What Next?

The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload.
And nobody's gonna go to school today,
She's going to make them stay at home.
And daddy doesn't understand it,
He always said she was as good as gold.
And he can see no reason
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown?

Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
I want to shoot
The whole day down ...

... and that's how the first part of the song 'I don't like Mondays' by the Boomtown Rats go. That song echoes what I feel right now and the only consolation is that Monday is almost over. Yes, everything that could go wrong for my Monday went absolutely wrong. I'm too stressed out and exhausted about the whole Monday so I'll just leave some short (hopefully) snippets about my 'beautiful' Monday!

9.35am
Switched on my workstation and discover that it's on an eternal restart loop! Great, just great! There goes all my work that I slogged over the past week and now I'll never see it again cos the only way to stop that eternal restart loop of my PC is to reformat the darn thing! And I had some VERY important work saved too! Back up, Nick! Back up!

11.20am
After reinstalling most of the drivers back (and we do have some propriety drivers for our large format inkjet machines), I discover that some of the drivers are corrupted (and it has to be the IMPORTANT drivers at that!). Calling the vendors doesn't get much done as they can only come tomorrow or the day after (so what do I do in the meantime? Knit?). I have deadlines to meet so I resort to downloading all the drivers which takes almost all day.

3.45pm
Finally get all the drivers up and loaded again. The printer decides to get into the picture by printing out wonderfully fuzzy images! Good god, you're not supposed to do that! You're an RM87,000 plus machine! You're not supposed to give me grief! Damn you! Damn you! Damn you!

4.22pm
The machine problem is fixed. A client calls and says he needs his T-shirts delivered by Wednesday! No problem but that was before the supplier tells me he hasn't even started production yet! Great, just great! Monday is sure getting better by the minute. Between me screaming at the supplier and my client screaming at me, I wished the earth would have opened up and swallowed me whole. The worst part is the client is a friend of mine and the event is this Friday and it happens to be taking place out of town. I don't know how I'm going to get the T-shirts delivered. I am hoping for divine intervention here ... urmmm God, are you listening to me?

4.52pm
I decide to pack it up and head for home. I can't take this any longer and if I stay in the office for one more minute, I'm afraid the building will collapse or some thugs will take the whole office hostage! Going home while there is still some semblance of hope is the best thing to do ...

... The telex machine is kept so clean
As it types to a waiting world.
And mother feels so shocked,
Father's world is rocked,
And their thoughts turn to
Their own little girl.
Sweet 16 ain't so peachy keen,
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat.
They can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown?

Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
I want to shoot
The whole day down. 
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