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Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: TG on November 02, 2007, 11:13:39 AM
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Well?
Most of us came here via forums where everyone was supposed to moan and whinge all the time but I cant help noticing that most of you are happy little souls.
So, are you upbeat today? Feeling good in body and spirit? Or are you on a downward spiral to misery and despondency?
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cloud9:
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Downward spiral. My mother is coming to visit next week and the house is a tip. So instead of the leisurely weekend speeding around in Brum Brum that had been planned I am having to spend it tied to a mop and bucket. Still not feeling 100% well either.
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Well?
Most of us came here via forums where everyone was supposed to moan and whinge all the time but I cant help noticing that most of you are happy little souls.
So, are you upbeat today? Feeling good in body and spirit? Or are you on a downward spiral to misery and despondency?
Always happy here. No point in being gloomy I say. lol:
The wonders of modern medicine.
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I am sort of surviving against all the odds: Mrs Nick "working from home" (no work done yet)_ Boy related errands, tennis later. Oh and The Boy has taken up the effing SAXOPHONE Angry9:. So normal really. evil:
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I am sort of surviving against all the odds: Mrs Nick "working from home" (no work done yet)_ Boy related errands, tennis later. Oh and The Boy has taken up the effing SAXOPHONE Angry9:. So normal really. evil:
Trust me, kids learning the Trombone are worse.
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I am sort of surviving against all the odds: Mrs Nick "working from home" (no work done yet)_ Boy related errands, tennis later. Oh and The Boy has taken up the effing SAXOPHONE Angry9:. So normal really. evil:
Trust me, kids learning the Trombone are worse.
DRUMS, you gotta have drums!
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Shite, otherwise fanbloodytastic. ::)
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I am sort of surviving against all the odds: Mrs Nick "working from home" (no work done yet)_ Boy related errands, tennis later. Oh and The Boy has taken up the effing SAXOPHONE Angry9:. So normal really. evil:
Trust me, kids learning the Trombone are worse.
DRUMS, you gotta have drums!
Here come the drums, here come the drums! whistle:
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Initially, I was what could be called "perky" (no "pinky" jokes here, please) as I only had 3 pints yesterday lunchtime and thus didn't wake up in a post Young's fug from the excesses of the normal evening.
However, not long after getting to the office (prior to 8AM - as rare as Halley's Comet) I noticed that the Outlook server that all 330 of my graceless users would be trying to access in 45 mins was down. Now, you can insult most of my users' mothers to their face and it will normally have no effect.
But NO OUTLOOK - I may as well have told them that they were going to be executed by bullet to the back of the head in the next ten minutes. And I would charge their relatives for the bullet.
Next steps:-
1. Get someone at H.O. (preferably sensible) to get onto the problem ASAP - luck was on my side.
2. Tell everyone - my first port of call in the building was Personnel - "OK - We'll send an e-mail to the business telling them..." Erm... cussing:
3. Personnel "Oh yeah. Teeheeteeheee! Aren't we stupid". How I kept my gob shut was beyond me.
4. Personnel "O.K. We'll type a note up and get the print room to photocopy is 330 times and do a desk-drop".
5. Me "I can walk round the building in 15 minutes flat telling those with a brain that it's screwed. They will understand. They will pass it on to their processing amoeabas.
6. Personnel "What's a Me Burr?"
Interlude....<<The English language is an expansive and beautiful thing, but it cannot do justice to the sound of a hole punch cracking someone on the cranium>>
7. Walk round the rest of the building, telling those with some sort of cerebal function the score. Faith in human kind restord, to an extent...
8. 10.07. Outlook server comes back - another 20 minutes whilst all unsent/not received e-mails get chucked through.
9. 10.30 Personnel send an e-mail to all 330 users telling them that Outlook is working...
10. 10.31 TMR explodes. Mrs TMR escorts me out of the office whilst rolling me a fag. Even though she has stopped.
11. 12.45 Lunch. A few beers. A couple of fags.
Everything is now rosy cloud9:
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You work with Mrs TMR?!?! eeek:
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You work with Mrs TMR?!?! eeek:
Wouldn't you if they rolled your fags for you? ;D
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You work with Mrs TMR?!?! eeek:
Wouldn't you if they rolled your fags for you? ;D
Is this a trick question?
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You work with Mrs TMR?!?! eeek:
Oh yes - she sits about 20 feet in front of me. We gave lovingly into each others eyes for about two hours a day. Before the elastic band war starts.
She is the Manager of the Finance Dept. and I am the IT bod - she therefore thinks that all HER IT related issues MUST be resolved NOW, as opposed to the agreed procedure of logging a fault. It's quite funny really...
We are known as "Posh and Decks" in some circles within the company...
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I am reasonably content cos i finished Halo 3 and the Xbox360 only died once. Admittedly I had the difficulty level set to 'retard' but for a middle aged bloke with the hand/eye coordination of an ostrich with advanced CJD that wasn't so bad.
I am now starting a game called 'Bioshock' which I got for a bargain from Amazon. So tonight I shall become plastered whilst blowing zombies heads off.
Mrs TG's son is visiting for the weekend so that will keep her occupied!
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You work with Mrs TMR?!?! eeek:
Oh yes - she sits about 20 feet in front of me. We gave lovingly into each others eyes for about two hours a day. Before the elastic band war starts.
She is the Manager of the Finance Dept. and I am the IT bod - she therefore thinks that all HER IT related issues MUST be resolved NOW, as opposed to the agreed procedure of logging a fault. It's quite funny really...
We are known as "Posh and Decks" in some circles within the company...
I think Mr Wench and I would kill each other if we had to spend that amount of time in each others company. eeek:
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You work with Mrs TMR?!?! eeek:
Oh yes - she sits about 20 feet in front of me. We gave lovingly into each others eyes for about two hours a day. Before the elastic band war starts.
She is the Manager of the Finance Dept. and I am the IT bod - she therefore thinks that all HER IT related issues MUST be resolved NOW, as opposed to the agreed procedure of logging a fault. It's quite funny really...
We are known as "Posh and Decks" in some circles within the company...
Why would they call you Posh?
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I have never worked with my other halves and never wanted to be honest.
It was bad enough that my mate was engaged to my cousing and she used to turn up at the office party! redface:
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They all think I went to a public school - thus "Posh" - however, the reality is it was (and still is) merely an extremely good Grammar school. It's all down to the fact that I don't speak like a "Sarf Londener".
She is called "Decks" due to an incident about seven years ago at a work's Christmas do, where she intervened during a drink induced fight and had no option other than to deck the offending female.
I am fully aware that the same fate may befall me if I don't behave. scared2:
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They all think I went to a public school - thus "Posh" - however, the reality is it was (and still is) merely an extremely good Grammar school. It's all down to the fact that I don't speak like a "Sarf Londener".
She is called "Decks" due to an incident about seven years ago at a work's Christmas do, where she intervened during a drink induced fight and had no option other than to deck the offending female.
I am fully aware that the same fate may befall me if I don't behave. scared2:
happ096
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Something amuses thee ?!
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Something amuses thee ?!
'Twas a well structured response in the spirit of the original question. ;)
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Mrs S and I have lived and worked together for 15 of the last 20 years. For the other 5 years she was at home with child raising duties whilst I worked ~ then I "retired" and we came back together until she went back to part time teaching last year. Prior to that she had tutored privately at home.
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We live and work together... noooo:
...and I don't even have my pub to escape to now... sad24:
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TBH We found it worked well for us but I know that doesn't apply to everyone. P'raps having worked together before any relationship helped. She was my assistant for some two years whilst I went through separation and divorce so we knew one another quite well anyway long before the Knowledge became Biblical. eyes:
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TBH We found it worked well for us but I know that doesn't apply to everyone. P'raps having worked together before any relationship helped. She was my assistant for some two years whilst I went through separation and divorce so we knew one another quite well anyway long before the Knowledge became Biblical. eyes:
Of course, of course... eyes:
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Yeah ~ I know ~ looking back I don't know why I didn't make a move on her earlier but I was ....... "Otherwise engaged". Mrs Snoopy#1 was not the only one playing around and ......................... Oh it was all too complicated.
It wasn't until after the separation and my need to spend a lot of time putting my kids back together resulted in many unauthorised absences from work that I took my asst. out to dinner to say thank you for all the covering up she had done for me and got invited to stay the night if I wished that I realised that what I needed was right there under my nose all along (and I ain't talking 'bout my moustache)
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Yeah ~ I know ~ looking back I don't know why I didn't make a move on her earlier but I was ....... "Otherwise engaged". Mrs Snoopy#1 was not the only one playing around and ......................... Oh it was all too complicated.
It wasn't until after the separation and my need to spend a lot of time putting my kids back together resulted in many unauthorised absences from work that I took my asst. out to dinner to say thank you for all the covering up she had done for me and got invited to stay the night if I wished that I realised that what I needed was right there under my nose all along (and I ain't talking 'bout my moustache)
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Yeah ~ I know ~ looking back I don't know why I didn't make a move on her earlier but I was ....... "Otherwise engaged". Mrs Snoopy#1 was not the only one playing around and ......................... Oh it was all too complicated.
It wasn't until after the separation and my need to spend a lot of time putting my kids back together resulted in many unauthorised absences from work that I took my asst. out to dinner to say thank you for all the covering up she had done for me and got invited to stay the night if I wished that I realised that what I needed was right there under my nose all along (and I ain't talking 'bout my moustache)
So it isn't a dimple after all. whistle:
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I am so happy today I could poke myself in the eye with a shapened pencil.
I am now being dragged to a supermarket. point:
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I am so happy today I could poke myself in the eye with a shapened pencil.
I am now being dragged to a supermarket. point:
Would you like to borrow my pencil sharpener?
I am tidying out the garage… evil:
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Shite...again ::)
Been up half the night coughin.' evil:
Wanders into the bathroom at 03:30 to find the cough mixture to have a swig of, and it was bastard EMPTY! thatsit:
WHY don't wimmin chuck out empty bottles and stuff, lazy trollops. ::)
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Like shite to be honest but then I have since Wednesday so I'm getting used to it. noooo:
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I have been to a windswept and freezing cross country run. Been dragged around an adjacent shopping centre for 2 hours, been to Tesco and put the washing machine on.
It doesn't get more exciting than this! cussing:
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I have been to a windswept and freezing cross country run. Been dragged around an adjacent shopping centre for 2 hours, been to Tesco and put the washing machine on.
It doesn't get more exciting than this! cussing:
Why is your washing machine in Tesco? rubschin:
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doh:
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I have been to a windswept and freezing cross country run. Been dragged around an adjacent shopping centre for 2 hours, been to Tesco and put the washing machine on.
It doesn't get more exciting than this! cussing:
Why is your washing machine in Tesco? rubschin:
And what is a cross-country nun?
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Nice try DS!
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Banghead
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I am so happy today I could poke myself in the eye with a shapened pencil.
I am now being dragged to a supermarket. point:
Would you like to borrow my pencil sharpener?
I am tidying out the garage… evil:
My pencil is sharp enough thanks. Banghead
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I am full of lurve for the whole world today.
Except for Jehovah's wittiness's who have a nasty habit of playing Knock, Door, Run (without the Run) down our street on a sunday just as I am warming me goose fat up. They can feck off.
happy088
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I am reasonably content cos i finished Halo 3 and the Xbox360 only died once. Admittedly I had the difficulty level set to 'retard' but for a middle aged bloke with the hand/eye coordination of an ostrich with advanced CJD that wasn't so bad.
I am now starting a game called 'Bioshock' which I got for a bargain from Amazon. So tonight I shall become plastered whilst blowing zombies heads off.
Mrs TG's son is visiting for the weekend so that will keep her occupied!
Time marches on.
Just bought Bioshock collection of 3 games for the Xbox one.
Superbly imagined worlds.
Stunning visuals.
Dizzying game play.
Woman, pass me my gun....
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What is this thread about?
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What is this thread about?
ummm... rubschin:
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I am reasonably content cos i finished Halo 3 and the Xbox360 only died once. Admittedly I had the difficulty level set to 'retard' but for a middle aged bloke with the hand/eye coordination of an ostrich with advanced CJD that wasn't so bad.
I am now starting a game called 'Bioshock' which I got for a bargain from Amazon. So tonight I shall become plastered whilst blowing zombies heads off.
Mrs TG's son is visiting for the weekend so that will keep her occupied!
Time marches on.
Just bought Bioshock collection of 3 games for the Xbox one.
Superbly imagined worlds.
Stunning visuals.
Dizzying game play.
Woman, pass me my gun....
Bioshock cloud9:
The whole scene with the golf club eeek: