Annotations of an Anomaly - Snap back to reality, oh theres goes holiday

Well I've had my first day back at work & as I dreaded it wasn't fun. For the simple fact that my system refuses to run Avid Media Composer properly, even though it was fine for 2 1/2 weeks before the I.T. department re-installed my whole system. And yes I've tried turning it on & off again. Its to do with our new user system & I warned them that something like this would happen & even gave them a solution, but did they listen? Of course not!

Ive got my bandwidth back now, so at least thats a plus & catching up on the TV we missed while we were away. LJ catch-up is harder though so I'll send out the following blanket responses:

*If something awesome happened in your life recently: congratz!

*If some sad happened in your life recently: condolances.

*If something shitty happened in your life recently: then fuck those fucken fuckers!

There, I think that about covers it.


For the past 18 months the rental we live next too, theres like 5-6 guys living in the house that are scab labourers hired from overseas. That fact in itself is annoying enough as the enconomy has been tough for local aussie workers, but it isn't the thing that really shits me to tears. The worst part has been that at least every second weekend - their carport which is 2 meters from our loungeroom (ie: my sanctuary for watching movies & TV) - they use as party central & play their music & TV outside & laugh like fucking hyenas late into the night. We know the owners & they asked us to call them if there was anything wrong, but I guess they only meant if their house was burning down or some shit like that as they've done pretty much nothing to help this situation. And when the local sluts & drug dealers from up the road have joined in making the parties last longer, I'd finally had enough.

I'd actually been planning it for some weeks & when we returned from Fiji I put my plan into action. I went out & bought the smelliest bag of chicken-poo pellet fertiliser and laid it on the grass right next to their carport. And the best part was I only laid it only in front of our aircon split system exhaust, so that the smell blows directly into that area & doesn't affect us. I seemed like a good plan. I didn't realize how well it would work though.

When my wife woke early the next morning at 5am, one of them must had gone outside for a early morning smoke. The next thing she heard was hime outside hosing & scrubbing everything in sight in the immediate area. By 7am they were ALL up doing it! It pretty much contiued on like that until 10am when they gave up & decided to get out of the house for a bit. We literally were ROFL'ing. And there wasn't so much as a peep out of next door for the whole weekend. Hopefully that will continue - I'll just remember to "top up" every Thurs/Fri.

They say revenge is sweet. In my world, it just fucking stinks.

Next door: I've put up with your shit for long enough. So now you can take a deep breath of mine.