Bright light city...

Not updated here in ages, will try and make updates a bit more frequent from here on out. And most of y'all will probably have stopped checking the damn thing. Unless you've got RSS enabled or other such technical wizardry.

Aaaaaanyway. Was taking a particularly hellish call in work today, an informant. If someone calls in to snitch that someone's not paying their tax, we have to note all the details they tell us and pass it up the food chain. Which meant that I had the delights of 37 minutes of noting down the oft-repeated assertions of our caller that the gentleman of foreign descent that she was reporting was probably not declaring his income.

She had no actual evidence for this claim, of course, beyond her convictions that "These people come into our country, use the facilities, and don't contribute. They should just go home". And I had to sit there, and listen, and note it down, and listen some more, and waste some poor sucker of a compliance officer's time with this crap. I hate the public at times.

Back to the point, however. While doing all this, I realised how fed up I was. So I checked the leave calendar, right around the peak time for the self-assessment deadline. And it was green, so the chances of me getting that time off are pretty good. Will request it off tomorrow, and then I should be set for a proper holiday, my first in 4 years. All going to plan, I'll be goin' back to Vegas! I'm more psyched for this than I have been for anything in quite some time. So fingers crossed that it doesn't go tits up.

Oh yeah, and you should all watch The Wire, which I've only just discovered and is excellent.