The Great Ink Shortage of 1807 & You're Fired!

I'd like to kick off with a farewell to one of my favourite American racehorses in recent years, 2006 Argentina Triple Crown Winner, 2006 Breeders Cup Classic victor & 2007 Dubai World Cup hero & Horse of the Year 2006, Invasor (above) who was retired on Saturday with an injury to his right hind sesamoid bone - basically his ankle. Good luck in your new career as a stallion & I can't wait to see his babies on the track.

Back to our world & things reached crisis point in our little buble of joy & happiness otherwise known as the workplace. First out printers are running dry & J simply refuses to believe me when I tell her the only printer (we all have different models - don't ask) that has a million spare cartridges is her own. Funny that. She uses her printer the least yet has a plentiful supply of ink.

This event has been brewing for the past two weeks & we aren't allowed to rectify our piss poor situation ourselves as JK offered to do an ink run - all marine style al la Jake Gyllenhaal's battery run in Jarhead, purely for my benefit! - but got shot down before he even made it to his car. Yeah JK real useful! So we are now using the situation as an excuse to do no work.

To cut a long story short, D has left us citing its two stressful working here. Pft. She should have been in this morning when I was all alone & not one but TWO phones were ringing relentlessly. As good as I am, even I can't answer them both at once! Anyway we may be getting a new modern apprentice person (they could be male or female, we aren't bothered) in the next few weeks. Yeah like when J & E are on holiday so Im left alone with them, tearing my hair out at their incompetence. Its bad enough keeping the place together on my own but when I have to watch over a useless apprentice it makes it twice as hard going. I don't know how Sir Alan manages it! On the plus side J is acting all concerned in case I up & leave too. Hehe.

Ciao for now

TJ