kayevcee
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Post by kayevcee on Dec 16, 2009 22:04:12 GMT
Also knackered. Slightly less verbose tonight. I was off work Monday, Tuesday and Thursday (Wednesday was my day off) last week due to being flattened by some winter vomiting bug. Been back at work since Friday. As in every day. Tomorrow marks my 7th day on the trot, totalling 54 hours (60 counting breaks). Glad I decided I wasn't well enough to go back last Thursday- I'd be dead by now if I had gone in.
-Nick
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Post by legios on Dec 16, 2009 22:38:04 GMT
That is a long chalk there Nick. Especially considering the time of year.
I actually had a half-day today. It was the Christmas lunch but I opted not to go and took the afternoon as annual leave instead. I ended up coming home and getting stuck into some stuff around the house - defrosting of the fridge,cleaning the bathroom and that sort of thing.
A couple of days left this week, and then I am only in the office until Wednesday of next week. Then that is me done with work for 2009.
Karl
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2009 7:21:43 GMT
I have a day off today (for shopping-what? that's a legitimate reason to take time off work!)
Tomorrow we have our staff dinner in the afternoon, and then we can go home straight afterwards...HURRAH!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2009 11:19:40 GMT
Not doing anything today but tomorrow night I'll be watching a live band play again.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 17, 2009 15:14:20 GMT
I'm glad someone does Ken ! I thought it was very clever and subtle. The T-Shirt shows the animals that make the noises for the phone number. |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 17, 2009 20:28:10 GMT
Since I moved to Edinburger, a lot of people think I'm from Ireland. There's something strange about the Edinburger ear!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Dec 17, 2009 20:43:13 GMT
So, after a winter that has mostly been comprised of greyness and rain we finally get some proper winter weather. The first snow of the year has fallen on Edinburgh and Falkirk, and in sufficient quantities that I was able to make my first snowball of the year this lunch time.
Nothing like a bit of good winter weather to cheer me up.
Karl
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2009 22:41:27 GMT
Since I moved to Edinburger, a lot of people think I'm from Ireland. There's something strange about the Edinburger ear! -Ralph It must be your accent. I had the same problem when I started work. A lot of people said to me 'where do you come from - you're not from around here are you?' I quickly replied 'yes I am. I was born in Leicester and have lived all my life in the same village where I currently reside.' This left everybody scratching their heads because they say I don't have a Leicestershire accent. |
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Post by karla on Dec 20, 2009 19:18:21 GMT
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE WON!!!!
its a real original christmas song, doesn't stop it being painfully bad............
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 20, 2009 19:34:35 GMT
This weekend has been two completely contrasting days for me. Yesterday was a complete waste of a day. I finished work for the year Friday lunchtime and spent the rest of Friday eating and drinking (mostly drinking) with colleagues. I avoided the hangover by having a coke or two along the way, two proper meals and a pint of water before bed. However, I still did nothing at all with my Saturday, and wasting a day always brings me down. But today! Much better all round. Mass as usual at 9.30, then a stroll under cold blue skies to Cardiff Bay, where I had a little walk along the waterfront, bought a slice of corned beef and chilli pie and some olves from an outdoor stall, then went into the WMC for almost an hour of live skiffle with Railroad Bill and then, with a bottle of ginger beer, almost another hour from Maesteg Male Voice Choir. Then bus home (not even 3pm yet, mind), wrote some local Christmas cards, then out again to meet friends at a different church for Christmas carols, followed by a cup of tea, sandwich and cake in their church hall, finishing delivery of Christmas cards, and walk home to find the StarDub Christmas special awaiting me. Yesterday sucked. Today RULES. Martin |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 20, 2009 19:55:57 GMT
Knuckling down for 3 days of work before the Chrimbo break. Money running worryingly low. Ah the joys of waiting 6 weeks to get paid when your previous 3 months earnings were just Jobseekers Allowance. Maybe I should have went for that salary advance earlier in the month after all. Ah well. Not to worry. Off to the parentals Chrimbo Eve - Boxing Day and therafter plan to have a proper wander around Edinburger museums and the like in the following days. And I'll have a nice big pile of comics to retrieve from the sorting office so life isn't too bad, really.
Payday is the 31st of the month at which point I will briefly leave Thurgood Towers and make my way to the place that sells booooooooooooze!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 20, 2009 20:20:00 GMT
Three day week for me at work as well, long weekend and then back in for four days. A fairly quiet Christmas is on the cards, stuck working till 11 on New Year's Eve. Then I shall have to make an almost constant uphill 3.5/4 mile dash to get to festivities.
Andy
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 20, 2009 20:23:25 GMT
A fairly quiet Christmas is on the cards HAHAHAHA! Christmas is on the cards!! Hoho - on the cards, riot. Ha hum. Sigh. Martin |
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Post by legios on Dec 20, 2009 20:32:14 GMT
Payday is the 31st of the month at which point I will briefly leave Thurgood Towers and make my way to the place that sells booooooooooooze! -Ralph Of which we have a goodly choice on Planet Falkirk. Speaking of Falkirk:- I don't know but I've been told/ Falkirk-land is mighty cold as the song goes. At least, it was out on the canal when the snow was falling at quarter to nine this morning. I went out for my constitutional early on this morning (out of the house about 8.30am) to enjoy the snow. A stroll up the canal revealed that large chunks of it are frozen to a depth of about a half inch, and the swans are looking rather forlorn about the whole matter. (They looked even more forlorn when they realised that nothing had happened since Friday evening to change my stance on not being an automated bread dispenser...). They did not, however, look quite as put out as the Terns a few locks up - they were standing on the frozen ice giving it very annoyed stares. It was great to get off the beaten track a bit though. I was definitely the only human to go to the Roman fort since yesterday afternoon - but not the only living thing judging by the rabbit tracks that I was parralleling for much of the way. This afternoon was spent in the warm pottering about with some image-editing and doing a bit of cleaning about the place. Only three days left of work this year, and then I am not back in until the sixth of January. Rather looking forward to the nice long break. Karl |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 20, 2009 20:32:14 GMT
Even when I don't try I appear to pun.
Is there no end to this curse!
Andy
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Post by blueshift on Dec 20, 2009 21:00:25 GMT
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE WON!!!! its a real original christmas song, doesn't stop it being painfully bad............ I saw. Yessssss! |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2009 21:48:53 GMT
I listened to the end of the countdown on Radio 1 via the net and it was delightfully surprising. The only problem though is I fear RATM will lose the no. 1 spot to the X Craptor next week because most of the sales of the song were due to people buying because they didn't want Simon Cowell's latest effort to get to no. 1 whereas, the sales contributing towards X Craptor were (I'm lead to believe) genuine sales from fans of the show.
I'm don't exactly like the RATM song but it was a breath of fresh air and I threw my full weight behind it.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 20, 2009 22:12:53 GMT
Today has not gone well.
Early start for this morning sevice, in trouble with my hands right the way through.
Jonathan behaved very badly when we were out to lunch, I wasn't well and had to come home. By this evening I could barely stand or speak so I had to give tonights service (the one where I was reading and projecting) a miss.
Feel better nhow but still not at all good.
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