Be Excellent To Each Other

Rest of the day passed off without any great incident. Apart from A LOT of drinking, a pub quiz, a gothy barmaid with astonishing boobs, and explaining to the father in law at 1am how I was intending to purchase Buxton FC as I just read a book about running a football club. Currently feel lots under the weather.

What is it with you and barmaids, Mali?

Apparently the bank have refused our Olympics ticket payment. Should be plenty of money in there, so I'm betting on "not our normal expenditure pattern". Dicks. Have to resolve by thursday when they'll try one last time.

I'm betting it's because they bring him booze and he has simple needs.

They think it is great that "I stopped a career as a racing driver to go and volunteer at the animal hospital, as that's what's most important. Do you have any pets? No way! I've a dog/cat/dinosaur like that, too! Here's a picture on my phone! Awesome!" and so on. Given my interactions with the 18-25 female demographic is almost exclusively paying them to bring me booze or to take their clothes off, I don't want to appear totally shallow.

Or maybe its because I put the wrong card expiry date in. Fuck.

I HAZ LIMPIC TIXETZ

(But you're still a dick - Mrs Tart)

how many and how $much ?

No idea. After the earlier farago, I called up and claimed my card had been stolen, and gave the same details (with the right expiry date). Man confirmed payment had been authorised over the phone but his system can't even see the amount. It's locked out to prevent people phoning just to ask.

Words can't express how little I want to be in work today.

Turn them sideways?

Me, too. I just want to spend some time in my house when I'm not asleep. Also, my router is broken.

2 pigeons are trapped on the balcony opuotside at work due to the netting. This is superior to doing accounts at the moment.

After last week's episode of my Friend's boyfriend telling a whole table at a wedding how he photoshopped "a few" photos of her to "make her look five years younger" as he "wishes he was with her then", he's just had a massive go at her for tagging him in facebook photos of the wedding and told her she needs to "slim down". I'm absolutely furious.

Hmm

Is the friend YOU, MAliA.

He sounds like a tool.

Ain't me, I'm shit at Photoshop.

God dammit Zardoz, how many times have I got to tell you.

Generally I love my job, but there is one customer of ours that is bringing me closer each day to a deadly machine gun rampage around a certain chain of pawnbrokers in London.

Vague enough details that you can't be traced please. I'm bored for the last 15 minutes at work.

Ah, my employer provides software for a certain area of retail. Most of our customers are quite small, indie affairs and very easy to deal with. One is a chain based in London that uses:

a) a third party IT partner
b) almost entirely foreign staff with exceptionally poor English

Most of the time we use logmein.com for remote access to our customers so that they can show us what problems they're having with our software and systems, then we can take over and fix it. With this lot, the 3rd party IT firm initially insisted we use RDP to access each PC in each branch, and that we had a separate login to use for this access. This, of course, means when we log in to a PC there, we get given an entirely different desktop session to what the actual users there get, meaning that not only can they not show us the problems they're having, the problems often only affect their login and not the one we're having to use.

Eventually we had to tell them we couldn't provide service for them whilst things were like this, and they've now changed to logmein.com. Except now they keep changing the login credentials to access their systems without telling us what the new details are. Or they have such a laughably piss-poor network that we get thrown off of a PC within half a second of logging on to it. Or they'll radically change the network setup in a branch without telling us, breaking the network connections our software needs to work. Or they'll randomly spring clean hard drives and delete vital files for our software.

Dealing with them is a nightmare - a call from them turning up in your queue. And all their IT problems are always blamed on us and not the fuckwits they pay to break everything for them. And the icing on the cake is that the staff in their branches are the rudest cunts ever, when you can understand what on Earth it is they're saying.

Guess which customer I'm dealing with at the moment!

Doc, I have noticed your subtitle says Least Rocker.

I demand it be changed to Most Rocker.

If I were Most Rocker I'd be a mod, innit.

Most. Rocker.

Or, at the very least, Much Rocker.

Moist Rocker.

>TOKSVIG MURAL UPDATE REQUEST

>> You are eaten by a grue.

Christ, I just went to the Daily Mail front page to try and find a story that someone at work mentioned earlier. It makes my face hurt.

While on holiday I discovered smoked mozzarella. It truly is an awesome cheese.

Great autocue misreading on the news just "People have petitioned Number 10 to change the law to stop people using Criminal Weapons as Dangerous Dogs"

why are you watching the news? Weirdo.

I'm waiting to go to inappropriate anti social behaviour class, so no shooty shoot.

Also, Wendy Hurrell and the see through dress.

Now on the One show. Turns out that if you want to buy something, you need to pay money for it. And if that thing is a finite resource, and popular, it will possibly cost more money.

Strange times.

Annoying halt to investigations. The woman who commissioned the mural did not work on the show but 'won' it. I know this as Twitter information provider not only knows the garage but also the story of the woman who owns it.

I have enquirer three or four times what part of London it is in, though, but she always skips over that question and talks about any other points/details.

Still have the flu

I have purchased mini brackets and am charging the drill. This can only end badly.

TERRAHAWKS STAY ON THIS CHANNEL!

Do you want me to send Joans over?

It cant be the same thing then since no-one 'win's ISIHAC - possibly something on the news quiz (which Toksvig hosts but has only done so for the last 3 or 4 years)

Well that's why I assumed it was someone who used to WORK with her, but the woman on Twitter corrected both myself and Sandy Toksvig's sister to say otherwise.

Maybe she is confused as to the show she means?

You know I love you, Mimi, but she corrected yourself? :mrconfusedface:

Also, I love that Burt pic. But then I would, being a member of the browy community.

Dammit, have been thwarted with my speakers again. The aux in socket is on the side I want to mount flush. So just spent half hour scouring the interweb for an L shaped 3.5mm adaptor. After 25 minutes of searching I realised what I needed to be looking for was a right angle adaptor even though L shaped was what we always called them at (sinister state broadcasting corporation - Ed).

Anyway duly ordered up. Need to do some soldering as well as the I have managed to also feed all the consoles on SCART to the speakers. However the audio level needs toning down so I am going to butcher a SCART lead and put some resisters in it to calm things down.

That then leaves the eggbox as the only thing not going through the speakers. This may be more of a challenge. If it can present audio on phonos at the same time as having HDMI plugged in I may then be in business.

Shhh, I had just woken up from a nap. Me myself and I were just awakenising from slumbertude. All three of us.

Handing in resignation today. Effective immediately. I've had ten days off (including weekends/bank holiday) and by the seventh I was having nightmares about going back.

I don't want to do this, but I really don't have a choice. I am not capable of going back there without calling someone a fucking useless lying shit in front of a room full of students. I have enough money saved up to last at least five months, which should be enough time to get another job, even if it's a crappy temporary thing in london. I don't like doing it, especially without another job lined up, but at this point it's just making me ill, and with reduced hours I'm not making any money on it anyway.

The irony is that I didn't want to take the week off as I thought I only had one day's holiday left, but it turned out I had five.

I could talk to my friend who has been asking for me to come and work for her since last August, but I'd only be doing it to keep myself afloat until I find a job outside london, and it's really not fair to do that to people, especially a friend. Guh.

Good luck.



It can but you need another plug thing as well - one of these :



With this the Xbox is quite happy putting out audio on both the HDMI cable and phono at the same time

Good luck Sinister! It's about time!