Venting

It's only 8:40 in the morning and I'm in a bad mood already. It all started with the traffic. And there was alot of it this morning. I leave work at 7:30am and yet it still takes me 45-60 minutes to get to work. Without traffic, this journey only takes 20 minutes. And now that summer is almost here, sitting in a car with the sun beating down on you, even at that hour, is f*cken uncomfortable. Then there's the increased chance of someone's car breaking down because of the heat which will cause further traffic jams! It's a deadly cycle! From this day forward, I'm going to leave home at 7:15am.

Heard on the radio on my way to work today that the government is planning on charging those households that use more water compared to everyone else. And guess what? As I parked my car at the Macquarie Center car park and started walking to walk, I saw it. A fire hydrant hose, still rolled up, with no one around and water spewing from it!!!! Some moron has turned it on and left it there. There's a huge puddle so it's obviously been left on for quite some time and no one has bothered to turn it off. Many people walk past the hose to exit the car park at this hour. So I went and turned it off.

Got to work and as I normally do, I make myself a cup of tea. Now this normally involves putting tea bag and sugar in cup, then hot water, then the milk. Now something has been annoying me for some time now about the milk. Not so much with the content, but how the milk carton has been opened, you see, we have a shared fridge for our level and shared milk. Today the milk carton was opened ON BOTH SIDES!! What's up with that!?!?! Someone(s) on this level does not know how to open a milk carton. There are bloody instructions on the carton to tell you which side to open and yet people still can't get it right. Now lets think about this scenario. There are 3 possible ways that the milk carton can arrive at the state it is now.

1. Someone accidently opened the milk carton on the wrong side, used it and placed it back in the fridge. Then a second person comes along, and instead just using it, he/she decides to rip the other side!?!?! Maybe it's a compulsive disorder that things should be done right, but in this case, if the carton is already opened, for f*cks sake, you don't need to open the other end, even if it was the right end!!!

2. Person 1 opens the right end then moronic person 2 opens the wrong end. I see no logical or sane reason that anyone would want to do that. A person of this stupidity should not be employed.

3. Person 1 opens both sides!!!

So you see, all 3 scenarios are just plain stupidity at work. Have any of you tried pouring milk from a 1 litre carton when both sides are open?? It's bloody tricky and there is just no need for it.

So there. 3 things that have gotten me into a bad mood already. Let's see how the rest of the day pans out.

The Theory of Flight

I read an article today on the theory of lift and flight. It was certainly an enlightening experience. It's one of those moments where something that you've always taken for granted to be true, has suddenly been blown out of the water leaving you feeling cheated. This article explained that the major component attributing to lift is not the differences in pressure (aka Bernoulli Effect). Instead it's the deflecting of air downwards known as the Coanda Effect. So all these years, what I was taught in High School had all been a lie.