Be Excellent To Each Other

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Waiting at Bicester ('Town' - ed.) station for the train to Oxford for the first time since February 2014. Today will be the only time I won't gripe about the service.

They bribed me with chocolate to write that.

Quiet this morning isn't it?

Shh.

We're hunting wabbits!

I can't wait until Christmas. 5.5 "working" days to go.

Urgh. Will be here until next Friday. On the plus side, Rogue One on Thursday!

I finish on Friday but I'm back in on the 28th and on call over NYE as per usual.

I am seeing it on Sunday

I'm off from friday until the 6th of Jan. Costs me 6 days leave, but it's not particularly optional

Due to having very little in writing with this job, I don't have a date for when we finish for Christmas, or even a total of how many holidays per year we're entitled to. However, last year, my boss and I just had it as 'unofficial leave'.. not booking it as holidays, not doing much work and just being around a bit in case we were needed (we weren't). Mind you, even working out a basic minimum of holidays, I'm still entitled to probably 9 days holidays and my boss probably twice that, so I'm hoping when I can get this stupid project out of the way, I can start winding down a bit for Christmas.

Leave at 5pm on 23rd, back at half eight on second.

Queue Myp and Cras chipping in with quiet-office-double-time stories.

Kerching! Last year I came in for a grand total of three hours across the three days just to make sure things hadn't exploded.

I'm off from the 16th and back in on the 3rd! Can't wait to get out of here for a couple of weeks. Although, my holiday plans consist mainly of tiling the family bathroom and getting drunk. Maybe at the same time.

We're moving offices this week so basically Wednesday on wards will be a write off...

Queue? Queue?!

Yep. Myp first, then Cras

Title

Good save tho.

I thang yoo

I hate you Mali.

I got ditched by a client today and even though he was not at all profitable I'm taking it really personally and feeling really sad.

So obviously I've drunk quite a lot of wine.

I should have probably posted that in 'NAY' but w/e I don't care. Too sad.

You win some, you lose some, Jem. It is inevitable that sooner or later we all lose client(s), and it's an awful lot better to lose ones you didn't make any money from.

Sounds to me like they've actually done you a favour; what goes by you isn't meant for you etc., as the saying goes. Deffo don't take it personally either, 'onwards and upwards'!

Who is Barry Shitpeas?

The name floated into my head but all I remember is him being mentioned by Chinny(?) but no idea what for.

He was on Charlie Brooker as a talking head thingy with womany Crunk.

Philomena Cunk.

Ah right, that's it.

https://www.firebox.com/Beardo-Baubles/p7372

Beard Baubles for the discerning beard wearing gentleman.

I've noticed that Firebox had a My Neighbour Toroto that's bloody sold out until after xmas. Gah!

If I ever need to create test data of people the first name on the list is always Barry Chickpeas, closely followed by Phil Cunk.

Thanks for the pep talk feeling a teeny bit more sensible about it today. Might have to drink a bit more wine just to be on the safe side though

It's a slow day in the office today so I've just been reading how to make a USB arcade stick from an IKEA chopping board, an IKEA kitchen box and some buttons from eBay.

Looks like a nice little project. I might have a go if I can get over to IKEA.

http://lifehacker.com/build-your-own-ar ... 1789773654

I've often looked at things like that or the Pi ones

https://www.modmypi.com/raspberry-pi/ar ... de-console

or

https://www.modmypi.com/raspberry-pi/ar ... its/picade

That lifehacker link was the one I was looking at. The PDF that the guy made is insanely detailed.

I've always wanted to make an arcade cabinet but I just don't have the room to put it anywhere. I might start with the arcade stick and use it on my PC first and then build up to the arcade cabinet when I either a) get a bigger house or b) build an arcade in my garden.

Both are equally as likely to be honest.

Is it possible to enjoy a night at a tapas bar without feeling ever so slightly shortchanged? Invited to one on Thursday and I'm tempted to be that guy who orders a plate for himself. Bah. Humbug.

You can never win when sharing tapas unless you're prepared to be the greedy person that has all the extra bits from each dish. Despite my natural greedy inclinations I'm way too polite and as such always end up having way less than my fair share of any communal food.

"Oooh, why don't we just order a load of starters and all share?"

"WHY DON'T YOU DIE IN A FIRE?"

If it was all on my plate I'd eat all of it. As it is, I'm British and therefore must restrict myself to a mouthful before politely encouraging everyone else to finish it all.

Or you could add four additional plates to the menu, ensuring there's too much food for everyone to finish, and giving you ample opportunity to eat.

I hate sharing food..

I once stabbed a mate in the hand with a fork, for stealing my chips!

You idiots.

Order more than you ALL can eat.

Buffer overflow error.

That is not possible....

FEEX

Also you end up with billing issues.

"How did we end up spending £35 each on a light lunch?!"
"Because that's what a light lunch costs, tiny person."