Wednesday, February 18, 2004
World of Concrete - Day 2
Today is different than yesterday. Today everyone is tired, myself included. Much coffee has been consumed to no avail. It is difficult to write now because I'm still tired, 15 hours after I got up.
People are starting to get delirious from being in a giant room with dangerous machines. This leads to loss of inhibitions. I was able to sit and converse with concrete professionals about my almost total lack of knowledge of the concrete industry for relatively long periods of time without deterring them from buying software. After a while these people, usually owners of large concrete companies, would end up admitting that they really don't know what any of the strange machinery in the building is either. They would also tell me about how they know nothing about computers. I usually respond to that statement with something along the lines of "yea, I wouldn't worry about that, computers suck" but today I could say things like "I don't know anything about computers either" and they would still buy software.
The delirium and loss of inhibitions also leads to reckless behavior. People seemed to want to walk directly into me every time I left the booth, and I did a lot of walking to the smoking area. People also liked to cut in line today. It reminded me a bad day in second grade. Except that there is dangerous machinery around.
The "Extremely Bright Lights Corp" in the booth next ours continued to bombard us with deadly rays of super-light. Their deadly Light Robot would immediately target us on request of a demonstration of it's powers. My boss, who I have yet to describe in detail, would become infuriated and began bellowing insults at the evil light machine and it's caretakers. They pretended not to hear, which may be due to a different "extremely loud sound" machine that I suspect they may also sell.
I was unable to get photos for you today. I apologize. Tomorrow night.
I want to thank you all for your support during this difficult trial. Dan wrote in to remind me not to wear loose fitting clothing or the machines will "rip my fucking arm off." He also asked how the humidity is. I would have to characterize it as "mild."
More to come. Stay tuned.
People are starting to get delirious from being in a giant room with dangerous machines. This leads to loss of inhibitions. I was able to sit and converse with concrete professionals about my almost total lack of knowledge of the concrete industry for relatively long periods of time without deterring them from buying software. After a while these people, usually owners of large concrete companies, would end up admitting that they really don't know what any of the strange machinery in the building is either. They would also tell me about how they know nothing about computers. I usually respond to that statement with something along the lines of "yea, I wouldn't worry about that, computers suck" but today I could say things like "I don't know anything about computers either" and they would still buy software.
The delirium and loss of inhibitions also leads to reckless behavior. People seemed to want to walk directly into me every time I left the booth, and I did a lot of walking to the smoking area. People also liked to cut in line today. It reminded me a bad day in second grade. Except that there is dangerous machinery around.
The "Extremely Bright Lights Corp" in the booth next ours continued to bombard us with deadly rays of super-light. Their deadly Light Robot would immediately target us on request of a demonstration of it's powers. My boss, who I have yet to describe in detail, would become infuriated and began bellowing insults at the evil light machine and it's caretakers. They pretended not to hear, which may be due to a different "extremely loud sound" machine that I suspect they may also sell.
I was unable to get photos for you today. I apologize. Tomorrow night.
I want to thank you all for your support during this difficult trial. Dan wrote in to remind me not to wear loose fitting clothing or the machines will "rip my fucking arm off." He also asked how the humidity is. I would have to characterize it as "mild."
More to come. Stay tuned.
