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Long Week

So, the long week of dullness begins.

In Andover Tuesday night till Saturday morning, but working there Wednesday to Friday. Then over to Tonbridge in Kent on Saturday morning, probably early morning, to work on moving someone's Progress system from their old server to their new one, and all the headaches that entails. There from Saturday to some as yet unknown time on Monday - yes, Monday - so I can be there when all the people arrive and try and use the thing. Then (hopefully) back to Andover to work there Tuesday to Thursday as usual, then back home Thursday night.

What the hell I'm going to be doing over the weekend when I'm not working is a complete mystery to me.

Joy.

[insert witticism here]

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Friday Haiku

Has it been a whole
Week since my last entry? Guess
I had nowt to say.


Car damaged, had it
Looked at. In wrong area,
So was waste of time.

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Friday Haiku

Hate interruptions
When I'm doing something or
Trying to think. Bah!


Always given work
That I can't do remotely.
Why do they do that?


Big credit card bill
This month. I'm sure it will be
Worth it in the end.

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Some Tests

Thanks to Phoemeister for bringing the first three to my attention!


"69% scored higher (more nerdy), and 31% scored lower (less nerdy)." So I'm not that nerdy, it would seem.


"57% are cooler, and 43% are more of a loser than you." Middle of the loser road, good.


"73% are more weird, 10% are just as weird, and 17% are more normal than you!" I'm a strangely normal person, then, according to this test at least.

And now...

Your alter ego is Draco Malfoy. Proud and selfish, you look set to follow in your father's footsteps and serve the Dark Lord.

Draco Malfoy........70% Severus Snape.......65% Ron Weasley.........65% Remus Lupin.........65% Hermione Granger....60% Harry Potter........60% Sirius Black........55% Albus Dumbledore....45% Peter Pettigrew.....30% Lord Voldemort......20%

Your Harry Potter Alter Ego Is...? created with QuizFarm.com

How the hell did they reach that conclusion?

"Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing." - Dave Barry (1947 - )
(This has nothing to do with tests, it just made me laugh)

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Filling In A Space

I don't seem to have much to say just at the moment.

This working from home lark has it's compensations. Like watching things on video or DVD when there's no actual work for me to do. A few old episodes of Farscape, the first ep of Desperate Housewives just to see what it was all about, and the film The Others. I managed to grasp the twist in the tale just before they revealed it, which makes a change; I'm usually a lazy viewer.

Pretty much everything else is just plodding along the same as usual.

As a new thing to comment on, I am in fact beginning to seriously think that it would be a good idea to, y'know, move out. I've heard people actually do that in, like, real life. Allegedly.

"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving." - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)

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Friday Haiku

Working from home is
Much like in our old office
But more distractions!


Week's start: felt bad. I'll
Be discombobulated
For quite some time yet.

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The Blower's Daughter

For those who haven't heard it, here are some links to video streams of the Damien Rice AOL session of 'The Blower's Daughter'.

Windows Media Player, High Quality
Windows Media Player, Low Quality
RealPlayer, High Quality
RealPlayer, Low Quality

Seems Damien was in love with the daughter of his clarinet teacher, hence "blower's daughter". He wrote a love song for her, but by the time he actually sang it to her, he realised his feelings for her had changed. But it can also be about having feelings for someone that are not returned.

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Gym'll Miss It

Having to unpack a load of stuff from the office out of my car into the flat in Andover took just long enough that it was too late to get to the gym. I finished just before quarter to nine... by the time I'd have got in there I'd have had to leave because they close at ten.

Bah.

And I've been feeling very down all afternoon while driving. Painful truths are, well, painful. Me and the universe, we're not talking. I'm very disappointed.

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love." - Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey

"Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments." - Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

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Friday Haiku

Long drive. Bad weather.
Back to work was horrible.
Glad week is over.

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Home Office

So, my boss is taking on a huge amount of work here in Andover, which means he's not going to be in the office in Sheffield much, if ever. He doesn't see the need to pay almost £5000 rent for the year if it's not going to be used much, since I'm only there two days of the week myself.

He's suggested I work from home. While this does involve a five second commute and access to all my stuff (PC, music, DVDs etc) when things are slow, it does have the problem of me actually really having to make myself work. Plus, to dial in using the laptop I work on would involve taking up the home phone line during office hours.

He has put forward the idea of installing another phone line... but I really don't like the idea of having to move stuff around and out of my already cramped room in order to accomodate a BT engineer. I'd have to move my entire desk and everything on it, plus the small set of drawers on one side of it and the bedside table on the other. It's just too much effort... so we'll be going with the use of our own phone line instead, for the moment at least. The dial-in number is a free 0800 number, so cost fortunately isn't an issue.

We'll see how it turns out, I guess.

"The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the wall of our own homes." - Harold B. Lee (1899 - 1973)

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New One

Happy New Year to everyone.

"I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions because I don’t think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you’ve got a problem, you need to fix it now." - Clay Aiken

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