Life is sometimes sort of okay because...

[TordelBack]

It appears that... yes... almost certainly... I have tonight off!*  Going to gather my spawn and go for a swim while the weather holds.  Then regrettably I'm back on tomorrow for a rare daytime shift, and unless I'm reading the signs wrong, a day and a night shift on Sunday, which should equal plenty of dosh.  I'm still hoping for a magical 24-hour period where I'm not in work, after a month of 7 day weeks, but its nice to be wanted all the same and it won't last.  The very definition of 'sort of okay'.




*Aside from child-wrangling and wife-irritating duties.

[Dunk!]

Rebellion's kind leaders gifted my studio a copy of the xmas prog for xmas!

Unfortunately as there's only one copy for the 60+ staff it has to stay in the staff room and not come home with me.

Dunk!

[Dunk!]

Oh sudden update: it's just been given to me 'cos 'You're into that kinda shit, ain't ya?'

Ah well, free prog

Dunk!

[Proudhuff]

Oh sudden update: it's just been given to me 'cos 'You're into that kinda shit, ain't ya?'

Ah well, free prog

Dunk!

and they say there ain't no sanity clause!

[Grugz]

I recently got in touch with an old friend again after losing touch which was lovely he's got himself a new partner and finally come out to boot! but sadly he lost his sister this year by her own hand .so sad and happy all at the same time.

[Old Tankie]

Went over to see the lad, daughter-in-law and the grandchildren today and was presented with an iPad Air for Christmas!  We've been assured that, as it's idiot-proof, we'll be okay and can't possibly break it.  Hmmm?

[TordelBack]

Nice one Tankie! The brother got one of those for Christmas from his wealthy in-laws, absolutely gorgeous piece of kit.

[Old Tankie]

Thanks, TB.  Jonathan set it all up for us, with all our favourite thingamabobs, top of the list, of course, this forum.  But I'm typing this on the old laptop, with the iPad Air sitting next to me; I'm still trying to pluck up the courage to use it!!!

[Grugz]

bumped into an old colleague today and told her of my work  woes ,she was very supportive and sympathetic and gave me a little boost in my confidence of the human race again. and as she said it may well be a blessing in disguise.

[TordelBack]

Hurrah, I've got another nightworks contract starting in February.  Closely followed by: ah bollocks, I've got another nightworks contract starting in February.

While any work is good work, nights pay handsomely and leave me time to look after the kids and turn the rusty cogs of my business during the day, but this is almost exactly balanced by what an anti-social zombie they turn me into.  Not to mention the insane weight gain, if the correlation with the last contract was anything to judge by. 

However! 

The 'sort of okay' part of this was the phone conversation that led to the job: the person I'm subbing it from said she had come to me first because she knew getting me to do it would mean "absolutely zero trouble" for her company. Given the radioactive slagheap I made of my career over the last decade, I've been working very hard the past 18 months to earn back a few shreds of reputation, and it looks like I might finally be getting there.  The idea that a company I'd done a few jobs for last year would, as a result, see me as a preferred subcontractor for what is (by my standards) a lucrative gig has given me an unanticipated lift of a Friday afternoon.

Ah bollocks, I'm back on bloody nightworks.

[I, Cosh]

Good to hear. Being a workshy fop myself, I can only dream of this sort of thing.

[ZenArcade]

Work is the greatest privilege and benefit of a Socialist State. Well done Tordel, let the calorific consumption to energy expended demerit commence. Z

[Tiplodocus]

Quorn are set to release vegan products.


Yes, I know they initially tested the core product on animals even though they no long do. This is a good step for a market leader to embrace veganism and reduce my diet to Quorn rasher sarnies.

[Hawkmumbler]

Bet they still taste like shit though.

[Dandontdare]

twenty odd years ago we had a break in and fire in our (uninsured) council flat and lost almost everything - when we got rehoused we took out the council's in-house contents insurance. Got a letter last week to say that since our housing association merged with another one in Manchester, they've reviewed our file - we've been paying £9 per month for years rather than the £5 it should have been and have therefore built up quite a bit of credit- therefore, they are going to send us a cheque for over £170!