Setting the scene as I have in the past

This isn't the first time I've attempted this, and the last time I tried I ended up very much like this xkcd comic, and to be honest it'll probably end like that again this time. In the meantime though I plan on dumping my random thoughts, frustrations and gripes on you, dear probably-non-existant reader, so that I may have the satisfaction of getting a whole bunch of crap off my chest and putting it on that most private of domains, the internet. So sit back and do whatever people do when they read blogs of people they haven't met and don't care about.