Be Excellent To Each Other

Wait!

YOU'RE A FUDGE PACKER!!

Haha, only took all weekend.

I doubt it will last that long, but I can do another batch, it's super easy to make

You will make another batch for the cottage. and also what is the recipe? I love fudge, I love peanut butter.

FUDGE CONTEST

Shotgun Fudge Judge.

If there is a contest in the offing, then the recipe will stay a closely guarded secret!

Is that your porn star name?

You will be a pudge if you judge all that fudge.

My porn name (excellently) is Bracken McLeod.

Mine is Billy-Whizz Beardsmore.

My weekend was full of middle class self injury, my younger self would despair at this list.

Saturday night I made fudge, and pulled a muscle in my shoulder when I was beating it with a wooden spoon. Should have used the Kenwood, but the bowl was in the dishwasher from earlier salted caramel cupcake endeavours.
Then I changed the sheets and the duvet had a loose cotton thread which I grabbed to snap and pull off. Turned out to be a nylon thread and rather than snapping, it cut up my finger.
Then on Sunday morning when I was picking up a knife from the knife block, so I could cut my now cold fudge, I knocked a metal thermos from the side and it landed right on my big toe. That was a surprising amount of pain, it still hurts now.

Rock and roll people, rock and roll.

All the fudge references to date, and that gets a hat? Not sure if i'm impressed or disappointed.

Well, everyone else had already done the fudge packing. So passé.

The aging cynic in me was wondering why the peace protestors at the NATO summit aren't also picketting the Russian embassy.

The NATO summit probably explains the cars being escorted by police motorbike outriders down the M5, doesn't it?

Most likely. How does it work? Do you pay the bridge toll for each rider, or is there a group discount?

I hope NervousPete is getting some great photos of world leaders to go with his Doctor Who pics from a while back.

All the RC people round there are moaning because they have declared a no fly zone with a 20 mile radius including RC stuff. So even if you were to fly a small helicopter in your back garden then Obama could have your whole street blown up by a drone and there's nothing you can do about it.

I'd better stay well away.

The train line I use was closed every weekend in august and the service was severly resticted on mondays, all so that they could fix the line at Watford Junction.
Very inconvenient, but done for the greater good.

This is the tweet from 10 minutes ago...

Half a dozen low flying CV-22 Ospreys thundered overhead this afternoon (which I completely ignored my interviewee in order to watch. Turned out he was an aircraft nerd too so much discussion was had afterwards) followed by a bunch of Blackhawks. Has something happened at the UK's Black Mesa facility (probably hidden in Cheddar Gorge)?

So... Has everyone had their pills today?

NATO summit in Wales

My regular train, on which i've always got a seat in previous weeks, has now become standing room only, if you can actually get in the door.
Same length as before, same time. The only thing that could be causing it is that it is the first week of september and everyone is back at work. Bloody annoying though.

My choice is to either get up 45 minutes earlier, to catch a train that gets me into the office 30 minutes earlier, or get up 20 minutes later, to catch a train that gets me in 10 minutes later.
I think I know which choice is most sensible.

Lots of teachers on your train.

Actual useful reply: Would your company let you leave early if you arrived early?

Yes, but they also let me leave early if I come in late

(I pretty much set my own timetable and come and go as I like)

I've been enjoying the fact that I've moved to somewhere that's just 10 minutes walk from a tube station, for the first time ever. Really good journey into work, Northern Line->Jubilee Line, done.

Everyone was back at work today, and it was a 20 minute wait to even get onto a northern line train, so that's that buggered

It doesn't smell any worse and I can't see that much more tweed, so I don't think it is that.

Hopefully it will die down a bit I've been able to get a seat for months, but the last couple of days have been crazy.

Luckily I'm an 80 second walk from a mainline train station, so I'll switch to that route instead and see how it goes.

OI! Nothing wrong with tweed.

On my commute, the traffic seems to have been a lot heavier the past two mornings, but the journey seems to take the same amount of tim. Which is odd.

Are we talking Henman or Wonnacott?

I did wonder about that, but they were flying in both directions, over Wiltshire.

Were they just lost?

Fuck knows, where's Wiltshire?

I've been placed on Garden Leave in hilariously over the top fashion. I couldn't even say goodbye to anyone!

These people are a joke.

Sorry to hear that.

My friend was hoping for that when moving corporate law firms. They made him work every day of his three month notice period.

Hah! Yeah, I'm quite happy about paid leave too.

I had offered to finish a statement that needed serving by 4 September but they won't allow me access to computers in case of, I dunno, MASSIVE CYBER ATTACK.

They want me to write it out by hand. I have cordially refused and told them I'll type it up or they can get knotted.

I don't let any IT guys that have been asked to leave touch anything electrical on their way out of the door.

While I understand that you're not in IT, they don't know if you have M4D SK1LLZ or not.

Copying the client list or downloading the email address book is the biggest worry for firms like what Sats does, if memory serves.

Yeah, you're effectively leaving to set up in competition, gardening leave is no real surprise. Though quite why they think you wouldn't have already stolen the client list before resigning if you were of a mind to do so I have no idea.

Turns out they're giving me access now. TIME TO DO DAMAGE.

I'm not going to do that, really.

Yeah, I've kept the whole sole practitioner thing quiet funnily enough...

Can someone help out - I need to prove that someone else is at fault in not being able to set up an online two player game of minecraft on the xbox. Is anyone around this evening for me to ping an invite to? You don't actually have to play, just accept the invite and prove that you turn up in the game

That won't prove anything, because you're most probably both at fault. If you've both got restrictive NAT then you won't be able to join each other's games. If one of you has and the other has open NAT, you should be ok. Same if you've both got open NAT.

So someone else joining your game successfully doesn't necessarily mean it's not your fault.

It's probably his fault.

Run the network test thing from the dashboard, that'll tell you what the NAT situation is on yours at least.