(08:22:57) is like a tightly coiled spring.. that's been left on the beach for two weeks. I love the smell of WD40 in the morning. In a bit: a course.
(10:26:36) is on a course about, well, something. It's all rather complicated, but I could do with them picking up the pace a bit. I'm a poor student.
(11:52:48) finds it difficult to be concise in these status updates.
(13:32:46) is all done with the course - an hour early, so time to sort my emails before I start breaking more stuf.
(14:27:54) is still amazed that Heart & Magic have more listeners than Capital.. it used to be ~the~ station to listen to in London.Bring back Kremmen!
(16:08:07) is all done at the desk today..leaving it in a bit of a mess while I go and bust up a server bigtime. My eye still aches a bit. Is it ague?
(18:32:00) is nearly home, and in really good time, despite scheduled work due to finish after home time. It's rather warm, but surprisingly pleasant.
(19:03:18) is warmer inside than it is out. If that makes sense.
(07:16:45) is late to the office.. worse that I'm working at home today! Darn you, mistagged "Always Something There" (Naked Eyes, not Human League!)
(07:28:33) "Coupon printing is not permitted in a virtual environment." I've not encountered that before. Why does barcode printing need a special app?
(09:37:14) is catching up with @petecooper's bleepshows while trying to fix an unexpected oddity and translating user manuals from German. Need coffee!
(11:59:24) is done with the translation..now being beset by Windows Messenger messages from work about stuff nobody seems to be able to explain. Great.
(12:23:26) is considering becoming the office despot.
(13:56:15) My eye feels bruised. Time for a tuna & salad cream & cheese toastie & coffee. Then.. change control. Oh joy. I may just grow that beard...
(16:33:28) will quit & have a quick tidy & shower once this last change request has gone in. I've a crazy day planned tomorrow.. spilling into Friday!
(17:25:29) is all done.. disconnected from the Work Umbilical.. now to shut down the computers & have some family time. And a cup of tea. And a shower.
(18:09:22) is predictable. Peanut butter on toast, I think.
(18:36:06) is crying with laughter at Failblog: http://failblog.org/page/9 [sorry if everyone on the internet already knows about this except me!]
(21:30:45) is off to bed, having tooled around with ping.fm for far longer than appropriate...
(07:55:46) suffered the rubbish motorway this morning, but now drinking coffee and planning the day. Work emails already tamed.. time for the details!
(10:44:56) RAR! Twitter's stopped texting me with the latest happening in World Of Tweets. I shall have this seen to, after bashing away at registries.
(15:39:34) wonders: how hard can it be to configure a system to send an email if a disk fails? HP clearly make it too complicated. Or I'm too thick.
(19:26:05) was going to send this from the coach, but Twitter has stopped working on by SMS now. Bah! I shall have some banana milkshake to compensate.
(19:35:02) Anyway, as I was saying, if it's not Flying Ant Day today, I'm fairly sure it will be tomorrow. Nasty little things. Bring on the seagulls!
(07:04:31) is up and showered... a little late by all accounts... Lenni's at school, Chris is off - hopefully off on our bikes later. Coffee time!
(08:36:53) robot rage, gladiators, cycle ride, Toys-R-Us window shopping: a boy's ideal summer holiday Monday...
(09:28:06) is pumping up the tyres and squirting WD40 onto the chains.. Chris & I are going on a bike ride... hope I can find the cycle path this time!
(10:34:40) is ambling round ToysRUs with Chris, after a gentle bike ride through the industrial area. Odd that there's free wi-fi here.. but cool!
(12:01:31) is home and all tired out. We cycled 3.7 miles, and did some errands on the way. Chris's first 'proper' cycle ride.. another momentous day.
(12:13:42) got an email from FriendsReunited.. "Why not add yourself to these places? Bridge of Don, ABERDEEN.." (etc). Because I've never been there?
(20:15:59) is officially off to bed (after selecting and flattening clothes for the remainder of the week). Thank you, Monday, that will be all.
(08:28:48) is awake, barely. My justification for playing HalfLife 2 until 1.30: it's a value for money thing; if I don't, I'm wasting the box price :D
(11:16:42) is watching the Brainiac Sports Day.. definitive study material for A-level sports science students everywhere. Hilarious.
(11:57:29) What I use my i600 for: to confirm that Wayne & Waynette Slob did, indeed, have a daughter called 'Spudulika'. I've never had a Spud-u-like.
(13:33:48) has just put a little light up in Lenni's room.. long overdue, since her bunk beds cast a massive shadow! Now: sparkying, coffee & laundry.
(16:38:29) I've been a-blogging: Cave! http://tinyurl.com/6aos7v
(16:48:20) I've been a-blogging: Daily Photo of the Day : hoop-la! http://tinyurl.com/5u4puc
(20:10:18) is FAIL at needlework. No badges sewn on Chris's cub sweater during Top Gear. I was going to break out heavy machinery; now Beth's doing it!
(08:49:17) is listening to The Eureka Years, drinking coffee and relaxing. I'm fortunate to have such pleasant Saturday mornings. Later: Chris's party.
(09:27:39) they're digging up the main road again.. there's a machine that sounds like a loud, giant, unremitting vacuum cleaner. It's a noisy weekend.
(09:30:08) Shower tune: Sister Sledge - Lost In Music. It's in my All Time Top Ten Songs. Now enjoying Cake - Guitar. Feel Good Saturday!
(19:06:48) is home after a busy day.. Christopher's birthday party (caving at Dell Farm - http://snipr.com/dellfarm cool!) & mic installing at church..
(19:09:31) whoops!) and and and ... I saw my first 'new' coin today - only a 1p, but I like the design. SHINY. http://snipr.com/coinij
(21:08:59) has just finished a couple of hours of NSD editing. I fear I will need several bucketloads of sound effects for one of these sketches...
(10:24:43) has had a good morning so far, despite the alarm clock not waking me and Twitter being unavailable for my drivellings thus far. FREE MUG!
(12:37:22) doesn't feel like any progress has been made either with Virtual PCs or HP Systems Insight Manager. Most frustrating. I *will* prevail..
(15:40:44) has a Virtual Windows 2000 machine running on Windows XP! Trivial, you may think.. not when it's off a Ghost image. http://snipr.com/ghost2k
(07:41:31) is writing interview questions.. I have a feeling I'll be asking 'em, so I'd better make them ones I can answer myself!
(09:56:26) is back from the shortest fire drill ever. Why do people laugh at me when I put a day-glo vest on? Am I a comedy fire warden?
(10:27:18) loves the way facilities management works here; second time round the loop to get a laser toner cartridge recycled. Bureaucracy 1 : james: 0
(10:38:09) loves the way I can call up Lyreco and ask for free stuff, but they'll not send it unless I order it through the 'procurement' 'system'. 2:0
(11:01:17) can't remember if my boss told me he was going to be away this week. This may mean I'm in charge. Uhoh. POWER RUSH!
(12:59:15) is awaiting the return of my colleague (ooh.. this week he's an UNDERLING! POWER!) with a sachet of mustard. If he fails me, he will die.
(13:50:31) Mustard update: FAIL. It'll have to be McDonalds barbeque dip.
(14:16:25) is on a conference call..waiting for the meeting to start, since they've had to move rooms. Kinda disembodied & odd. Bring on Google Lively!
(14:39:01) has had the conference call interrupted by a fire alarm. Now is a good opportunity to make some tea...
(16:38:09) is all done on the phone and is wrestling with virtual PCs and translating German manuals. This is, indeed, the life.
(16:52:07) is going to dispatch himself home through the medium of the Internal Post.
(17:22:09) To write comedy, one needs a good memory. And funnyness. And an armoury of amusing words. That may not be all; it's what I just thought of.
(17:31:27) is Listening Again to a David Quantick programme about the mix tape. My children will look back & say 'you did ~what~ with C90 cassettes?'
(17:37:49) still makes CD compilations, mind. They take me days. In case you're interested: Radio 4, 11.30 today. End of side A.(gap) (leader) (click)
(07:41:23) Yay! My cold is nearly gone! I have plans... but first, woo! I just discovered How Stuff Works does a podcast! FAB. http://snipr.com/syskpod
(07:45:24) Google Lively.. heard it on Digital Planet. I find myself reading T&Cs of so many sites to see if Chris can play them. Not this one. :(
(07:45:57) "You may not use the Services and may not accept the Terms if (a) you are not of legal age to form a binding contract with Google" Scary.
(09:34:50) may make August an Internet Distractions-Free month. Twitter, blog & emails stay.. mailing lists & Facebook go.. a chance to rationalise.
(12:05:18) is running crunchy VBScript to rename 22,000 WAV files based on XML fields. It may just come in handy. If it doesn't break horrendously.
(12:19:32) is still sniggering at @petecooper's earlier twitpic (http://twitpic.com/49pc) I may have to print and laminate it.
(16:49:05) is stil getting angst from an emo server. Man, it's got issues. It just doesn't want to talk... darn tweenage ProLIant DL380 G4s...
(19:15:09) is home & dry (after garden watering - entertaining for the children at least).. feedings, then a brief interlude of This and, indeed, That.
(20:54:39) wants to buy the guinea pigs a fez each: http://www.monkeygoods.com/images/fez.jpg
(21:38:01) has worked out a way to get podcasts to my phone from the mac.. Mocha FTP server (http://is.gd/VjT) on the i600 & Cyberduck on the mac. Heh.
(10:05:30) is taking 5, having at least got the inbox down to no undead emails. Lunch with my big bro to look forward to..hoping I'll be awake by then!
(15:20:27) is back at his desk; speakers had to be unplugged to put the fan on. Carbon footprint reduction through lack of power sockets. It's a start.
(17:22:20) is tweeting during a #Lugradio discussion of Twitter. Ver good. I may have a dull life, but live in hope that something interesting happens.
(18:58:49) is home and sniffling. My mac mini is running hot, as am I. I'm in the mood for own-brand-Malibu and own-brand-Coke. Alcohol's bad, m'kay?
(19:51:03) Where have my old tweets gone? *cries*
