stuff and random stuff

So, I've just finished a meeting with a development team about something that would probably bore you to death, and as I'm leaving the project manager calls me and says "I'd just like to have a private word".

Of course this phrase strikes fear into me and instantly makes nervous, as it would with any other normal person. However, she just wanted to praise my work and tell me how nicely I'm interacting and how good my output is. Wow, that was nice. It made me feel really good. I think it's the first time that anyone has actually puilled my aside to specifically praise me, even though I clearly deserve it. Now I know that this raises outher issues: what did she think of my work previously and was she being honest or just trying to play some kind of management mind games to make me feel good? Basically I'm not going to think about that too much, I feel good about it and that's the way it's going to stay.

Tonight I'm going to finally fix my door (the sticking has been getting worse, I almost can't close the door now). And put a new lock on the security door, the second time in like three months, and they're expensive too.

Sushi last night was so good. The service at Benkei sucked total arseburger, but eventually I was able to "eat all I could". The other place in town is just as good and the all you can eat special is cheaper.

That's the end of my news, but here is some random stuff that I found today while waiting for queries to run:
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Fuck, Sweedes are weiord

Bestiality is not illegal in Sweden. A ban on the practice was lifted in 1944, along with a ban on homosexuality.

However, a person can be found guilty of cruelty to animals if prosecutors can prove that the animal suffered physical or psychological injury.

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London: A number of wealthy clients of the smart London restaurant Zafferano clubbed together to buy one of the most expensive truffles in the world for about R300 000, but it ended up going rotten in a refrigerator. The 850gm delicacy from Tuscany was put on display at the restaurant but then the chef went on holiday after locking the truffle in the fridge and taking the keys with him. When he returned after four days, he found it had rotted, forcing the owner to throw the whole thing out.

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Guwahati, India: An army officer, Colonel H S Kohli, was dismissed and a colleague suspended after a court martial found they splashed tomato ketchup on civilians to make them look like dead separatist rebels in a bid for a gallantry medal.

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Palembang, Indonesia: A landmark bridge is in danger of collapsing because too many men are urinating on it. Surveyors have found that the Ampera bridge has started to lean at an angle and rocks slightly when traffic is heavy. Council spokesman Azmi Lakoni said: "One of its main support piers has been weakened by urine."

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London: British television watchdogs ruled that a pig that was sexually pleasured on camera did not feel degraded by the experience. In an episode of a reality TV show, the audience was treated to the sight of Rebecca Loos, the self-proclaimed ex-lover of England football captain David Beckham, stimulating the boar for 10 minutes to produce a flask of semen.

An animal charity condemned the scenes as "sordid", but the broadcasting standards body said the procedure was perfectly
normal on a farm.

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Shenyang, China: A safari park decided to celebrate the New Year and the start of the Year of the Monkey by dyeing its primates bright red and yellow. But the
monkeys refused to co-operate. "We had to anaesthetise them first," a park spokesperson said.

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A female panda named Hua Mei is pregnant after watching hours of videos showing other pandas mating. This is the latest use of so-called "panda porn" by authorities in China. So Hua Mei, aged four, was sent to the Wolong Panda Protection Centre in south-western China for several months of sex education lessons, which included watching hours of panda pornography.

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Oh and by the way womens' brains switch off durring orgasim.

"Patrick Stuart"