The sky had been totally overcast for a few days now, and the lack of sunlight is bothering me. Today I woke up after a good seven hours asleep feeling tired. I was late to work by a few minutes and I had a shitty breakfast because of that. Now a few key things are bothering me to the point where I feel like jumping up and kicking someone's ass, except that I don't even have the enrgy to do that.

1. The Open Source Mullet is coughing and hacking like a horse.

He's had bronchitis for a week now, and I understand being sick, but when he sits at his desk and coughs his lungs up every thirty seconds and sucks hocker every other thirty seconds (he just did it now! JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!) it's time to go to the restroom, blow your nose to Hell, and suck all the hocker you want and spit it out. But no. The hillrod sits there and coughs and sucks snot loudly on top of his normal swearing and cursing.

This shouldn't bother me but it's made it impossible to get into a rythm with my translation project. Fucking go to the restroom and take care of it, dipwad.

2. The translation project has a million things wrong with it.

I have to localize our web client into Canadian French, which is all good and well, as our customer provided the French phrases (FUCKING HELL the Open Source Mullet just did a five-second snot-suck again. GOD DAMN IT!).

The problem is, they looked at the screens and not the source, so a good 30% of text in untranslated. Well, I pass it on to them and they send these new translations back. Fine. Except it seems that they randomly choose not to translate some of the phrases, or send back translations that must be made into graphics that are waaay too long. The English "Reset Form" button just barely fits the English text into it-- I have no control over button sizes-- but the French translation is "Rétablir le Formulaire." How the FUCK am I supposed to stick that onto the button? And the customer KNOWS this. Yet they still pass this shittiness on.

My main bitch about all of these things is, I have 117 stylesheets to localize, and I can't even finish one fucking sheet because of the above problems. They all remain open, piecemeal in their status, and it's not getting resolved. And it doesn't help when the project manager, vice president, and my manager all come along to check on me. These reaons are valid but of course don't matter to them.

I'd like to sit them down at gunpoint and make them do this fucking translation work with their hands tied. Fuck marketing for having this project billed as five days. A month is more realistic but at this point it'll never get done.

I don't feel like bitching about the other shit that's bothering me, as it's even more petty and insignifigant than the above two. Instead I'll focus on what I can do to remedy my mood.

Hmm. Duct-tape the Open Source Mullet's nose and mouth shut, and kick him in the ribs? Ah. That would solve his noisiness and my frustration. And I think getting a side project to work on so I can take breaks from the translation project would be a good idea-- it would satisfy the company and also give me something else to do. Will this happen? NO.

Maybe some of you could come up with some way to deal with this. Between the shitty weather, the Open Source Mullet, and this fucking translation project from Hell, I am about to snap.