10 days solid of working my arse off in Hong KongFucking knackered.
But on a Cathay Pacific plane, about to embark on 24 hours of food, movies, booze, and sleep.
Can’t wait to see the Spaniard!
Welcome home!Is this thing working?
Edit: yes it is. Just had to switch to Edge to post.
I'm at the end of a large project which goes live on Tuesday. Then there's a lot of work around getting dashboards and reports set up, but if I play this right I'm going to be left with the stuff on my job description not taking much time out of my day. I'll then be free to fart about with the stuff I actually enjoy doing.
I'm going to be rather flat out til Tuesday though, and depending on how well I've done rather busy after that until I've mopped up all the niggles.
Depends on the thing.
Hold it up to your webcam.
I’m off to That London this weekend
To do general presenting and hob nobbery at the excel center. I’m tired already.
I'm also in that London today
for a football match though, not BUSINESS. Well, I say London, zone 3 s*uth of the river.
Should have stayed at home
Wandering back to Liverpool Street I stopped for an impromptu pint. £7.40, fucking hell London
The one benefit of BUSINESS
is that I won’t be paying for all that nonsense.
Don't blame us
for your poor choices
The average price of my pints in the last week
Is less than £5.50
Milan was more expensive.
you should have come by to say hello
I wouldn't have answered the door, I'd have been asleep, but it's the thought that counts
Hippo bapsday
matey!
thank you
futureman!
Happy birthday
If Scoff is right!
He was!
Thanks all
If it is your birthday, happy birthday
Consider me leaving you well alone a present
the greatest gifts
are the ones money can't buy, like this
Why did we not have an impromptu bash
...
It was actually14
But felt like 24.
I know that feeling
i am in the Azores at the moment (windy and 4 seasons every 45 minutes)
Best innovation in air travel yet: Pay £20 to guarantee a seat next to you is empty. Poor man's business class. £35 for the whole row. But not much more expensive than buying a seat. Yay for heavily subsidised airlines.
I do find it deeply weird to be 1 hr behind the UK time-wise, i am really nor used to going that way.
I wore the wrong socks today
I have very warm feet. I'm glad I'm in the office on my own. My wife scoffs at my separate winter socks and summer socks, but I know I'm right.
MrsJam's dad has just died unexpectedly.
He'd been unwell but we weren't expecting him to kark it.
Oh bugger, sorry to hear that :(
I hope she's doing as ok as can be expected.
Bugger.
.
Oh dear
Sorry to hear it
Fark!
My condolences to you both.
oh bugger.. that's not the thing.
. ..
And just to compund pxy's recent anniversary
this morning BaceFook reminds me that it is Katie's birthday. Fucking hell, the last few years have been a bit shit, eh?
they really have
.
Tomorrow, aye.
Epic sadface. I hope you're kicking arse somewhere, Bees.
I was going to say that it is tomorrow
and then remembered that you live in the fucking future.
GMT+13 baby!
Well, at least until the clocks go back
and with ours going forward
we get 2 hours closer. clever innit?
It's the uncertain number of weeks
when we're 12 that are the confusion
happy birthday bees
Wherever you might have ended up
In the SAND!
I'm not helping much, am I dad?
no,
but I know a man who can
in an unrelated matter
my new corporate overlords have decided to actually enforce the 'use your carried over holiday days before the end of March' rule that until now we've sort of used flexibly. I only found that out yesterday. So I have an unexpected mandatory corporate-policy long weekend.
See you in April suckers!
a belated birthday gift
from the company beancounters!
Custom and practice is a thing.
oh, I'm not complaining, I went to Saffron Walden for a bit, then put a shelf up
although I am complaining about having to log in on my day off because the useless bastards haven't paid me again.
Up to Scotland tonight, back to London Sunday night, office Monday, off to Hong Kong Tuesday
I thought HK was going to be a 4 days there.
It ends up being 9. Plus the flying.
It’s like the old days.
I do like HK
there is an off chance i'll be doing a china trip in the next year.
HK is always fun.
Mainland China is fucking hard work.
this place won't keep me logged in
I have deleted everything and all that.
try explicitly logging out
then deleting all cookies, doing a ctrl+F5, then logging in again
I think a few of us had this problem a little while back but can't remember how exactly we solved it, seems to be certain browsers have conniptions
this is on my phone
It's not a major problem unless people start posting loads
LOADS
...
posting huge loads you say?
just spurting them?
you could try using a jiffy bag I suppose
I imagine a normal envelope wouldn't really work in the postal system
I believe “spaffing” may be the word you’re looking for.
Possibly “up the wall”.
still
could be worse, those astronauts went up to the ISS for eight days and only got back home eight months later
Everyone should've
worn monkey masks for when they got out.
Fair point .
I’ve got it easy.
In other news…
I see it’s five years today since we lost Nik…
I don't like this.
.
it's been a weird 5 years
..
Indeed
I thought it was about now, and saw Edwina post on Insta
Fucking hell. Still miss that old bastard.
I got a £100 prepay card for switching broadband
so I've got myself stalker 2, RoboCop rogue city, and have pre-ordered atomfall
Just need to find the time to actually play them now.
good thing
you weren't planning on using Heathrow today
Yeah. Thankfully I flew out on Tuesday
And I’m not back until Friday, by which time things should be back to normal!
Did we all forget Alistair's birthday?
..
Amy remembered
which was lucky... as she was buying the cake
H-Al-py birthday!
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Well, in that case,
we all chose her as our representative, and it is from all of us.
Yes.
Sorry!
apparently so. happy birthday Alistair
It's my birthday now
happy birthday to you
..
Happy birthday new_matt
If that is even your real name
I remember a new_matt
but that was 20+ years ago, this must be old_matt
happy birthday! oh that means mine's coming up
and happy birthday to COVID
lockdowns as well
Matty birthday!
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Thanks and Happy Birthday!
...
I've been in London for weekend
to see my favourite band repeatedly- Sunday at the 100 Club especially was an astonishingly good gig.
I do seem to have rather upsettingly picked up the novel coronavirus, though so far it's just hitting me like a bad cold (I've had it worse before)
is the 100 club still laid out oddly?
Like landscape instead of portrait? And well done celebrating the 5-year COVID revival, hope you feel better soon.
it is!
they'll never fix it, because History. There's also three large pillars about 1m from the stage. And the stage is shin height. Objectively it should be a terrible venue It's fucking great
I tried to reply
but got a weird 403 error, let's see what happens
[edit] ok, it works now, I was going to say 'yes, it's nice to be able to see the whites of the bands' eyes. less nice for them though I imagine'.
Then I got distracted and started virtually wandering round Soho. There's a French restaurant on Dean Street I went to loads 20-odd years ago that is amazingly still there. The duck breast with dauphinoise potatoes was top notch in 2001.
It's probably gone off by now though
..
oh i passed that
and thought it looked interesting. Had pre-show beers in the Nellie Dean (and pizza from the place across the road because the pub kitchen had a lack-of-staff issue)
I think that used to be the place they did Popbitch pub quizzes back in the day
Haven't been to Soho for years
I shaved my sack recently. Twas easier than I expected.
I finally got round to booking a vasectomy and the instructions say I have to be freshly shawn, so I thought I'd better practice.
The reason I mention it is because it reminded me of pxy, oddly enough.
I cut my balls twice, the first time with a cut throat razor.
Also, I want to let you know that I regretted my vasectomy for about a decade.
I mention this as it is not a common position, but you should consider it.
here
My youngest is 6 1/2, it's not a glib decision.
..
Nor was mine.
I thought I had it all sorted out.
On the "can't have any more kids" theme
or something different?
Vale pxy, obviously
But unfortunately, this is making me think more of Webclam
he's been on my mind
'cause I did a "5 years ago" reminiscence thing on the socials. next week is 5 years of him and zinc stoat both going the same day
Kinell.
:(
'kinell
doesn't even start to cover it :-(
She was ill but he really did not have any business dying.
It was bollocks.
It is bollocks.
yup
big sweaty ones
To be clear, I am not saying she had business dying,
but we understood comorbidities, but Pxy was just a healthy middle-aged man and it hit hard.
I lost another friend about 2 weeks later. It is why I get so angry with the anti-vax shitheels.
yeah
I don't think it was ever established that 'vid was even involved in her going, she was much sicker than anyone had realised until about a week before and it was the shittiest timing imaginable
this
I hope you've gone through the crowd scenes
frame by frame to find yourself.
You don't use the word "sheriffdom" very often.
In Scotland you have to list the relevant sheriffdom when applying for probate.
What silly words did you use recently.
my degree is introducing me to a lot of ridiculousness
"medallionise my data lake" is my household's current euphemism of choice for taking a dump
I find myself saying things like 'A bit tachy' or 'pyrexic' a lot
and honestly 'Heart beat's a bit fast' or 'has a temperature' would be absolutely fine.
I guess technically even dead people 'have a temperature'
..
Everything above
Absolute zero does
And, indeed,
at absolute zero.
Zero is a valid degree of heat.
as, technically,
are negative temperatures Kelvin, due to the way temperature is defined
basically, pew pew lasers
negative Kelvin?
fucking physicists making stuff up again
the only negative kelvin I'm aware of
is the JJ Abrams Trek movies
Or MacKenzie.
The cunt.
according to a dept meeting on EDI issues today
there are two genders in our department:
male and non-male
points for trying, I guess
technically accurate
more accurate than most anyway!
How’s it all going?
Probate is a bit different in Scotland.
Not too bad all things considered
I need to figure out how we treat a trust thing they set up for their house a few years ago.. and then fill in some forms.
We've tracked down all the vital bits.
It was fun to use the word 'absquatulate' recently,
and today I made up a word do describe what the orange manbaby's fans are all taking - stupidium.
that's a good one
.....
stupidum surely
'cause they're allergic to that extra i :D
Hehehe
i do find myself using "outwith"
which I'm reliably informed is not in common use outwith Scotland
I use it a lot too
And everyone who isn’t from Scotland finds it weird.
Some of us spent enough time in Scotland
to realise it's one of the better words in the English language
yeah I only fairly recently learned it's a Scottish thing
and now I use it at every conceivable opportunity
great word
It gets used in lawyering
but otherwise, I agree.
So Office365 is dropping Publisher
which is the only reason I use MS Office as only Publisher handles Publisher files.
Looks like I'll finally have to shift to Affinity.
i've literally never heard of it
which seems odd.
Office 365?
Publisher?
Affinity?
MS publisher
...
You've never heard of publisher?
It's desktop publishing and has felt like an unwanted child for a long time, it's development doesn't really match the rest of the office suite. It doesn't surprise me that MS are dropping it.
Only publisher will open publisher files though, so it's difficult to move away from once you start with it and because it's part of office some people latch on to it and stay with it.
I actually quite like it. Imagine Word but you could actually put stuff where you wanted and it'd stay there.
yeah..i mean i must have tried it
but i'd always use powerpoint if you MUST have people on ms using it.
you've got 18 months to find a replacement
According to this, there's at least three suggested replacements capable of opening .pub files, buried right at the bottom of the article of course. Scribus seems worth a punt, seeing as it won't cost you anything to try it
Nice, I'll give it a go
Thanks
Nipples &1/2 nipples in the context of pipe ends
Flanges for vacuum components. Gussets on chambers and skirts etc.
Engineering is clearly populated by immature people.
I don't know whether it's silly
But every weekend I say "cricket" a lot. Then because I am of a certain age and because that's what we did when I played, I find myself saying it in a terrible impression of the way Geoffrey Boycott used to say it. Cricket wicket.
And while Sunday morning nets does reduce my lie in/lazy Sunday breakfast opportunities, it does increase my sit-in-the-sun-at-the-farmshop opportunities.
In Newcastle you can buy a pint of beer
That is 4.3% and £9.
I went for something else, but glad they warned me
Which establishment was THAT in
so I know to avoid it. Wish I'd known you were in the Toon, I've been in Gateshead all weekend.
the Broad Chare
I was in and out in a matter of hours for a meeting, which finished early enough to let me have lunch.
Their other pints were £4.80
I was going to say "Pudding Chare is where it's at"
but then realised that hasn't been true for about 20 years, and so I went and had a look on google maps at the pub I spend a ridiculous amount of time in back in the day which closed down not long after I left and was just abandoned. Streetview is still of the abandoned pub but it turns out that it reopened in June and they got the old DJ back.
It did. I walked past it just after it
had opened and it was a nice surprise. Didn't go in though.
Oh that place,
aye, I've never been in because it calls itself a gastropub which can get in the river.
it's very nice inside.
..
So it should be
if weak ale is nearly a tenner :)
Newcastle-upon-Tyne? ?
I remember when the price went up from 99p a pint to £1.09 and there was hell on because the drunks could only get nine pints for a tenner instead of ten.
Racinf is going rather poorly for me.
I think I have won about 16p so far.
I'd forgotten that was on
I will look I again tomorrow