Goodbye old friend

Our administrative director, Kevin Redam retired today. He was a nice guy. Somehow he managed to get some work done without pushing too many people around. We have a new guy taking over from him on Monday. Kevin's managed to get himself a ten-year living permit on the New Zealand Actively Retired Community. (That's a classy name for an old age home) Once that's up he'll probably go in for euthanasia. I'm surprised he's got enough money for that long. Yeah, he's got a daughter. She moved to the Alpha Luna colony with some mining boss boyfriend ten years ago. I suppose he hasn't heard much from her since then. Rumour has it she sneaked out on a corporate transport under an assumed name and was "missing" for over a week. And I don't think she's gonna pay for daddy's retirement.
Now where was I? Yeah, the new guy. Supposed to be some hotshot guy from the Water Corporation. Frankly I think that the administration's crazy hiring an ex-Water Corp lackey, especially after the Corp messed up the Three Gorges Dam project in China and flooded a few hundred square kilometers last year. Luckily I'm going off to Zimababwe on Tuesday, so I won't have to suck up to him till half the month's gone. Not that I'll be happy in Zimbabwe. This is the second time this year that they managed to fry their microwave comm-link with the InterPlaNet. And it's even hotter there.
As for the smartass yapping about air-conditioners: yeah the future got passed them and Faster-Than-Light doesn't work. So get over it.

Yipee! it's me again

I'm back etc. etc. So, what now? I don't know. Why haven't I been typing? Didn't feel like it I suppose. When you have a job that pays peanuts and the only upshot is free travel to places you don't want to go, you're not really in a mood to write poetry. And my nightmares? Yeah, they're okay. Live and kicking just as they've always been. It's hot again and the ECC still officially denies global warming. At least air conditioners still work on this damned planet.