Thursday, April 30, 2009

My land-line phone's battery dies after 1 hour of talking, this is a great blessing on dull, endless conference calls.. *click* [silence] :)

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Keep on getting angry calls from Amazon customers who have called customer service on 0844-3570155 and been put through to me! *sigh*
End of Wednesday's work is here. Three cheers for the end of Wednesday's work. Isn't Wednesday evening the new Thursday (meaning Friday)?
working on code written by an imbecile - 134K of uncommented functions manipulating a database table consisting of 32 two-letter field names

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

... the whole house just shook and lurched in a sickening way... wtf? Earthquake?
...woken at midnight after just falling into a deep sleep by a misled (but enthusiastic) alarm clock, then at 6am by loudly vomiting cat...

Monday, April 27, 2009

Thai basil aubergines, sesame spinach and noodles :)


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... hurray, it's the weekend! What? Wait, it's what? Monday? But, but, the weekend? Finished? When? Oh balls... yes... I remember now :(

Friday, April 24, 2009

*deep sigh* what's the point in sitting at your desk even, on a Friday afternoon? It's almost impossible to concentrate on work...

Curry for lunch :)


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The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground

Thursday, April 23, 2009

... happy St George's day... an excuse to drink Bomber and eat pies then...

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

trying a different route to work due to tube problems... Into the unknown...
trying a different route to work due to tube problems... Into the unknown...
got to love london, first coversation snippet i hear: "...going to use the dna from the toothbrush..." *sigh*
on way to london, train doesnt smell of poo, forgot my oyster card, buffet car (wine shop) closed...
... preparing mentally for a trip to London...

About to eat the last survivor of the xmas chocolate massacre


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Monday, April 20, 2009

... just drank a pint of home-made, chilled, fresh raspberry milkshake... mmmmmmm...
... staring wistfully at the blue skies beyond the top of my monitor...
... having chest x-rays and blood tests for lunch...

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Average day in lancaster...


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... off into sunny Lancaster to buy some vegetables, perhaps, to drink a beer in a garden, perhaps.

Soft boiled eggs and soldiers for breakfast :)


Yum, one of my favourites, and eaten outdoors! Ah, summer.. ;)

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Friday, April 17, 2009

... that's it folks, it's here... the one, the only, the weekend!
... just watching Nimba the cat trying to catch, kill and eat an enormous queen wasp - it's like car-crash TV...

Time for a pint of chocco-banana milkshake...


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... tempted to go to the White Cross for a lunchtime pint in the hazy sunshine... :)
... only 5.75 hours until the weekend :)

Thursday, April 16, 2009

... walked around town, exhausted myself, now have pains and misery and fuzzy head :( woe...

Mystery freezer meal today turned out to be thai curry... Winner :)


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... feeling a little bit better, but still a little bit ill, better do a little bit of work then I suppose...

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

... feeling mightily ill, pleurisy is playing up again, guts churning too - I blame the 10% pint of bitter at the YoHo last night...
... having solved a mystery, will now drink tea and eat some of the chewy granola bars that his wife made...

Monday, April 13, 2009

... bored of working, will perhaps start to drink beer instead...

Sunday, April 12, 2009

... Sitting in the sun, sipping beer, making lots of food for the easter 'pot luck' later

Friday, April 10, 2009

Thursday, April 09, 2009

... is it the Long Weekend yet?
... the waiting is over! Yes, here it is! Another exciting day of... work! Thrill as you operate a keyboard, marvel as you push a mouse!

Tuesday, April 07, 2009

... just bought a £1 mini TV remote and have been merrily turning off stupid TVs (through shop windows) around town. Ah, the small pleasures
... pre-lunch snack of hummus and mature cheddar on walnut bread with lemon and feta olives on the side...

Monday, April 06, 2009

... cold and raining again... normal service has been resumed... :(
... mystery lunch today - after the wife defrosted the freezer some old, mysterious tupperware were discovered. Ah, that's lunch then :)
... have the usual Monday morning fog in my head, it will clear by noon, but that really isn't helpful at the moment...

Friday, April 03, 2009

Thursday, April 02, 2009

... off to consume pies in town...
... ate too many chillis for breakfast and am now in extreme, temporary pain and feel dizzy...
... eating curried potatoes for breakfast... sometime it's just the correct thing to do...