Be Excellent To Each Other

Heh, nice one. Not a piece of Americana I'm tempted to try out sometime, regardless of how romantic the image or how cool the trains and landscapes are.


Obligatory song.

Perkies, that's an excellent outcome from the cab company - very quick too.

I'm perhaps being too suspicious in thinking the punishments were not actually handed out.

I quite like this house. Actually, moving to Rawdon wouldn't be such a bad idea as I know the schools are good, there's a bus to Leeds or Yeadon, the cricket club is pretty smart and there's supermarkets nearby. Only downside would be a commute into work, but that's pretty much anywhere that isn't Shipley, or Bingley.

They are fairly harsh punishments.

I want to go and work for them.

It doesn't say if it's their first offence or whether those punishments are in line with company policy. Still, if only they'd done their job properly in the first place.

1) There is a Vauxhall owner living nearby.

2) The second and third bedrooms need to be gutted and totally redecorated. Completely. Nothing must be left.

It is the north. The interior decoration is, for most places, politely, fucking gopping. See my edit. It's very close to an ex girlfriend of mine's parents though, so sneaking that fact past MrsA might be tricky.

I thought you were never less than 5 minutes walk from an ex girlfriends parents? Or are the rumours untrue?

You should buy my house. Commute to work would suck but it's great for the quiz.

You need to replace your toilet roll.

Superb.

Why does your bedroom have one way glass panels all up one wall? Are you "sex people"?

Wardrobe doors. Not mirrored

Bobby and MrsA seem to think it is true.

TV in the corner? WTF dude?

Hmm, I enlarged the photo of your living room CSI style and found this picture of you and a famous celebrity proudly displayed:

I really, really, like that yellow in the living room.

Really nice gaff there Cras, I particularly *love* the garden!

That's orange. At least on my monitor.

Did you fix the door, or is it remaining as a kind of art installation?

I replaced the door - hung a new one with my own two hands. It doesn't close, but that's just a minor detail.

The Telegraph's most amazing sport moments of 2012:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/975126 ... -2012.html

I cannot believe that news report was written sans puns. Surely something like: "Criminals who thought they had a golden opportunity in making a sweet deal on plundered syrup came to a sticky end when the saps were..." etc. C'mon Beeb, try harder!

Bloody hell. Still mega busy but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel now.

Couple more days (well 1.5 now) and I'm off for Christmas.

Sorry I've negelcted you all.

Just saw Geoff Capes in Asda!

Fuck yeah!

Hard to miss.

Meanwhile in Canadia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE0Q904g ... r_embedded

Meanwhile in the Youtube thread more like.

No, it was in Montreal.

Seen it!

Anyone know a cheap-ish way of getting MS Office? Cheaper than just walking into PC World, and more expensive than warez. Thanks.

My company (and if we do, I imagine every company does) has this link through the IT department to get it for a tenner.

Note that isn't buying it though, technically it's a copy that you can use at home while you're working for the company.

I shall ask. Only slight snag is we don't have an IT department, merely an IT "guy" who appears once a week, goes into the server cupboard and makes lots of phonecalls on the landline in there, and then goes away again.

Trooper?

He does appear in a different and more outlandish car every week, so could be.
I don't think that deal will be suitable, as the user of it is not me.

Have I missed a yay? Well done!

Doesn't look like it from IMDB - also, I think she carked it at the end of the first one. It also looks like Scarlet isn't in it.

On the plus side it has red ninjas, Rattlers, Firefly, Roadblock, Tunnel Rat, Lady Jaye and more original GI Joe goodness.

I recently got my sadness on with a relatively newly made cartoon version, GI Joe Revolution or some such. It was 10 parts of 8 minutes each, on Youtube. Very good stuff.

A server cupboards. I sometimes miss sitting in those for three hours interspersed with regular trips to the bathroom to stand around for five minutes looking at the ceiling to make it look like I'm doing something.

There's two deals a company can get from Microsoft, the Home Use Plan (which is the one where you're using it under license, and costs about a tenner) or the Employee Purchase Plan - which is a real purchase not licensing, and usually gets you a discount, but nowhere near the discount you get with the HUP, for obvious reasons.

So, my new office is on Kensington High Street, which, while lovely, is ridiculously expensive. Like £11.50 for a salad for lunch expensive (no, I did not buy it!). So, I know that I'm going to need to start taking my own lunches. But...

...I'm already mahusively struggling with the alarm going off at 6:30am, rather than my previous freelance working from home oh-boy-was-I-lucky 9am(ish), and doing the fairly long commute, and getting home late, and generally being KNACKERED the whole time. So fitting in time for running (which I haven't done since I started) and making packed lunches and doing anything around the flat (that I didn't realise how much time I had to do before this!) is starting to feel overwhelming (read: impossible).

Any tips / tricks / time savers / money savers on how the hell to adjust to this thing called proper job permanent employment?!?!

*collapses*

I like sitting in the server cupboard occasionally, it's warm and makes a comforting whirring noise. I can see how it would unsatisfying as a job though.

Hey! I don't program hardware, I program people.

He's programmed us to give him lots of money for not bothering him while he does fuck all.

[edit - this is a joke, obviously, in case he's reading]

Oh, it is me.

Pay me to steal it for you.

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