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Post by grahamthomson on Jun 7, 2010 8:05:21 GMT
It's hay fever season. Even the dog has it.
We're doped up on antihistamines, so neither us can operate heavy machinery.
I may nap today. I've brought my Soundwave blanket to work.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2010 9:47:06 GMT
I'm off work again today. Hopefully I'll be in tomorrow.
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Post by dinogrrl on Jun 8, 2010 3:12:20 GMT
The Boss is back, over half a week early. And has cheerfully announced my leaving to the whole company. He hasn't handed me a termination date yet. At best it'll be end of July, at worst, end of June. I have no other interviews and no word from the one place I did interview. I am, naturally, terrified. There's no unemployment for me to resort to over here. *sigh*
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jun 8, 2010 5:31:04 GMT
The Boss is back, over half a week early. And has cheerfully announced my leaving to the whole company. He hasn't handed me a termination date yet. At best it'll be end of July, at worst, end of June. I have no other interviews and no word from the one place I did interview. I am, naturally, terrified. There's no unemployment for me to resort to over here. *sigh* Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 8, 2010 6:39:44 GMT
Feels like my head is going to explode, hardly getting any sleep. I'd call in sick but I'll have plenty of days off soon so what's the point.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Jun 8, 2010 6:48:41 GMT
Don't run yourself into the ground Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Jun 8, 2010 18:59:35 GMT
Hello Sportsfans!
Not a good start to the week for Doc' and Dino. Hope things turn around guys.
I've just finished 3 nights on the trot, filled mainly with utter rubbish jobs (including a cut thumb. THUMB!!! Not even a cut hand, but a cut thumb!!!). So today, just been chilling with my various errections. Got a Tescosis Indian and Real Ale to feast upon. And, best of all, IT'S C.S.I. NIGHT, BABY!!!!!
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Post by dinogrrl on Jun 9, 2010 1:22:30 GMT
I don't know if you're the internet hugs type Ralph, but here's one anyway. *hugs* This stuff sure sucks balls, don't it?
In other news, Subway has decided to change up the subway sandwich world by tessellating their cheese slices from July 1st onward. World changing news, people.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 9, 2010 10:12:33 GMT
How...what....tessalated cheese?
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2010 10:21:04 GMT
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Post by Shockprowl on Jun 9, 2010 10:33:27 GMT
So does this mean less cheese?
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Post by blueshift on Jun 9, 2010 11:19:04 GMT
I'm starting to get myself together a bit more. I've begun starting to pack for moving at the end of the month and fitting stuff into crates. I'll get back to people re: any outstanding toy orders, I have now recovered my very large box of toys from storage! Work is a mess though. We have an office move in motion and Cable and Wireless still have not installed the connection needed for internet access in our new office. So we might be networkless
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Post by kayevcee on Jun 9, 2010 23:00:04 GMT
I've been sorting through my Toy-fu stuff for AA and have realised that I have somewhere slightly less than half what I had by this time last year. I'm beginning to realise how absolutely eBay-loopy-nuts I'm going to have to go even after my return from Botcon to have enough gear to hock come Auto Assembly. Many thanks to Mr Bogatan, Blueshift and Glaug for their assistance in this regard and to Karl for a generous box of donations but there's still plenty more to do UK Orientation Day for KAUST is, as previously documented, the same weekend as Botcon so I had to go to another event which is on Friday, so tomorrow I am being flown out to f***ing EGYPT for the Middle East Orientation Day. I am flying back on Saturday so not much time for sight-seeing, but KAUST is paying for it so I can't exactly complain. My supervisor at TRU has assured me that I will not be asked to work Sunday. Which is a relief. -Nick
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Post by dinogrrl on Jun 9, 2010 23:46:50 GMT
So does this mean less cheese? No, it's the same amount of cheese, merely oriented on the sandwich in a more even manner, so it's not cheese heavy on one side and cheese light on the other, like their old, non-tessellated arrangement. It just amuses me to use a ridiculously complicated sounding word like tessellated with respect to something as mundane as cheese.
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Post by blueshift on Jun 10, 2010 5:52:24 GMT
I've been sorting through my Toy-fu stuff for AA and have realised that I have somewhere slightly less than half what I had by this time last year. I'm beginning to realise how absolutely eBay-loopy-nuts I'm going to have to go even after my return from Botcon to have enough gear to hock come Auto Assembly. Many thanks to Mr Bogatan, Blueshift and Glaug for their assistance in this regard and to Karl for a generous box of donations but there's still plenty more to do There is still Rescue Force Mountain, don't forget!
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Post by blueshift on Jun 10, 2010 8:59:08 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 10, 2010 18:26:40 GMT
I seem to have reached that point that people get to under extreme duress where they flip from a state where people round about them are commenting on general levels of doom to giddily happy, for absolutely no reason. I'm still a couple of weeks from life going completely down the toilet yet am strangely elated. How bizarre.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 10, 2010 19:28:57 GMT
Back from holiday - I survived Minehead Buttlins !
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Post by chrisl on Jun 10, 2010 20:47:55 GMT
Did a relatively small conference paper last week at work - only a couple of people from my uni turned up to see it but 20 people from other unis came (including overseas) which was nice. Quite stressed at the moment as my PhD supervisor is going away on leave and I have a big meeting about my PhD with my second supervisor who is a bit of a gimp and has no clue about the project (my main supervisor and I have tried to semi-sideline them). Running a workshop next week with the head of another uni's Grad school which is quite scary, then flying out to Dublin to give another conference paper (again nothing to do with my PhD - just my job). Got reports coming out of my ears for my job and suffering from a lack of motivation.... AGHHHHHH!
but I have found 10 minutes to throw together a couple more Desolation panel sketches. although i have got lazy and drew them in pieces and used photoshop's layer function to stitch them together - especially drawing the heads separately to the bodies *shame*.
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Post by blueshift on Jun 11, 2010 8:24:20 GMT
I have some Armada Mosaic art from Matt Dallas to colour now. Yaaay :v
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Post by dinogrrl on Jun 12, 2010 1:22:51 GMT
My wonderful soon-to-be-ex employer sent me two emails this morning. One was with the job description they intended to post, and wanted me to check it over to make sure it was accurate. Yes, I had to vet my own job to put up on Craigslist. I mailed back saying it was fine and asked if he could give me a general timeline of when they expect to have someone hired by. The only response I got to that was to be cc'd on an email indicating that the position has been posted to Craigslist and on the company website.
Boss also wanted me to tell him how much unused holiday time I have left. This job supposedly came with 3 weeks of leave per year. Over five years, that's 15 weeks. I've taken a grand total of 3. So technically he owes me 12 weeks of holiday pay. I say technically because after I emailed this back to him I got no response for the rest of the day. I will be floored to the point of falling off my chair if he actually pays me all 12 weeks. He's a tight bastard when it comes to other than what he wants to spend money on.
Still no word from the people I had my sole interview with. Now been two weeks. I wish the bastard would give me a solid termination date so I can start applying to local retail/food service jobs with confidence of when I could start.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jun 12, 2010 7:52:23 GMT
Cripes! You're entitled to 3 weeks leave per year and you've only taken 3 weeks over 5 years? How did that happen? Heck, that shows commitment... or something.
Anyway, I'm rooting for you, and really hope this period of change works out to your advantage when the dust settles.
I say, chaps, is there some sort of organised contest of physical dexterity taking place at the current time? I could have sworn I heard a rumour to that effect. Oh well!
(I put on the news channel at 8pm last night to find out what was happening in the world. The first 16 minutes of news was football, then they had a short item on the oil spill, and then it was time for the sport slot. Marvellous how everything that normally fills the news has conveniently ceased to make room for this phenomenon. It's like Big Brother or Eastenders or some other such popular entertainment that I can't understand has suddenly become top news story for a period of time... weird! But it's (pretty much) harmless and I don't begrudge it to those who do take an interest, strange as it seems to me. I suppose my excitement at the prospect of going on my first dormouse survey in the local woods this weekend would seem strange to most people.)
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 12, 2010 8:32:43 GMT
I hate football with a passion that man may not know..... I same close to abusing my mod powers yesterday and closing the world cup thread for a laugh
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 12, 2010 9:22:37 GMT
Zero interest in this context of physical dexterity that I also hear is happening.
To relieve my stress a bit, doing some Star Dub this am, then it's off for the long canal walk between Linlithgow and Falkirk. About 11 miles, usually makes for a relaxing 3-4 hour stroll.
-Ralph
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Post by Jaymz on Jun 12, 2010 11:17:46 GMT
I hate football with a passion that man may not know..... I same close to abusing my mod powers yesterday and closing the world cup thread for a laugh It wouldn't have been very funny. I don't like Dr Who, so should I lock the Dr Who thread in the film forum "for a laugh"?
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jun 12, 2010 11:23:03 GMT
I same close to abusing my mod powers yesterday and closing the world cup thread for a laugh Why don't you draw a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad while you're at it, eh? Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 12, 2010 12:19:35 GMT
I hate football with a passion that man may not know..... I same close to abusing my mod powers yesterday and closing the world cup thread for a laugh It wouldn't have been very funny. I don't like Dr Who, so should I lock the Dr Who thread in the film forum "for a laugh"? Retaliation from a football fan was the only reason I didn't.
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Post by dinogrrl on Jun 12, 2010 15:36:32 GMT
Cripes! You're entitled to 3 weeks leave per year and you've only taken 3 weeks over 5 years? How did that happen? Heck, that shows commitment... or something. Martin Or something, like I just never really bothered to plan a vacation and that I always felt very responsible to have the results to the clients on a timely basis. I was the only person running the lab for most of that time, so I would have had to ask the boss to fly down from Canada to come and fill in for me while I took holidays, which I guess became too intimidating a prospect. There was a past employee who up and quit with no notice who apparently complained about how difficult it was to plan to take holidays with the boss. Ah, soccer. Which is what you have to call it over here in the States, otherwise they think of gridiron. America is apparently playing England today, which should be hilarious. It's one world level sports event where America pretty much lands at the bottom. For some reason I find this greatly amusing.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 13, 2010 8:06:48 GMT
I can only admire how you've stuck it out at that place as long as you have. It sounds like while you might not hate the job, the boss you have is a complete tool.
Andy
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jun 13, 2010 12:03:24 GMT
Well, I went on my first dormouse survey today. I think the chaps with the licences deliberately planned the roundabout route through the nature reserve so that we had about 30 dud nestboxes and numerous nettles and brambles to fight through (and even a park ranger with a mighty lawnmower blowing pollen into my face by the entrance) to test my commitment before bringing me to the nestboxes that actually had live dormice in them. But it was worth it. Three adult females and a juvenile male sexed and weighed, and a few babies that we didn't disturb, and I GOT TO HANDLE ONE OF THESE IN THE WILD! A protected species, whose presence has prevented road development. Such a privilege to hold one in my hands before returning it to its nest! Isn't nature wonderful? Martin
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