Today.

[Beachlover]

Have you got rid? The smell is usually piss from the living.

Had the camera trap out last night and copped for 19 video clips this morning. All of which could conceivably be used as evidence of me poisoning a fox and her two cubs, but not even a glimpse of Roland et al. I’ll run it for another couple of nights, but no sign of life so far.

 

[ElThomsono]

That's the washing machine back together, it only took 90 minutes in the end, it's previously taken me that long to replace the door seal when an under wire bra attacked it. Putting the seal on with it disassembled is effortless. Quick test with a rinse and spin and it hit 1,400 rpm without issue, I'm now working on a week's backlog of laundry.

Decided to go and buy a chicken for dinner, nope, it's 4pm and Waitrose will be shut (this bloody country I tell you). Change tack and do a toad in the hole. Nope, the sausages have been frozen. I stroll to Tesco and grab some and start cooking. Only one egg. Not walking to the shop again as I'm against the clock so I went down to the closer one in the car, nice and easy. First load of laundry almost finished now and dinner is coming along at just the right time, all I've eaten today is a bagel.

 

[ElThomsono]

There's a latent autistic man in our team at work, he has absolutely no idea what the boundaries of our roles are, and instead thinks we're here to fix anything at all related to traffic systems. He's constantly doing free work for our customers and competitors as a result, and our manager is very hands off (useless) so there's been no-one reigning this guy in for years. Well he's changed roles and is now moving to Field Services, which might be good as he needs the strict control of someone telling him where to go and what to do on a daily basis. In the meantime, he's sent an email round the support team talking about who will be picking up the VPN work he does. He's then spent his Saturday morning emailing forty (yes, forty) people telling them that I will be their point of contact for all this free configuration work he's been doing. I am not best pleased.

And it's difficult because he just genuinely doesn't understand why none of this is OK, but he's become such an uppity MF with no-one managing him that I have no sympathy left for him.

 

[Jaggededge]

You're going to be busy.

 

[Jaggededge]

What a fucking morning. I'm dog sitting for the next 3 days. Up early this morning. Breakfast. Washer on and off go in the car to a local spot. Off out into the woods, great. Get up to the furthest spot from the car and then it all went wrong. Got that grumbling feeling, farted and followed through. Nothing on me except a pocket of dog biscuits. Walked back down to the car like a china man walking barefoot on glass. Got home and cleaned up. Clothes in the washer. 2nd wash of day for a tight Yorkshire man. It's literally shit getting old.

 

[Beachlover]

Had to put up the laughter smilie as you will be looking back and laughing soon enough.

I say this because I had a dose of salmonella after I’d let some iffy sashimi incubate on a hot day before eating it in Hyde Park. I was pretty much unable to look at solids for a couple of weeks, then thinking it was over I drove to the allotment and on arrival had to dive out of the car and into the nearest bushes, letting fly in front of a couple of old boys and much to their amusement. At the time I recall thinking I should have just shat myself, told them I’d forgotten something and driven home.

 

[Jaggededge]

Yay. I've been out with the dog this morning without shitting myself. Result.

 

[E. By Gum]

Shit happens.

 

[ElThomsono]

Funny you should say, after an incident free month of toilet training, Saff shit herself twice yesterday, then Sully not long after.

Must be something going about.

 

[ElThomsono]

Our old house is back on the market, we paid £232k ten years ago, it's now up for £425 with only cosmetic changes, luda.

 

[Andylaser]

Result. Although anything else will now also be twice as expensive.

 

[ElThomsono]

I dunno, it's like people have been priced out of the market so the smaller cheaper places are now in high demand and cost way more than they should. Kind of how it's been with bungalows in this area for a while.

 

[Templogin]

Still coughing regularly enough that my ribs ache like hell. At least the burning sensation in my lungs has gone, but I have a head full of snot to contend with. Twenty seven years of smoking hasn't helped (asthma), but I gave up long enough ago to be in the rudest of health. There's no infection in head or chest, just over-production of mucus. Walking uphill has become a wheeze-fest.

 

[bushwacker]

Its not the coughing, its the coffin they carry you off in.

 

[Greg]

Joined a running club for the summer. Not run too much lately, and don't feel like I am doing enough walking so looking forward to getting started with that.

 

[Winnet]

Get out there and pound the trails.

Just back from a nice 7 miler around Westhill where I stay.

G

 

[Greg]

I have a lot of friends in this group so don’t mind paying up.

 

[ElThomsono]

Santander have launched their new banking app, on payday. Since it's a new connection all the users have to re-authenticate and the server isn't generating OTPs.

Which reminds me of the time our company made a transition and everyone got paid a day late, you would not believe the number of people who have their mortgage payment come out on payday itself.

 

[Templogin]

Is this Android, iOS or some other flavour of OS ET?

 

[ElThomsono]

Android, I tried it again later and it magically worked. Seems to be the same functionality with an new UI.

 

[5teep]

Which reminds me of the time our company made a transition and everyone got paid a day late, you would not believe the number of people who have their mortgage payment come out on payday itself.

Company I work for changed it's name a few months ago, cue weeks of aggro and stress as company bank accounts had to change, bills didn't get paid etc etc....
Last week an email, hey guys we're changing our name!! (again) "The new name will allow us to better compete in a competitive market!!" (wtf??)
This week, name change postponed, sorry but we're on it! - OK we're getting there you should all change your linkedin accounts to reflect the new name!
Anybody who actually works for a living in the company wouldn't know linkedin from a sausage link, but seriously, they think this is the most important shit to do?

 

[MaC]

It's stupidity pretending to be 'on the ball', and 'forward thinking'. Some wee 'bright spark' pr got a job and decided to validate it.

People actually like consistency, like the Royal Mail and the Post Office, not Consignia
Now they're changing it behind the scenes to International Distribution Services plc.....

 

[Greg]

Company I work for changed it's name a few months ago, cue weeks of aggro and stress as company bank accounts had to change, bills didn't get paid etc etc....
Last week an email, hey guys we're changing our name!! (again) "The new name will allow us to better compete in a competitive market!!" (wtf??)
This week, name change postponed, sorry but we're on it! - OK we're getting there you should all change your linkedin accounts to reflect the new name!
Anybody who actually works for a living in the company wouldn't know linkedin from a sausage link, but seriously, they think this is the most important shit to do?

That's a mess. We are rebranding some products - it makes sense in our case but it is a massive, massive undertaking.

 

[Saint-Just]

Successful rebranding are few and far between. It is a perilous exercise -the bigger (the more well known) the company/product, the greater the peril.

Very often it is a futile attempt at eradicating/erasing some sort of negativity associated with the brand. It is known then in marketing as « shifting deckchairs on the Titanic »

 

[Stew]

Get out there and pound the trails.

Just back from a nice 7 miler around Westhill where I stay.

G

A few weeks back I got out with no headphones again. I’ve been a fan of going without for sometime but when it had been laps of the rugby field in the dark while the eldest trained I needed something to distract me. It was so nice to go back to acknowledging where I was running, what I was seeing, smelling, feeling, etc. Embrace it, don’t detach from it.