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The standard work issue phone used to be an ancient Nokia with nothing, but we were invited to spend our own cash on smartphones, what with us being mobile tech consultants and all. However just found out that the standard phone is now a very respectable budget Android. This makes me happy because I was trying to figure out how to make one of my old ones work which are either shite or broken.
What's cheered you up today?
The imminent release of Rustie's new album featuring Danny Brown and Gorgeous Children. Ti's true! I got quite excited.
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Just me I suspect.
Remembering that there was an extra pork steak in the fridge when I was making my lunch. Epic sandwiches.
The office dog (a big friendly German Sheppard/Collie cross from the unit next to our work) charged at me from across the car park with a football sized tennis ball in its mouth!
Then proceeded to not let me have the ball and just made snorting noises at me. 🙂
Signing the contract for our new house, it can still all fall through but it's one step closer to completion.
Overhearing a conversation between 2 colleagues today:
Person 1: "What's their surname again?"
Person 2: "Mustard"
Person 1: "As in English mustard?"
Person 2: "No, French mustard"
I was working till midnight last night, just because I had my head in some code.
Got to about lunchtime today, felt a bit shit so my boss just told me to go home. it worked, I suppose as i'm sat at home, working, again 😀
connected another mouse in the pc of someone in the office and keep moving it when he's working ahahaha
Just bought some Ironbridge Sausages for tea, they have streaky bacon and black pudding in them. 🙂 Looking forward to tea.
Went to the tip at lunchtime, that's another car load of unnecessary sh1te out of my life.
Sold my 224, got it posted today. Pays for my holiday, that.
Sushi!! 😆
Nom, nom, nom, nom
Finished the first day of a training course early, as in by 2.00pm!
Missed the rain on the way home too :-).
Ton is doing ok.
[i]I don't know him ,but having read his "ever been proper scared " thread,the update made me smile.[/i]
My daughter passed her final exam. I'm so happy for her. 8)
That I'm going to bikepark wales tomorrow for the 1st time 😀
I had lasagne for lunch.
Getting an appointment arranged to see a potential customer tomorrow. Its been a quiet week so far and when you've just started working for yourself every appointment made is a small victory in itself.
enjoyed seeing how many names for young animals my four year old daughter now knows (quite a lot, including Kid/Goat)
Even better when she said a baby cow was a carton. 🙂
TM
Just unloaded a pickup load of oak rings for the firewood production line.
I've not swung the chainsaw in anger since before easter - it was strangely therapeutic
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http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/aug/12/edinburgh-fringe-2014-10-best-jokes-so-far
Tim VineThis bloke said to me, "I'm going to attack you with the neck of a guitar." I said, "Is that a fret?"
🙂
Someones just plonked a whole big tub of these on my desk 😀
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I saw Tim Vine last night, he didn't do that joke. He did do a bunch of less funny jokes though, so that made up for it.
We're one day closer to the kids going back to school 😈
We're one day closer to the kids going back to school
+1
Having a very nicely spoken lady holding my hand as a consultant carried out laser surgery on my left eye at Moorfields this afternoon, as well as Alberto the anaesthetist who held the other hand.
I got sent an email today, with a video of my daughter on holiday, swimming, properly 😀
Took a picture this morning of something that I'll hopefully post onto the "Argh, my eye" thread when I get home.
It's a small victory. 🙂
I thought my elderly xp laptop had terminal dying syndrome as I kept getting ssp errors, downloaded SP3 and BOOM I can shop again 🙂
My 2 year old daughter told me on the phone today at lunch time "love you dada" for the first time 😀
That and hearing Ton is one the mend.
Got a parking ticket in the space of about 10 minutes being parked up. Went to the parking ticket HQ and pointed out that the parking machine was broken so I couldn't actually pay and display. They ripped up the ticket.
Noice!
Getting a "cheers mate" from one of the kids we had mountain biking today, his care worker was impressed.
Negated by the lazy, you bloody teachers get loads of holidays, about an hour later.
found out my manager is being moved to another office after next week , hopefully his replacement will do the job properly (it's royal mail though so I won't hold my breath)
Hugely selfish, but announced my new private clinic today, which should bring in loads more work!
Found a packet of cashew nuts at the back of the cupboard. Now munching them looking at interesting cloud formations.
10 mins digging a trails during coffee break
Seeing geese fly overhead in a V formation, all squawking with excitement.
I found Mrs Crimble's bakewell slices in the shop. Used to be able to find them everywhere but seem to be in short supply now.
Will keep an eye out in the papers for Dr Death's clinic. But I think Shipman had that idea a while ago?
I found two lickle frogs and held them in my hand for a little bit. They leapt and breathed and that...
😀
The sunny walk home.
Got my old Saab back from the garage after 2 days while the owner tried to sort out steering vibration and auto box not being 'quite right'!
He'd resealed and balanced a wheel, swapped the backs to the front and had the gearbox open to double check all was ok before changing the oil................... That'll be £23 please 😀
Looking through ride london photos and remembering just how bonkers the weather got.
Bloke left my team today - I'd arranged his present of 20 assorted beers and a couple of books about trail/ultra running.
He gave me a bottle of homemade limoncello in return.
Sittiing outside at Tebay North on the M6 and I heard a plane approaching. Got a head-on view of a Tornado at 300 ft tuning right over my head, wings extended, stunning sight and sound!
Discovering that the nicely spoken lady holding ap's hand while he had laser eye surgery was probably MrsMC's mate who we are staying with on Sunday night! 😆
I found Mrs Crimble's bakewell slices in the shop. Used to be able to find them everywhere but seem to be in short supply now.
Sainsbury's in the free from section, everyone else seems to have dropped them 🙁
cutting my sky bill in half and gaining fibe broadband in the process - by bye multi room HD and Sports :}
Couldn't help but laugh after a cow nearly took the Land Rover door off.
Just about managed to shut it so that I didn't fall out during my snooze on the way back to the yard.
Local one-stop doing 3 x 660ml bottles of Peroni for £5, unfortunately they weren't chilled, the guy behind the counter gave me a tip that if I wrapped the bottles in wet kitchen roll and stuck them in the freezer they'd be chilled in a matter of minutes. Bloody well worked too.
Got my cholesterol check after 3 months on statins. Gone from 8.0 to 4.7. Am well chuffed. Best its been in about 20 years. 😀
The wildlife programme on BBC1 just showed someone pushing a wheelbarrow full of baby orang utans. 😀
I took the long way home thru the pentlands and ended up crushing thru the meadows counting yoga pant clad students....was a nice spin...
I recieved a smile/like on my internet dating profile. My expectations of this type of thing are no longer very high even so we ended up having a chat which was a welome distraction.
Local one-stop doing 3 x 660ml bottles of Peroni for £5, unfortunately they weren't chilled, the guy behind the counter gave me a tip that if I wrapped the bottles in wet kitchen roll and stuck them in the freezer they'd be chilled in a matter of minutes. Bloody well worked too.
This tip has made my day!
Made a new friend in Wentwood forest today. Black lab followed me from one end of the woods to the other - when I realised he wasn't going back I had to call the number on his collar. Cue a rather lengthy slog back up the DH track to find his owner. Cheers for the company Monty! 😀
My oldest lad absolutely having a ball on his first excursion to the big pool at the local swimming baths..
Squid and octopus 'salad' from the fishmongers..
A chance conversation yesterday leading to the unerringly pleasant and cheerful young lad from the corner shop taking over my girlfriend's flat when she moved out today..
oh and... err not today but a couple of nights ago, I bought this suit
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Met the pilot of this beautiful old thing, a BE-2C and he kindly
wheeled it out of the hanger just so I could get some photos!
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I did the nursery and school holiday club run this morning. Both boys were brilliant for their poor old dad who had got in from a gig /live band at 1245 this morning. Even alcohol free less than six hours sleep was not the freshest of starts!
After having 0 interest in my rocket I decided to keep it... Few tweeks and some new cranks and it's brilliant. Completely forgot why I wanted to sell it. Ace.
Had chocolate milkshake for lunch
I've realised if I pay 1.49 a month and change my username to enis I'll giggle every time I post.
went for a late evening run around a nice lake.
Phone call from the bike shop to say its ready.
Won £100 on a scratch card and colonoscopy confirmed I don't have Crohn's disease! And I'm off work tomorrow! It's turning into a good week.
6 beers and a G&T.
Cycled passed Honeysuckle Bottom Sawmill (Effingham Forest in Surrey Hills)and they have finally cleared the asbestos contaminated pile of rubbish near the entrance that's been there for months with warning tape all over it 😀
I made Swiss roll for the 1st time today & it was edible!
Knocked off work at 10pm and will be in Weymouth for 5 days playing before going back.
Going walking in Snowdonia all of next week, staying in a youth hostel.
Just realised it's Thursday, proper looking forward to it now! Half day at work tomorrow before the train down 😀
[i]I made Swiss roll for the 1st time today & it was edible![/i]
Yeah! I thought that was you on the Great British Bake Off! 😀
Passed an ECG test. Better than that - the nurse was fun and a bit rude.
All nurses are a bit rude. fact.
Seeing a bedraggled buzzard sat in a tree drying out after a downpour 😆 wings half stretched out looking very very pissed off.
Just made me smile 😀
Phonecall from a very helpful man at HMRC (yes, such people do exist!) telling me that they have sorted out the tax refund which went to the wrong bank details and I should get it next week. Plus compensation from HMRC and my bank for the fact it's taken 3 months to work out what happened to the money...