Be Excellent To Each Other

I'm off to the Lakes now for five days, yay! There may not be internet though, boo! But yay - all the same!

Fabulous news, Dom.

And for a little while you can pretend that he's Maggie Simpson.

Oh man, that's fantastic news Dom! I'm so happy for the three of you, I was a bit worried there.

Ta for sending me off on my holiday with a huge soppy grin on my face! YAY!

Yay! Great to see this thread pop up... Fantastic news Dom!

That is awesome..

Brilliant news, Mr Dom.

Brilliantly news Dom.

Great stuff Dom and Co Keep us posted!

Got phone call about a short term contract yesterday - was very much a case of "Well, I'll talk to them, but I'm sure I don't have the skillset they are looking for." Interview this morning, job offer an hour later. Bit surprising, really, but I'm not complaining. And I will be able to add .NET 4 and MVC3 to the CV.

Well done!

And moving on from Coke and the Olympics to working on two projects, one involves Sellafield and the other a bunch of electricity suppliers.

With client trajectories like that, I might as well cut out the middleman and go straight to working for News Corp or Goldman Sachs.

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In my street we have problems with the drains meaning that we have to get them unblocked once a year or so.

The other week, the drain seemed to be blocked and a small amount of water came up into my garage. There was no harm done really and as next doors house is a council house, The lady there called the council as the inspection cover is on her property. The council referred it to Severn Trent Water who came out and removed a big block of concrete which was underground, in my drain.

They said I should be charged for this but the nice guy let me off and said he could put it down to the council to pay as he’d say the blockage was under next door. He even poured some disinfectant in my garage. How nice.

Anyway, this week I’ve received a letter from Severn Trent apologising for the flooding to my property and have paid me a cheque for £222 under the guaranteed standards scheme. I’ve looked into this and it seems that I’m entitled to a refund of my sewerage costs under this scheme!

Ace!

Yeah!

Just had a call, finally the house looks like it is being rented out, it took 3 months this time! It usually only takes a couple of weeks.
That and my raise today a good day for the Trooper bank account!

Jammy bastards, the pair of you! Anyone fancy taking me for a pint? The weather is lovely and there's a great pub over the road.

Olympic tickets arrived!

(Mens Football @ Old Trafford, UAE vs Uruguay and Team GB vs Senegal.)

So football can be doled out to other cities, but they had to build another velodrome in That London?

In the Olympics it's known as 'football' and so happens in 'London'.

Cockneys love them. They're known as 'the old lengthy tome'.

Let's take the rusty pikes for a spin round the lengthy.

Right, that's the visa applied for and the currency ordered. If they don't tell me to eff off I'll hopefully be in Baku by the week after next.

But Eurovision was LAST week!

He he, unfortunately they've been faffing around with stuff so the project was delayed. However I did see the office block I will be working in during the Eurovision.

Went skateboarding last night for the first time since I snapped my knee ligament. Only on small stuff but it felt good. Unsure now as to whether to proceed with ligament reconstruction as it'll mean eight months out at least and right now it feels more or less fine. I shall email my orthopaedic consultant for an opinion.

Fantastic mate.

I was "stoked". I even phoned up Woody and got him to order me in a cruiser that I'll set up with soft wheels an keep by the front door for quick kerb sessions and trips to the shops:

Noice!

Talking of soft wheels... there's nowhere down your way that still sells Big Spin Allstars is there? I've no seen them since MBC* shut a few years back & they're pretty much the only wheel usable on Scotland's shitey streets unless you step up to giant longboard wheels.
*I swear to god Mick must have had a portal to the 80s in the back, it's the only way he could still have them.

Don't know about those in particular but there are a few about these days. If you search for "filmer wheels" you should find your way to something suitable.

My best friend asked me to be his best man when he gets married in October. I'm chuffed!

YAY! Pick of the bridesmaids!

For the last two days, I've cycled to work.

My arse is killing me - totally not used to being sat on a saddle.

My legs are killing me - totally not used to actually doing work.

But I do feel pretty good - it's a great way of finishing the "waking up" process that a shower just can't quite complete.

Afternoon off. Really nice gym session. Really, really nice personal trainer. I think she's French. Of course I took her card. She actually offered a free session...

...and that'll be the year mark passed today. Odd to think that since I started gambling at around 19-20, I've never managed to go this long before. It's generally been manageable, but yesterday, for example, was a bitch to get through. I'm not good at having extended periods of time to myself, so I was glad to get back to work this morning.

Well done mate, that's great.

Congrats, DM. Impressive achievement.

Excellent stuff.

Good work!

Boo ya! You should have come out to the festival on Sunday, there was some ace dancing.

Nice one DM!

That is really awesome...

Nice one, DM! Bet you can't manage another year!

Brilliant mate. Keep it up though!

Cheers all. Seems the spammers seem to be helping me to celebrate by sending me lots of casino offers...



A bit more notice next time.

I REALLY hope Mimi/Russ/Myp/Ange read this.

Yep. We d

... Decided to go somewhere and I texted you 2 minutes later. If we'd been planning on going weeks in advance I'd understand

Maybe you should have mentioned them in your text.. I assumed 'we' was just you and Joans.
(I'd have still stayed at home anyway.. I was knackered)

Ha, no. They text me Sat morning to see if we wanted to go to the monkey Forest.