Well, here I am again in my little padded room. Having jostled my way through various groups of lugubrious besuited cow-eyed denizens of the public service (whose jobs are apparently so important as to require them to walk 4-abreast along the footpath in order to reach them simulteneously) I sit facing a day of joining and mixing streams of zeroes and ones together in such a way that, converted back to the analogue domain and appropriately transduced, they will approximate the sounds of human speech, music, and sound effects.

But first, a coffee.