siggimus finds himself increasingly positioned in what has come to be known in icelandic as cucumber season. this is when little or nothing takes place that is actually newsworthy, & the media resort to inventing innocent little bits of news<\/p>\n
alas, siggimus is unfamiliar or uncomfortable with this sort of filler. if nothing of consequence happens, nothing is written in the siggimus chronicles. hence the silence<\/p>\n
this is not to say that siggimus sits idly by<\/p>\n
no, quite the opposite! siggimus has been working like a tiny but busy little ant, updating & fixing web siggimus, giving it a few additions before entering it into a huge personal webpage competition which he is sure to win<\/p>\n
siggimus pities his competition. all 300 of them<\/p>\n
mayhap this cucumber season is connected to the intended number of this newsletter?<\/p>\n
the number betwixt 12 & 14 has in common folk lore often been attributed to bad luck, or at least serious lack of good luck<\/p>\n
bah! humbug! siggimus doesn’t get himself tangled in that sort of silliness. he thwarts fate yet again<\/p>\n
it ain’t much, but at least there is a bit that made it into the newsletter<\/p>\n
recently, siggimus had an encounter with the stupidest lift he has ever had an encounter with. which is saying a considerable something when siggimus has encountered the simple-minded elevators of plavnieki, riga, that are hard put to do even one thing at a time<\/p>\n
siggimus went into a brand new 4 storey building in reykjav\u00edk. not a bad building as far as new buildings go<\/p>\n
like some of its brethren, it has a lift. but whereas the simpleton lift in plavnieki had 4 functional buttons for its 9 available floors, this little queen of elevator silliness has 9 available buttons for its 4 functional floors<\/p>\n
in case you’re wondering; yes of course siggimus tried pressing all the buttons just in case there was something extremely exciting on an invisible 7th floor, hovering above the visible bit of the building<\/p>\n
not so<\/p>\n
mind you, siggimus is still trying to decipher the messages the lift tried desperately to send him. it said ‘er’ time & again as if it were considering what to say, or even how to say it, but never got around to saying anything sensible<\/p>\n
siggimus is not a stupid siggimus, so of course siggimus tried a few top secret but powerful combinations of numbers<\/p>\n
alas, to no avail, although siggimus surely got a wee bit too close for some evil entity or other’s comfort: a big but janitory looking feller stood & stared at siggimus intently for some 10 mins before asking him to leave<\/p>\n
10 mins later, when janitor was getting overly agitated & threatening violent measures lest siggimus cease his newfound activity, siggimus decided that an altogether different approach was required & aborted his mission<\/p>\n
for the moment<\/p>\n
so siggimus has drafted a schedule for further investigation of this, with 8 volunteers doing rotating 3 hour shifts, taking care to inconspicuously change clothing every 20 mins. bearded folk could greatly enhance any possible disguise by shaving off their beards in increments<\/p>\n