My road rage

What a way to start my freaking day.

The 139th reason I hate my job? The southbound exit at Ray Road. I swear that turnoff will be the death of me someday.

When exiting at Ray Road to turn west, there are two right turn lanes. There is a "YIELD" sign there. I typically take the left of the two lanes as I have to get into the left turn lane for the next light (which is probably about 200-300 feet from the exit ramp) as quickly as possible.

Today, some dumb broad in a big-ass red car (it may have been a Lincoln or Ford, I don't remember), who was in the lane to my right, decides as she's driving along that she wants to be in my lane.

Taking absolutely no notice that I, in my little green Saturn, am currently IN that lane.

Fucking bitch. Good thing my brakes are good. Good thing my reflexes are pretty decent. I slam on my brakes, so startled at her sudden utter need to be in my lane and nearly hitting her as a result that I forget to lay on the horn. She stops too, suddenly realizing maybe she should look before she moves over, and sees me, screeching at the top of my lungs at her and gesturing. Since I'm not moving any longer she decides its okay to proceed and continues on her way, effectively cutting me off.

Fucking whore. She's damn lucky we were going maybe 10 mph so braking wasn't a problem. If it were a straightaway and we'd been going 30mph or more, she would've been in my fender before either of us realized what was going on. I don't think she even bothered to glance into her mirror, let alone over her shoulder. She would've seen me if she had. Her peripheral vision must be worthless, 'cause the front of my car was about even with her driver's side mirror, so even a casual glance to the slight left would've meant she saw me.

I wonder if I had ended up hitting her who would've been at fault. I'd like to think she would have since she was cutting into my lane without looking. I think that, yes, she would have been at fault, now that I think back to an accident that a friend of ours (or our friend's ex-gf, rather) was in which was similar.. She pulled into a left turn lane which was rather long and was approaching the light when a jackass in the lane to her right jumped out in front of her, and she clipped his car like I would have this lady's car if I hadn't been able to stop. The driver who pulled out in front of her in that case was found at fault, if I recall correctly.

I wonder, if I had hit her, how much damage either of us would've sustained, and wonder if the damage to my car would've been more than it is worth. Like I said, I wasn't really going very fast, but even damage done at 10mph can be costly, and my car's total worth is only like $1500.

Feh. I'm just P.O.'d that people just don't pay attention when they're driving. Good thing I was today.

Grrr....

oh, do I have to??

Due to the sheer number of windows we typically need to have open on our computers while doing our jobs here, most of the employees in my department have two computers: one for the main bulk of our work, and a second for idle things like monitoring.

One of my computers is a PIII with 256MB of RAM, the other a PII with 320MB of RAM, both with Win2K. Which do you think runs better? Not the PIII, surprisingly. The installation of Win2K on the PII has been there for well over two years (may 2001) and is still running strong (*knock on wood*). The PIII has had win2k installed since Oct 2001, and while I haven't had any need for it to be reinstalled, it's by far less efficient. Whether it's just because of the memory difference (oh, 64k, whee!!), I don't know. It could be a faulty install of Service Pack 4 for all I know.

But anyway, my whine is that I may have to give up my good running PII. :o( For some reason our bosses are going to double people up at desks (on opposite shifts) after the next schedule change. Right now we have enough desks so that only like two people have to share computers/desks. The one that told us about some of us having to double up at desks won't say why, except that the freed up desks will be needed. But why? Is another department moving in with us?

Feh. All I know is that because I got a shift that can accomodate desk sharing (the person who will share my desk is on the shift built like mine but on graveyards), I will probably have to give up my second computer and start using my desk mate's main computer as my secondary one. I'm half tempted to try to hide my second computer just before the schedule changes to see if I can manage to keep it. Either that or I'll plead with my bosses to let me keep my second computer. It's not like it would be in the way, it sits on the floor anyway (it's a tower, the PIIIs are desktops).

Maybe it's petty to be complaining about something as trivial as losing a good computer, but dammit, if it ain't broke, leave it alone! :-(

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