Frustration . . .

Trying to catch up with the news on-line with BBC and ABC (Australia) I find my broadband connection is so slow that I cannot get adequate video streaming! Tiscali UK customers beware! They promise you "fast" broadband connection and deliver slower than dial-up so that Realplayer and Windows Media Player fall down and need to stop every few seconds for more buffering! Crap! I am seriously thinking of going cable to get a more reliable connection.
A better day in work - I was mainly working on checkouts because there were so many customers that I needed to "queue-bust" all day! It made the time go a bit quicker - but it also reminded me that checkout operators are not immune from abusive customers who get angry for trivial (or non-existent) reasons. I made a play of calling for security on my radio to shut one of them up (he didn't know I hadn't pressed the transmit button). The vast majority of customers are cheery, and happy to be going through the tills because they know that the next step is out of the building and they can then go and play with their purchases and get on with real life outside. So be it - giving them a cheery smile and maybe a comment on what a good choice of product they have made very often makes them feel good about themselves, which makes me feel good about myself.
Not much else to say unless I catch up with the news later on. Perhaps there is no news! No news is good news, they say (who are the mysterious THEY?) Diary ends-ish!