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Mixed bag, mostly good
We had a brown-out this morning while I was trying to boil and egg and make toast, and I thought: "Here we go again." Last Christmas our fridge died, and one new year our washing machine blew up (well, there was a lot of smoke). I thought the wiring here had gone. We were getting about 80 volts instead of 240 and now I know why it's a brown-out: I turned the lights on to test them and they were a strange amber. It was an area line fault and they fixed it so here I am back on the interwebs, yay.
And I have booked two weeks in Taupo in February, double-yay. Due to work, I could only go away in the first three of Feb or the first two of April, so I'm very relieved I managed to get something.
I'm about to go out to Greg's end-of-year work, and I'm slumped limp in front of the fan waiting for him to pick me up. I hope the restaurant has aircon. We had our staff lunch today at Greenfingers (they must be like buses), and my Thai chicken salad was so yummy, I'm going back there with Greg during the holidays.
And when I come home tomorrow, it will be the start of two weeks holiday. Can't wait!
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There was a time when I would make carefully precise replies to that, like "I am paid to program computers" -- to highlight the discontinuity between what is said (what do you do?) and what is meant (what do you do that someone pays you money to do?)
My favourite "small talk" conversation opener is "Read any good books lately?" which will at least work for the people who read books. Except that I can't use that unless I know they read books, and so many people nowadays don't.
Interestingly enough, if I recall correctly from what my brother said, the standard opening question in Indonesia is not "What do you do?" but "Where are you from?"
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And yes; so few people read books, and even fewer fiction, that I don't bother unless it's a friend I know reads novels.