have set the machine up the first day that it came in. No instead I have to sit here without a computer waiting for him to decided to come do his job. I got tired of waiting. I went to my other office (newsroom) and "borrowed" one of those machines. Now all of the data is on the other machine but at least I can do things like check my email and waste time writing in my blog. WOW I feel much more productive already! This is a never ending project with our techie. He is the worst I have ever dealt with. I have thousands of dollars worth of equipment that is sitting around serving as my new paper weight! I mean its great!! So to make a long story short I think that computer tech guys rank right up there with death and taxes. It is something we all have to deal with at one time or another in our lives and most of had rather contract some sort of horrible communicable disease that do it.