Be Excellent To Each Other

Jolly good.

Congratulations Warhead, sounds like it's worked put perfectly for you. That's great news

I'm going to be a client of theirs once I move, so I will wreak my revenge in more subtle and painful ways later.

Absolutely. I used to work for a guy who was a right twat.

<cut to 5 years later>

Whose CV do you think lands on my desk looking for a job in my department?

I hope you interviewed him.

Excellent news Warhead and Chris.

I've had my CRB check through, so am just waiting for my contract and can hopefully start the first week of December! Whoop!

Ta

What job is this?

Yay! Nice one.


I've almost finished decorating! I think I'll be doing the last bits at weekend, hopefully.

Possible incoming yay from me. I've decided that I'm going to finish what I started and get my Graduate Diploma in Law done in the summer by sitting my remaining exams (well, not decided, I was already going to do this), then I'm going to sack off the legal career and have a proper go at becoming a journalist. I wanted a career with a high earning potential, but after much soul searching, I've realised that I kind of sold myself out and perhaps didn't go for broke on the journalism side of things because I was maybe a little bit afraid of failing/finding out I was shit. Fuck that. It's my dream job, I love doing it, and I'm going to do it. Shit pay or not, at least I'll be doing something I enjoy.

I'm talking proper newspaper stuff by the way, not games journalism, which is just a hobby. My ultimate goal is sports reporting, possibly for the BBC. I think that'd be my dream job. So... yay?

And congrats to Chris and Warheed!

Go for it mate.

Good stuff.

Wow, good luck WTB, I think that's an admirable ambition.

Go for it Jonarob, you'll be much happier knowing you're working twards what you want.

Well done GJ on nearly starting your new job(?)

I like is thread, it is most 'yay'!

Big congratulations to all those with new jobs coming their way, I hope it's worth it for you all, chums!

Zardamn-you-fiiiine-bitch, decorating is a bitch, there is nothing quite so yay as having the end in sight. Except actually finishing it, natch. If you want to come and do some painting and papering at mine, I'll buy you a boat ticket.

Go WTB! That's great, you mental

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I have a man in fitting wardrobes today, which is quite exciting. Unfortunately when he's finished it's back to the decorating.

When I get a house, I'm going to put the biggest yay ever in here and then get to start doing exciting things like decorating as well! I will put the second biggest ever yay in here when (if) I get the money to get the house this year as is the possibility.

Seconded!

When I was driving around in a hired van moving my stuff in on the day we exchanged on our house, I was blaring this out of the van speakers at top volume.

Yay to all

Decorating is not exciting, it's shit.

True. I'll be "yay"ing when I get to the decorating bit though, because it will mean my house is nearly finished. Got some windows going in this weekend, might try to finish the plumbing as well.

Very much which goes some way to explaining why my house is still a wreck.

I shouldn't have set up my Xbox so early after moving in.

Brilliant! Although you have reminded me of the stress of moving...yuk! There's a flat across the road from ours up for sale, it's tempting to just buy it and carry our stuff over the road!

The hardest house move I did was to one that was next door.
Because you don't actually pack anything, it takes twice as long.

That's a good point! We would have to take everything down one flight of stairs and then back up another flight of stairs as well

Our last move was from a house on one side of the street to the other - (and down one flight of stairs and up the other one) - and it took ages to do because we didnt pack things very well - so you'd be walking over with a box with a few things in it (or one or two things in your hand) - after that we decided that our next move would need to be somewhere far enough away that we'd need to actually get a van / help to move.

Everytime I move I categorically state that next time I will pay the £1k and have somebody else do everything for me.
Then next time I forget and think "that's a lot of money, it wasn't so bad was it?"

I assume it's the same as childbirth, although obviously moving is a lot more painful.

Actually carrying the boxes isn't the hard part. It's the packing shit up and then unpacking it again.

When you're moving yourself you don't bother doing that properly, there's no deadline you have to work to, to get everything into boxes, so it just goes on forever. So then it's doubly hard because you're carrying stuff inefficiently.

SDG/Jen I can loan myself, van and trailer when you move if you want a hand

We did that this time. Unfortunately, the catalogue of fuckups that was out house sale meant that they packed and moved our stuff out, but we didn't have a house to move into, so they left it at my dad's workshop (dropping the high chair onto a Maserati ), and we had to move it anyway.

Still, having them pack for us was nice.

You've already moved me, Kalmar.

Just some part time work at a Young Offenders Institute, but I'm looking forward to it.

Good luck chap! (And bear in mind, your dream job may involve talking to me at weekends.)

We have some very promising sounding people coming to view the house this saturday, who want a period cottage in walking distance to Stroud, which is us, and they live on a road at present, so that shouldn't put them off.

Fingers crossed.

Our current favourite replacement abode is this place:

http://johngoodwindata.co.uk/sales_full ... =200009830

Cheaper and less likely to fall down than the current house. And just round the corner from Richard Hammond, too.

Challenging but interesting, I imagine.

Had to have a CRB check myself when my wife decided to go back into childminding. It turns out that was the easiest bit of the process (for her, not me).

I've never seen any of this film series, but the price was so right...

http://yfrog.com/0lbrzpkj

Excuse the n00b image upload - 'twas my first on this phone.

Still, yay, eh?

I have been informed that at least two of the films are worth the 50p that they cost apiece.

Today I installed one of my new windows, by myself. It fit in the hole, I didn't drop it, and it opens and closes perfectly. Win!
SDS Plus drill was used.

Yay Kalmar! I wish I felt confident to tackle that sort of thing myself.

Get in Kalmar !

Nothing like getting a job done and then standing back and feeling all proud

I did lots of wet sanding today. My fingers looked like rotting prunes by the time I was done but it was for the greater good

Cheers! Time for a beer

Well done you. Although I know fitting whole windows isn't that big a PITA, I am aware that they can turn into a nightmare if the walls aren't as solid or straight as you hoped and that the window made is fractionally too small or too large!

I re-felted my shed roof in 45 mins this afternoon as I'd noticed it was leaking quite badly. Now I'm drinking WINE!

I can help if you need any tips, Jasmine; I've offended loads of youths.

My 'yay': All the parts of a friend's present arrived yesterday. They're wrapped and packed and will be ready to post tomorrow, just in time.

I have to scroll up to see what on earth you were talking about then.


Yay!

My GF is back tomorrow, from spending a few days away. Now, the COD sessions and general slobbing about have been fun, but I seem to have lost all ability to fend for myself in the past few months she has been living here.
I think it is because she is a much better cook than I am, so I haven't done hardly any cooking for ages! Lunch today was cheese and crackers...

Just polished off a slow-cooked game and chorizo casserole, a fitting reward for a hard day's painting.

I haven't had anything remotely healthy to eat for 8 days now!

Time for me to have a 'yay'.

From Thursday through to Sunday I did six shows at the Royal Albert Hall, providing musketry for the 1812 Overture. Knackered at work this morning, but really enjoyed it. Full houses every time, and the crowd loved us.

(It's not Wednesday, so no gratuitous pictures of the ornate Russian uniform I was wearing - and anyway I think I prefer the republican plainness of the yankee volunteer).

My Yay! for the day is that I've managed to convince the boss to let me go with one of the other IT bods to install a couple of servers in two sites on the Isle of Wight tomorrow! Yes, it means an early start as I'm being picked up at 6am, but it also means I get a day away from this shithole.

I'm increasingly of the opinion that I wasn't meant for a career of sitting behind a desk all day long. I'm even looking forward to the hours of driving that tomorrow will entail.

Boo. That sounds terrific. Gess some videos, you swine.