Be Excellent To Each Other

29th - 30th here, and that's only because I have to look after the Grimlet.

I love working Christmas.

You're working on Christmas Day? Sleeping in the office again?

Someone has to be on duty in case Beex needs rebooting. I thought it was your turn this year actually, DP.

It's the only logical thing to do after having a skinful with work people on Xmas Eve.

Christmas eve is a Saturday, isn't it?

Yeah, why not. Give me the admin password and I'll stand guard.

You no-tree fuck.

You hear me? You no tree fuck! You get splinters!

You're a mod. You should have the current admin password.

Nope.

24-27 inclusive. These two weeks are my 'Christmas' which is why I'm so fucked off going home to see my parents and have an early Christmas dinner have been cancelled due to illness.

What's more, we could have done Forza tonight after all.

I'm off: 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31 Dec, 1 and 2 Jan.

Have to come in for one day between Christmas & New Year.

My annual leave is reset in January though so that's cool, don't have to wait until April.

You wouldn't have had 12 people though.

We're still going out for food on the 28th, right?

Yes. See also the 29th and the 30th.

30th I have a 4:30 at Gauchos, so probably not.

28th I may yet take the morning off. However, I can take the pissgo out for a business lunch.

29th, Boisdale?

Yeah.

I tried to book a table at Hawksmoore for the 28th. It's only bloody closed.

Strike action?

Most likely.

Is this some sort of Bilderberg Group pre-meet?

Yes.

I can only make the 28th, as Maria gets home from Ireland on the 29th.

Er, no - I'm not working on the 28th. When did we talk about this?

Not sure. Very briefly in some other thread. Fancy tapas in Canary Wharf was mentioned.

Either way, I have a free night on the 28th, so I'm going for nice food with some of you bitches, even if I have to invade your houses.

WAIT.

These are all lunch dates.

How do you people suck so much at this?

Screw you; I don't work in Canary Wharf.

Aaand this is why the world's screwed. If the shadowy overlords can't even arrange a lunch date. I'm note sure how they're going to replace Merkel with a lizard monster.

Lizard monster too busy eating digital ants on an iPad.

I believe that if you refer to your Outlook, you have a meeting on the 28th with the partner of a firm of canary wharf accountants, who specialise in Internal Audit for insurers, in respect of areas including, (but not limited to) risk management, and you feel that this would be a useful contact to keep in touch with.

Meanwhile, I have failed to secure bookings for anywhere ultra-fancy in Chicago (having left it late through ineptitude). My hopes now lay with Next's daily release of tickets via Facebook.