Week 32 and the cow that wouldn't shut up

[grahamthomson]

My neighbouring agitated cow didn't stop moo-ing all damn night.

Even the cockerel had his beak out of joint as he normally wakes us all at 5, but the cow had done his job for him.

Now I'm wondering if the cow's stuck or trapped or something. Is it the sort of thing the RSPCA would act upon?

[The Doctor]

Bloody space plague. Under the weather yesterday and today. Made it into work for 90 mins before giving up due to thumping head, which is annoying. I do actually like my job and I'd rather be there (and I don't get paid when I'm off sick) for what little time I have left in employment there. Still, one of those things.

-Ralph

[The Doctor]

FROGS.



-Ralph

[Shockprowl]

OH DEAR GOD!!! That's freaked me out alittle, I have to say!

[Deleted]

Thats the kind of stuff Ralph looks for on YouTube when he's under the weather!

[Dezzeh]

Aug 3, 2009 7:10:44 GMT @grahamthomson said:

Now I'm wondering if the cow's stuck or trapped or something. Is it the sort of thing the RSPCA would act upon?

It is something they would act upon, but, you are better going direct to the farmer (being a farmboy myself).

[The Doctor]

I just tried to read Marvel's GI JOE AND THE TRANSFORMERS. I got as far as GI Joe blowing up Bumblebee for reasons too stupid to believe. Then I had to put it down. It was too painful! Too painful! It's been 19 years since I last read it yet the horror...remains!

-Ralph

[Bogatan]

6 hours listing stuff on ebay made for an exhausting Sunday. Today I finally reproduced Star Sabers sword for Nick, my fingers now have a thin coating of plastic which hopefully will one day come off. The red dyed plastic from last week still wont come off my nail. Tomorrow is work in the morning follwed by more hours of ebay listing.

Andy

[blueshift]

I thought the death of Bumblebee was genuinely sad and shocking

I stopped getting the comic in the middle of that story, so I thought he had died forever. But, I thought. Why didn't he just use his Pretender shell?

[The Doctor]

Aug 4, 2009 8:57:32 GMT blueshift said:

I thought the death of Bumblebee was genuinely sad and shocking

I did, when he was blown up by Death's Head in a better story. That was a real shock for young Ralph back in the day.

In other news, woke up feeling like death but went to work anyway. Bloody knackered. Popped home for lunch. Back to actively job searching again but, frustratingly, have yet to find any jobs worth applying for yet.

-Ralph

[legios]

I could do without days like today in all honesty. I've got a pair of glasses that I am going to have to see if I can repair, and that is only the beginning of what has gone wrong for me today.

Not even the arrival of a book that I have waited six weeks for has been quite enough to cheer me up.

Ah well, tomorrow is Wednesday. I at least have an episode of Masterforce to look forward to.

Karl

[kayevcee]

In Toys'r'us, the air conditioning has been bust for a month. It can't be fixed because man-eating seagulls are nesting in the vent. Our new area manager has been making life fun for our higher-ups who have been passing on corresponding fun to lower-downs like myself. Temperatures are high, deadlines are short, tempers are frayed and soon, somebody's going to get punched in the face. I hope it isn't me.

-Nick

[Bogatan]

Managed about 2 hours sleep last night most of it jaw clenchingly painful, literally. Thankfully 6 hours of Asda passed quickly enough. Till I had to walk home when the tiredness hit me. Three or four miles is too long to be a really pleasant walk but paying for two buses totaling £2.20 is madness.

Andy

[The Doctor]

Just fired off a job app, probably the first of many. Very, very few jobs going at the moment but at least it's a start.

-Ralph

[Shockprowl]

Bob the Builder is 'the thing' in our house at the mo. Birthday money and spoiling Grandparents -ok spoiling me, alright?!- have landed Piglet all the "Bisheans". Carboard boxes suffice as buildings/building materials. And Piglet, happy as Larry, directs activities with the skills and ruthlessness of Scrapper himself!

Went for a walk to day and Piglet was stung on the hand by a Stinging Nettle! She was not happy poor little sausage. A Doc leaf eased the sting. Soon as Mrs Shockprowl returned from work that's all Piglet talked about!

[Mark_Stevenson]

Another week of job applications. Yawn.

Mx

[legios]

Today has been a somewhat better day. A few of the things that had gone badly wrong yesterday are starting to resolve themselves. (Although I haven't yet attempted to repair my work glasses. I have decided not to push my luck, I will try my hand at them tomorrow I think).

I could have done without the temperature in the office being quite as high as it was - somewhere between 28 and 29 celsius this afternoon. A little too hot for my tastes, and judging by the degree to which I was slow of thinking this afternoon I think my brain could do with a larger heat sink.

Karl

[Shockprowl]

Glad you had a better day today, Karlos. One thing I CANNOT stand is being too hot. I don't do hot. Get really irritable and I sweat like a sonofabitch.

[The Doctor]

Jumped home on my break to do another job app. Cue lots of swearing as the formatting was completely fucked mysteriously half-way through. Deep breaths. Deep breaths.

-Ralph

[Deleted]

Wednesday morning: woke to the sound of my alarm clock at 5.45, turned it off and rolled back over for a few more minutes. Result: woke up again at 6.20 and ended up rushing out of the house to catch the bus for work just in time.

Wednesday evening: went to see a band play, drunk lots of beer and didn't get back home until gone midnight. Result: a very good nights sleep.

Thursday morning: woke to the sound of my alarm clock at 5.45, turned it off and rolled back over for a few more minutes. Result: woke up again at 7.30 and realised that I was already half and hour late for work so had to leave the house in a bigger rush than Wednesday morning!

[The Doctor]

That's another job app done. Very sleepless night. Knackered. And I have a (now pointless) 2-hour driving lesson straight after work. Weeeeeeeeeeee.

-Ralph

[blueshift]

I had my appraisal at work today. I was worried since it had been put back about 7 times, and that might have been a bad sign, but it went really really well. So I can do a bit more planning for the future now.

And learning to drive isn't useless Ralph, there are SO many jobs out there which ask for a driving license. I was doing some shortlisting at work the other day, 160 applications for one position. The market is so crowded that it is stuff like that which will help you get shortlisted.

[legios]

I'm rather glad that the working week has come to an end. It has been an....interesting one.... between one thing and another.

The temperature in our office of an afternoon has been peaking at 26.3 celsius for the last three days (took my temperature gauge with me). Warm enough to be distinctly uncomfortable. Mind you, the temperature in my house of an evening has been slightly higher so it hasn't made for getting to sleep as easy as it could be.

Karl

[The Doctor]

I am absolutely shitting myself as I've only been able to find 3 jobs to apply for so far, 3 weeks out from going back to the dole. My track record of number of interviews for apps done is, in the last year or so, vanishingly low. I needed to have a dozen done this week to be in with a realistic chance of getting another job quickly.

-Ralph

[Grand Moff Muffin]

The Welsh First Minister came to see our team on Monday, which was nice. Other highlights of the week include seeing the G.I. Joe movie, re-watching the entire Lord of the Rings extended trilogy (over several nights) and beginning to read for the first time The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky. 'Tis a mighty tome.

Tomorrow I have decided I will spend the entire day at home without switching on either my computer or my television. Day should consist of more Dostoevsky (hopefully sitting in the garden), baking a cheese pie, and listening to The Goon Show Volume 26 which came through my letterbox from Amazon yesterday. Then church and volunteering at the Museum on Sunday.

But tonight, before my TV/computer fast begins... Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Martin

[The Doctor]

I just pulled Universe Bluestreak off the shelf and completely failed to remember how to get it from robot to car. He has been returned as a half-car half-robot lump. Sigh.

-Ralph

[Philip Ayres]

Aug 4, 2009 8:57:32 GMT blueshift said:

I thought the death of Bumblebee was genuinely sad and shocking

I stopped getting the comic in the middle of that story, so I thought he had died forever. But, I thought. Why didn't he just use his Pretender shell?

You didn't twig that it's set concurrently with the issues where prime dies in the video game ?

I read it in the US format while buying the US comic. It dovetails nicely into both GI Joe & Transformers US runs.

[blueshift]

I was little! How was I to know! I thought maybe it was set during Resurrection! (itself a reprint!)

[The Doctor]

Saw the GI JOE film today and managed to banish all my worries for a couple of hours.

-Ralph

[Grand Moff Muffin]

Aug 8, 2009 9:26:48 GMT Philip Ayres said:

I read it in the US format while buying the US comic. It dovetails nicely into both GI Joe & Transformers US runs.

Except that Ravage appears in it when he's supposed to be down a mineshaft.

Well, that was a nice Saturday! Went from page 30 to page 200 of 'The Brothers Karamazov'. May take a day or two off work this coming week to try to conquer the remaining 550 pages.

Days like yesterday bring home to me how easy it is to just coast through life on a diet of easily digestible junk food for the mind, missing out on the greatest stories ever written. But I've got to the point in 'Brothers' where (as happened with 'The Lord of the Rings' at university) it has gained such momentum that I won't feel like reading anything else until I've finished it.

Martin