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Post by The Doctor on Feb 15, 2010 7:58:26 GMT
Well, I've decided to give up chocolate and crisps for a while, as well as pints. I want the few pounds added to my waist to be gone. Also, I could use a change for a bit anyway to be honest.
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2010 9:59:42 GMT
Went down to the pub last night to see what this pub quiz they were doing was like and ended up downing six pints of bitter in about two hours! Today I'm not doing much other than waiting on a call from the job agency to tell me when I'll be next needed into work.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2010 18:26:26 GMT
The job agency has just got back to me and said that I won't be needed into work tomorrow. I only worked there two days last week and it looks like I'll have no more than three days this week. I think it's time I looked for a job with more prospects than this one.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 15, 2010 22:11:43 GMT
So there I am enjoying a nice night in on the sofa when I notice this red dot playing about all over the curtains with another in the room. Someone over the road was shining a laser or similar into our front window. Scared the living daylights out of me !
Graham , you've not moved in opposite me seeking revenge for the mobile phone have you ?
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Post by dinogrrl on Feb 16, 2010 4:00:45 GMT
Whoa, that's a little creepy! I remember when those keychain laser pointers first became popular. Dad and I went to see Starship Troopers in the theatre and some teenagers decided it would be funny to squiggle one of those pointers all over the screen. Until some burly sounding guy bellowed out 'If you don't cut that out I'll rip your fucking arms off!'. And they stopped.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 16, 2010 13:35:20 GMT
Dear lord, my bottom. Something has disagreed with my tummy and I'm busy weeing out of it. And passing whole bits of last night's meal.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2010 17:01:59 GMT
Another knock-back from the job agency means I won't be working tomorrow therefore I'll only get a maximum of two days work this week which largely equates to one weeks dole money.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 16, 2010 19:26:20 GMT
The evening of pancake day will be spent doing some paranoia tidying up ahead of a routine flat inspection from the letting agency. I'm hoping to stay on for another 6 months after the initial 6-month lease assuming the job pans out*, so want to make a good impression. It's tidy enough, I think, though.
-Ralph
*I still feel I barely know Edinburgh and could benefit from a solid base for a while longer.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2010 19:28:32 GMT
I'll have to get some pancakes made sometime. Every year pancake day comes and goes in my house without a pancake ever being thrown.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Feb 16, 2010 23:56:10 GMT
Lots of pancakes made tonight. I think I might make some more tomorrow. When the packet says 'makes 8 pancakes' they are clearly mistaken. Or small.
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Post by dinogrrl on Feb 17, 2010 4:54:58 GMT
Bloody hell, you know you've been in America too long when you have to Google 'Pancake Day' to remember what Shrove Tuesday is.
I did not make pancakes.
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Post by Gav on Feb 17, 2010 16:15:04 GMT
I've got a chesty cough, everyone. Boo hoo, blub blub.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Feb 17, 2010 16:29:19 GMT
Mine has just gone. Now I know where...
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 17, 2010 18:32:25 GMT
I am only now feeling back at full power after the lurgy at the start of the month.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 17, 2010 18:41:30 GMT
Oh, and today at work, we made chickens out of balloons.
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2010 18:53:52 GMT
Another reply from the job agency has informed me that I'm not in work tomorrow which makes it every day so far this week.
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Post by legios on Feb 17, 2010 20:16:57 GMT
I was offered a pancake by a colleague today at work, but as they were made with eggs I had to decline.
A surprisingly successful day today - I got a great deal achieved and was on my way out of the office by five-thirty, which is something akin to a record for the last couple of months.
Karl
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Post by legios on Feb 18, 2010 22:34:00 GMT
Another day when things went rather well workwise. I actually managed to get out of the office slightly before five thanks to the half-days worth of flexi-time credit that I have built up. Hopefully I shall be able to get out at a reasonable hour tomorrow as well/
I can feel the fatigue building up though - I have been going fairly flat out since January and it is starting to tell a little. Unfortunately although I am tired I am having a certain amount of trouble sleeping. Not the best combination.
I think I shall prescribe myself a nice glass of whiskey and a sit down with a good film for tomorrow evening. Might help me recharge the brain cells.
Karl
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2010 22:41:14 GMT
Of recent I've had trouble sleeping and I've put it down to being worried or stressed out over something. In the latter months of my employment at my previous workplace the gaffers were treating me with the utmost contempt and this got to me and as a result I had trouble sleeping. When they sacked me however I had the best sleep ever for the next few weeks because they were no longer breathing down my neck.
However, when the problem of how to pay my bills with dole money reared its ugly head I came down with insomnia once more and this stayed with me until about a fortnight ago when I was given this recent job. Although I haven't worked for the past week I still believe that the job is still there for me when work picks up and so I'm getting a much better nights sleep at the moment.
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Post by kayevcee on Feb 18, 2010 23:06:43 GMT
I was summoned from bed at 8.25 this morning. On the other end was my department manager saying that someone had phoned in sick and could I come in to cover him. I was kind of looking forward to a day off but decided that after urinating away an astonishing amount of cash on the family holiday to Denmark for my folks' birthdays and the Botcon flight, I really do need to grind 'box humphing' for some more GP.
I should probably not play so many RPGs when I get home too.
In other news, KAUST emailed to say that they still had not received one or more of the documents I have to submit to have my application considered. I suspect it's the GRE result but the email helpfully didn't say. Eep.
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Post by dinogrrl on Feb 19, 2010 3:32:54 GMT
Today was a crap day at work. Made a tit of myself and got chastised by both Bosses.
Where the hell is Saturday?
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 19, 2010 8:11:03 GMT
It's here soon.
I'm experimenting with different sleep patterns to try to cure the bad sleeping I've had since last November. Strangely, getting up 15 mins later in the morning seems to be making a difference.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 19, 2010 9:22:41 GMT
try Camomile tea before bed.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 19, 2010 20:27:52 GMT
Tea and I are strange bedfellows.
Today was the first day in this job where I even felt a vague sense that I have some idea what I'm doing. For once, I don't feel totally shagged out on a Friday night so am off to see the Solomon Kane movie shortly about which I know nowt other than the poster. I hope for savage violence with cod "HAVE AT THEE" type dialogue.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 19, 2010 21:48:07 GMT
This ain't your normal stuff. No caffeine, drink without milk.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 19, 2010 23:26:51 GMT
Ah, Solomon Kane. Very much a three-beer-with-mates-at-home-movie. Alas, I was stone cold sober.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 20, 2010 9:00:22 GMT
Like probably everyone I occasionally have things on my mind that stop me sleeping. At those times, I put on Radio 4 which has almost always got something interesting on in the small hours. It takes my mind off whatever I was thinking about, and either provides me with a few hours of pleasant listening, or leads to me dozing off, either with or without switching the thing off.
But I dunno, it may not be so effective for more people with serious sleeping problems.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 20, 2010 10:24:40 GMT
AWESOMENESS ITSELF!
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 20, 2010 10:47:39 GMT
Yeah, that exact same thing happened to me yesterday in the office. And then, while walking home past a music shop, this happened: Martin |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 20, 2010 14:37:48 GMT
I find it incredibly difficult to get to sleep, so generally I leave an audio play or a dvd with a commentary playing on and listen and eventually nod off.
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