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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 21, 2011 7:54:13 GMT
Thoughts and prayers with Phil and Ralph this week.
Martin
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Post by Hero on Feb 21, 2011 10:21:06 GMT
Staying up to watch the Elimination Chamber last night was probably a bad idea... Fell asleep after post Smackdown EC match promo. At least I gave Blaise her first LIVE WWE PPV experience (She was going to be up in the night anyway).
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 22, 2011 13:26:48 GMT
I'm now actively looking for things to distract from answering 3 questions on a job application. Must focus.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 22, 2011 15:14:25 GMT
Was feeling rotten past couple of days. Finally gave up the ghost at work shortly before 2pm and called it a day. Currently couch piloting and feeling foul.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 22, 2011 18:32:06 GMT
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Post by blueshift on Feb 22, 2011 18:52:27 GMT
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 22, 2011 19:35:38 GMT
That's cool!
Hi sportsfans! Get well soon people who need to get well. I continue to be the D.I.Y. master! Not by choice though. Getting there! Slowly but surely!
Went to our local 'Farm Park' yesterday. Piglet loved the small fluffy animals. And upon returning home spent the rest of the day trying to convince us that she was a Guinea Pig called katy, and that we'd left the real Katy at the Farm!
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Post by Hero on Feb 22, 2011 22:18:40 GMT
I had my nephew Oliver come round today. It's been almost 2 years since I last saw him.
Oliver did well today by meeting his new cousin and going back to Cornwall with acquisitions of Lego Rapper, Lego Zombie, Megamorphs Spidey and a still unwrapped late Christmas present of Animated Shockwave.
He is still yet to receive his birthday parcel next month which includes a Lego Ackbar within the goodies.
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Post by Dave on Feb 23, 2011 10:24:09 GMT
Last week was not a great one, but things a bit calmer now - apart from the fact the road is noisily being dug up.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 23, 2011 10:47:22 GMT
Went to bed shortly before 7pm last night, woke up to the work alarm this morning, walked to bathroom, felt shit, went back to bed until 9am and phoned in to work. Ugh.
-Ralph
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Post by Dave on Feb 23, 2011 11:11:28 GMT
Get well soon Ralph.
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 23, 2011 21:08:30 GMT
Yeah get well Ralph. I've applied for my first job in far too long. Taken 2 full days to answer 3 questions and only then really thanks to the job agency jobcentre send me too which conveniently I had an appointment for today. Really hoping I make the interviews (almost more than getting the job). Now I just need to learn to do the things I've said I can. Sort of. Andy
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 24, 2011 10:43:24 GMT
Get well soon, sick people. And good luck Bogatan!
Off to visit relatives in Cambridge for a few days!
Be safe out there folkes!
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Post by Dave on Feb 25, 2011 16:07:22 GMT
Nowadays I try to avoid work whinging but.... uggghh they make it difficult.
Although they are cutting hours and refusing to employ more people because they "have to save money", they are now going to install CCTV to snoop on us. Now I wish I could say that they were installing CCTV for security reasons and we joked that actually they were just checking up on us, but nope... they've come right out and said it's so they can check we are busy working at all times.
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Post by Hero on Feb 25, 2011 17:30:49 GMT
If the weather is good tomorrow, the film shoot is on.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 25, 2011 19:25:19 GMT
Sounds very demoralising, Dave.
Had a quiet week at work this work. Such weeks are rare enough now that they're quite pleasant when they come along.
Got home carrying my shopping, in the pouring rain. As I approached the house, I thought, "I could really do without a cat ambush right about now, as the cat in question would be sopping wet and the weather's too bad to refuse it sanctuary."
As soon as I got the door open, there was a "Mrow!" and sure enough a sopping wet Grace the cat (from three doors down) ran past me into the house.
Grace is quite old now (I've known her since she was a kitten) and well-behaved. After pestering me into giving her some Elmlea, she settles herself on the Radio Times on the little table by the radiator to dry herself off.
But what I can't fathom about cats is, why, after spending half an hour warming up, drying off and cleaning herself until she is immaculate, does she then suddenly jump up and ask me to let her out into the pouring rain again?
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 25, 2011 20:02:45 GMT
Hang on, is installing CCTV to check on workers legal?
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 25, 2011 20:24:10 GMT
I'm sure there is some loophole they can use. Given we are the CCTV champions of the world.
Andy
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Post by kayevcee on Feb 26, 2011 9:09:25 GMT
I hope somebody asked how many extra staff they could hire for the cost of the CCTV system. Kind of like when they added fingerprint scanners to the clock-in machines in Toys'r'us to stop people clocking in their mates who were running late. I can't imagine they were losing the equivalent of 75 fingerprint scanners worth of work from latecomers, totally aside from the fact that the scanners barely worked and could make staff late by refusing to recognise them, necessitating a manager to go onto the computers and change their clock-in time taking time away from even more people.
Never let common sense get in the way of a good management weeaboo, eh folks?
In other news, I've been sent a list of contact info for Biofuel companies. Going to try applying for internships with them in June so's I can avoid the blistering heat of another Saudi summer.
In other other news, I tried my hand at baking yesterday and made a batch of snowballs that actually came out okay, if a bit dry. I mucked up the icing though so the coconut didn't stick very well.
In other other other news, my spring break plans to visit Singapore and Vietnam with a group fell through, so I decided "feck it" and looked up flights to Japan. Got a good deal and at least two other guys interested. We fly out the end of next month! Hooya!
In other other other other secret news, something is apparently going to happen over here next month. Given what's happening in the rest of the region you can probably guess what. Some of us students are getting involved- it may not make a difference to policy but you only live once, right?
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 26, 2011 9:21:12 GMT
In other other other other secret news, something is apparently going to happen over here next month. Given what's happening in the rest of the region you can probably guess what. Some of us students are getting involved- it may not make a difference to policy but you only live once, right? Eep! Well, whatever it is, try to do it within sprinting distance of an airport, won't you? Martin
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Post by blueshift on Feb 26, 2011 9:27:37 GMT
I had a dream about Nick last night, he was trying to buy a neon green Hot Rod (which was released as a gobot) at an auction. He eventually lost because his bid was the phrase 'google unicron'. Frankly if anyone can explain that to me, it'd be welcome
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 26, 2011 9:57:26 GMT
Ugh! Up far to early to do some course work as a quiet house helps greatly, but I think I should just have slept in.
Jasper Fforde was doing a book signing at Waterstones yesterday so popped along and got the new Thursday book. I decided to treat myself as yesterday was also bonus day from work and I go a bit more than I'd expected. It was only £14 and a nice small sized hardback about the same size as the larger paperbacks so wont sick out to much. Also ended up getting 1000 Years of Annoying the French which looks like being entertaining and informative. After just finishing Neal Stephensons Baroque Cycle I'm in a bit off a History vibe.
Tickets for The Monkees went on sale for their UK tour yesterday, so want to go but think its too much for my budget.
Andy
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Post by kayevcee on Feb 26, 2011 10:11:39 GMT
Well, whatever it is, try to do it within sprinting distance of an airport, won't you? If the turnout is big enough to make anybody pay attention, sprinting anywhere will not be an option. Also the 35 o heat. I better not forget my hat. The city flooded two years in a row- people died and homes and workplaces were filled with untreated sewage. The government promised to do something to prevent future flooding and didn't. Corruption is rife, unemployment is sky-high, racism and mistreatment of foreign workers isn't so much acceptable as it is institutionalised, I don't even know where to start on the restrictions placed on women and both homosexuality and religious conversion both carry the fucking DEATH PENALTY. Protesting at all is frowned upon because the king is also a religious patron and opposing him is something akin to heresy. Did anyone hear about the protests here after the flooding? The information blackout is a bit of an arse too. This place has issues, man. I don't expect us to change everything, but even if we can shift one issue in the right direction that's something, right? -Nick
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 26, 2011 10:22:17 GMT
This place has issues, man. I don't expect us to change everything, but even if we can shift one issue in the right direction that's something, right? Darn tootin'! Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 26, 2011 10:33:34 GMT
February has been a supremely shitty month for various reasons and I hope to be free of it soon. Not feeling too great but need to go through to the parentals for a planned visit. I would shy off sick but my dad has made some effort at baking so I need to go.
*shoves tissues up nose*
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 26, 2011 10:47:13 GMT
I have an ill wife - cold and looseing voice - who needs to sign the service tomorrow morning.
I feel pretty poor myself due to the weather outside, v wet, and have a rather short temper today.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 26, 2011 11:08:47 GMT
Here's a picture of a sleeping dormouse to cheer everyone up. Martin
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Post by Hero on Feb 26, 2011 12:46:49 GMT
That RULES
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Post by legios on Feb 26, 2011 23:02:07 GMT
Yay! Sleepy Dormouse is great.
I have had a rather up-and-down February. Indeed, a rather up-and-down year so far in general. On the upside some things have resolved themselves and I am no longer facing possible redundancy. On the downside the option of voluntary redundancy is no longer open to me either. Definitely a blade with two distinct cutting edges that.
On the other hand at least I now know for certain that I am not prepared to remain indefinitely in my current position. It does not serve my skill-set or my temperament well, and vice-versa so it is definitely time I started rethinking my plans.
Some family stuff going on that is far from positive as well. But at the same time my mother and her new husband seem to be doing very well, being very happy together, and he has adapted well to having to be related to meself.....
All told it has so far been a year where I have just about broken even as far as the score-sheet goes. But still, a draw is a draw after all, right?
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 26, 2011 23:16:49 GMT
Swindon Town would settle for a draw at the mo....
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