{"id":2389,"date":"2003-11-30T19:37:06","date_gmt":"2003-11-30T19:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vu2057.freddie.1984.is\/siggimustest\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2009-04-30T19:56:42","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T19:56:42","slug":"november-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/2003\/11\/30\/november-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"november 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

finally [30 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

saw it<\/a><\/p>\n

hehe [30 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

‘none of us is as dumb as all of us’<\/p>\n

‘always remember you are unique. just like everybody else’<\/p>\n

there’s more!!<\/a><\/p>\n

puh!! [30 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

wakes up at 7.13<\/p>\n

knot<\/a> back<\/p>\n

what’s with waking up after 3 hours of sleep following all that boogeying..?<\/p>\n

booooogey!! [29 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

goes to work-christmas-boogey with knot<\/a> in tummy<\/p>\n

not half bad!<\/p>\n

singing christmas carols seems a bit off this early…<\/p>\n

good eatings<\/p>\n

the mouse that siggimus suspected was in his package turns out to be a cat!!<\/p>\n

soon after named lucifer<\/a> rather than beelzebub<\/a><\/p>\n

initiation ceremony was short & relatively painless to those concerned. this year’s freshmen got off easy *has nightmares thinking of his own*<\/p>\n

retarded dj<\/a> wants everyone to participate in inane & silly dance games, most of which involve accordion polka interspersed with ‘proper music’<\/p>\n

dey has macallan at the bar, so it ain’t all bad…<\/p>\n

den after a while, a part of the gang takes off for nasa, although they end up at thorvaldsenbar, where siggimus dances his wee socks off with hei\u00f0d\u00eds & m<\/p>\n

mmmm \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

job offer reiterated [29 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

strutting home, mobile rings again<\/p>\n

‘hello, is this siggimus again?’<\/p>\n

‘ya again!!’<\/p>\n

‘did siggimus ponder yet?’<\/p>\n

‘tell siggimus more!’<\/p>\n

hmm, siggimus would have to go to tampere<\/a> for 6-12 months & do some software testing, real important stuff:
\n-testing stuff
\n-meetings
\n-hunting for bugs
\n-reporting
\n-suggesting improvements
\n-adhoc testing look it up!<\/span><\/p>\n

‘hmmmm<\/p>\n

let siggimus ponder some more, ok?’<\/p>\n

‘sure thing, siggimus!’<\/p>\n

tampere, eh?<\/a><\/p>\n

job offer!! [29 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

mobile rings while at work<\/p>\n

‘hello, is this siggimus?’<\/p>\n

‘ya!!’<\/p>\n

‘siggimus wanna come work for me in finland<\/a>?’<\/p>\n

turns out this dude works for a humongous recruiting agency in london<\/a> & somehow stumbled across web siggimus & found da cv promising (d’uh!)<\/p>\n

‘hmm, lemme ponder a while, why don’tya?’<\/p>\n

‘sure thing, siggimus! as you wish!’<\/p>\n

mmmmm… finland<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

victory! [28 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

it takes a wee bit of coercing & bullying & some creative rulemaking at the hands of one ept, but the old boys manage to conquer the chickens<\/p>\n

eeeeeeeeeeek!!! [28 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

turns out it’s the cops!! cf. 23 november 2002<\/span><\/p>\n

da cops have taken to keeping tabs on siggimus<\/p>\n

under surveillance, sorta<\/p>\n

As the Chinese proverb puts it, \u201cYour speech should be better than silence, if not, be silent.\u201d<\/p>\n

da man is on to siggimus!<\/p>\n

siggimus’ gotta watch his fingers as they nimbly scuttle across the keyboard now :\/<\/p>\n

cave!! [26 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

manages in second attempt to procure much wanted tickets to see the king<\/a> himself!!<\/p>\n

the world truly is a beautiful place today<\/p>\n

\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

shocks [25 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

bj\u00f6ssi gaga by curing a hickup by the one failsafe remedy<\/p>\n

intrigued?<\/p>\n

contact siggimus<\/a> for details \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

ugh :\/ [25 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

bj\u00f6ssi gaga calls at 17.08<\/p>\n

wants to drop in<\/p>\n

hmmm<\/p>\n

this in itself is ok, but siggimus’ worries are later confirmed when bj\u00f6ssi asks if it’s ok he brings a bit of beer…<\/p>\n

ugh :\/<\/p>\n

hah!!! [25 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00f3li palli sends siggimus a mail, scolding him for not picking up his prize & demanding an address<\/p>\n

siggimus, of course obliges the king & promises to wait out by the imaginary mailbox until the little surprise arrives<\/p>\n

weeeeee!!!<\/p>\n

hmmm? [23 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

siggimus wonders<\/p>\n

why is it that web siggimus is being visited time & again from the servers of the ministry of justice?<\/p>\n

oddly enough, these people all seem to come through an msn.com search for ‘siggimus’<\/p>\n

is this turning into siggimus’ biggest fanclub?<\/p>\n

hmmm? are you a member<\/a>?<\/p>\n

in the middle of the night, even!<\/p>\n

dis does not compute<\/p>\n

bond, james bond [22 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

doesn’t go to a gala premiere of that latest bond flick<\/p>\n

having to endure all the ‘famous’ people we have scared siggimus off<\/p>\n

well, having to endure that lot & having to rent a tux…<\/p>\n

reading group [21 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

since he’s skipping football, siggimus organizes a meeting in the reading group<\/p>\n

mmmmmmm! talk about scrumptious<\/a>!!<\/p>\n

one could discuss that one forever \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

& it turns out, dey is making it into a film<\/a>!!<\/p>\n

who da fuck is sandy johnson<\/a>?<\/p>\n

foul treatment [21 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

unavailable for football, seeing as siggimus’ foot is extremely swollen & blue<\/p>\n

all of this is due to the treatment of siggimus at the hands of a new colleague, henceforth known as ‘the executioner’ (or the tent :D)<\/span><\/p>\n

surprisingly enough, the executioner is a lawyer<\/p>\n

anyone notice a pattern here?<\/p>\n

in fact the similarities don’t end there!! not only is this dude a lawyer, but he’s also in charge of dealing with the serious debtors<\/p>\n

lesson learnt: beware of lawyers who have made a career out of parting you & your money<\/p>\n

erm… doesn’t that cover most of them..?<\/p>\n

buckley [17 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

too busy to celebrate :\/<\/p>\n

andri returned [17 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

having watched that flick again & ate some more pizza, andri is returned to his parts<\/p>\n

sleepover [16 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

andri calls & asks if he can come over & stay for the night<\/p>\n

softhearted little siggimus can’t say no to the little rat, so he comes on over<\/p>\n

they rents one<\/a> & buys pizza & stays up ’till the wee hours<\/p>\n

siggimus decreed the best uncle in creation<\/p>\n

zzz [16 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

finally gets around to replacing the ole mattress, whose springs have been poking him hither & thither & bruising him all over & wrecking his back<\/p>\n

buys an astronaut’s mattress for millions, the type that leaves a hole after siggimus gets up \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

them millions better have been spent on a miracle cure that fixes the crappy siggimus back in a few days…<\/p>\n

football, cont’d [16 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

foot turns purple \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n

many small things [15 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

invite siggimus & other marketing gurus from work to celebrate moving to a new place<\/p>\n

quite the shindig<\/p>\n

a number of supposedly famous artists get the dancing going<\/p>\n

siggimus & svand\u00eds apparently smother all hope of getting a raise in the near future by not participating in the conga snake<\/p>\n

afterwards, all go to that thorvalden bar thing with 3 hot chicks from a bank<\/p>\n

football [14 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

football goes a bit sour after siggimus allegedly roughs up an opponent, a brand new colleague\/part-namesake<\/p>\n

part-namesake not too happy & his foot encounters the siggimus foot in a rough manner<\/p>\n

in an unsurprisingly heroic manner, siggimus stays on & keeps his team afloat, leading them to a glorious 10-0 victory<\/p>\n

festen [9 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

finally goes to the theatre!!<\/p>\n

man!!<\/p>\n

been way too long<\/p>\n

meets up at b’s brand new crib (congrats! it’s great) for a soup & some wine before trotting down laugavegur to \u00fej\u00f3\u00f0leikh\u00fasi\u00f0 for to see a play (duh)<\/p>\n

the play<\/a> was a stage adaption of a flick<\/a><\/p>\n

the movie was impressive & powerful<\/p>\n

but this, wow!<\/p>\n

siggimus was close to tears at times \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n

bowling [8 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

goes bowling with work<\/p>\n

sets his goal high: managing what he barely missed last time: finishing last<\/p>\n

fails aboninably! finishes 13th out of 17 dudes & that’s not counting the chicks :\/<\/p>\n

even wins the second round on his lane<\/p>\n

this will not do, siggimus!!<\/p>\n

tsk! tsk!!<\/p>\n

den off to karaoke-crooning pub \u00f6lver<\/a>, where he finds olikr & steinunn stef & sigga who are der crooning with fr\u00e9ttabla\u00f0i\u00f0. turns out \u00f3likr had just been on a panel selecting the least bad crooner & made a few enemies in the process. good thing he’s parted ways with dat lot & joined siggimus’ profession instead of that journalism stuff<\/p>\n

anyhooo, boogey on! party hearty!!<\/p>\n

great & beautiful company, great whiskey<\/p>\n

what else can a siggimus ask?<\/p>\n

b-day [7 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

goes right from work to dad’s for a wee cake-party to celebrate his 77th, skipping football & missing the chance to be #1<\/p>\n

ill [6 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

overworked, siggimus falls a wee bit ill & stays home<\/p>\n

actually, was more ill at work yesterday, but sorta needs time to recover<\/p>\n

does that<\/p>\n

\u00fcberputerfixer called upon [5 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

big sis’s friend in puter trouble, so siggimus is called for & asked to fix puter<\/p>\n

takes a good deal of time, but siggimus finally manages to purge the old thing of da bugbear virus, but that’s where it stops. not able to install antivirus \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

sentences the wreck to the scrapheap<\/p>\n

gets paid in pizza<\/p>\n

poool [3 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

jonkurteiz finds himself in the same predicament as siggimus, so he calls up & wants do go out & do just anything<\/p>\n

dey agrees dat dis means dey’ll at least have something to say if someone should ask them what they did over da weekend<\/p>\n

dey plays a bit of pool<\/p>\n

siggimus wins the first two & is mental victor of 4th game too<\/p>\n

mmmm [3 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

buys ( )<\/a><\/p>\n

mmmmm<\/p>\n

wanted [2 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

life, slightly used, preferably in good condition, but siggimus ain’t too choosy these days…<\/p>\n

mmm, finally saw this one<\/a><\/p>\n

read the book<\/a>, saw the flick<\/a>, now all that’s left is to eat the pie<\/p>\n

hmmm [1 november 2002]<\/span><\/h3>\n

wanted to see if they were right about how it depicted things<\/p>\n

trying to get a peek into bj\u00f6ssi gaga’s<\/a> head<\/p>\n

not sure that was quite what he got…<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

finally [30 november 2002] saw it hehe [30 november 2002] ‘none of us is as dumb as all of us’ ‘always remember you are unique. just like everybody else’ there’s more!! puh!! [30 november 2002] wakes up at 7.13 knot back what’s with waking up after 3 hours of sleep following all that boogeying..? booooogey!! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nothing","category-olddiary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcQPg2-Cx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions\/2409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}