Be Excellent To Each Other

My kettlebell arrived today! My very own! I'm gonna go nuts and break myself.

My tax rebate cheque also arrived. New trainers, winter coat and TV (and still a good wodge to go into savings), here we come!

Get a 360

I avoided the usual frustrations of street-based salespeople in the town centre today by walking alongside three people who were constantly speaking German! Yay!

I got some "yay" news yesterday that totally negates the "boo" news I got on Halo Night. I won't go into details because of its personal nature (they found my rapist), but suffice to say, "yay"!

Also, I've quit smoking, six days strong, cold turkey. Difference is, I actually want to quit smoking this time and genuinely don't think I'll smoke again.

Fabulous stuff sir!

Order some Snus, it'll help you quit, but you'll still have the snusy goodness.

Balls to that! I've heard mouth-melting horror stories!

Huzzah! I just passed my driving theory test! 100% on the multiple choice, about 70% on the hazard perception. I'm blaming my lower score in the HP section the poor quality of the videos. Chinny would have been gnashing his teeth and tearing at his clothes at the poor exposure, somewhat washed out colours ans occasional blurry-ness. But anyway, Yay!

Ha, it's not that bad

Huzzah indeed, Mr. Squirt. My personal belief is that the HP test, at least in it's existing form, is bullshit. Specifically money-making bullshit, since lots of people fail it and then have to pay to take the test all over again.

My 'Yay' today is that I've just made the annual order from ThinkGeek that I allow myself (I like to order a load of stuff at once seeing as the shipping is so much).

This time I've gone for an 8-bit style wrist watch, a t-shirt of an aeroplane dropping Tetris bricks from the sky, a Rubiks Magic (I've been after one of these for ages, couldn't believe it when I saw TG had them) and a Star Trek Pizza Cutter for a friend's birthday.

This pleases me.

There's a trick you need to know for the HP test. *don't click too soon*. The timing window opens too late for people with video game reactions.

The hazard needs to be suitably obvious before you "spot" it. Stupid, but there you go.

Anyway, well done, it's in the bag now

Exactly, it's bollocks. It's a test to judge your alertness to potential danger whilst out driving that punishes you for spotting potential danger too soon. Bah!

Anyway, this is the yay thread, so 'Yay!'.

So, Yay! I have a new job!I get to leave current law firm hellhole and go back in house and enjoy my job again, without worring about targets, marketing, schmoozing and business development. The only downer is I can't hand my notice in until I've had all the paperwork from the new employer, and that may be a week or two as they have to run everything through head office in An Other Country.

Well done everyone.

Jens mum gets out of hospital today after two weeks when I finish today I am driving home to get Jen and Willow and we are going through to Fife 'til Monday. Yay

Lots of yays today. Awesome stuff

Huzzah for jobs! Huzzah for mums getting better!

I'm pretty certain I "pre-perceived" a few of the hazards ( as well as utterly bodging one ).

I'd like to see the research they did that proves the correlation between a pass on the HP part and safer driving and hazard spotting on the road.

Sunday looks clear enough on the weather forecast for me to paint my new gates. Yay.

Good stuff Gilly! Have a "yay" from me!

Yays all round then

I've just eaten a cinnamon whirl!

I got a free bacon barmcake this morning.

Obese bastard!

I am on a diet and I'm jealous of your cinnamon whirl I have lost 4lbs though so "yay" for me too!

There's always loads of stuff on there that I want, but I've never placed an order thanks to their shipping costs putting me off. Have you not been caught out by import duty in the past?

The whirl is cursed.

Erm... last year DHL stung me with a bill for import duty after my orders and... eh... I've not quite got round to paying it yet.

I've had my delivery sent by UPS this time!

The whirl had icing.

The icing contains mono sodium glutamate.

I read an awesome dinosaur story in Bits and Bobs! And there's going to be an Alien sex predator film set in the highlands of Scotland starring Scarlett Johansson as the Alien sex predator!!!11111 And it's Friday afternoon! An di am drinking a can of red bull!


_{things can only get worse from here on}

Yay! That sounds like Species!

Oh, wait...

Say no more.

Yays all round!

Good news this week, Newcastle still playing awesomely and also Pulp have got back together for festival gigs.

Reminds me: Boro only fucking went and won a bloody game!

I read on Twitter than Pulp are to reform. I hope they record a new album, which Blur didn't and Suede haven't announced plans to do so. Now bring back Terrorvision and Gay Dad and I'll be even happier.

There was something about Suede on Radio 4 (!) a few days ago. Reforming or touring or something.

Suede are utterly hateful.

Well, yes, that's why I wasn't really paying attention.

Still though, yay!

I received an early Christmas present today, a rather nerd-themed (and '80s nostalgia) present too. Err, yay!

Terrorvision came back.

See?

Quite. Greatest hits album out too, but no news of a new album.

They've reformed quite a few times but sadly haven't recorded any new material.

I loved their first two albums and the third wasn't bad, but they kind of lost it after that. Shame that Butler is concentrating more on production these days.

I have finally managed to get some sense out of HR about the proposed new pension and redundancy arrangements and it seems that the deduction I thought they intended to take from my pension lump sum would actually be from the redundancy compensation lump sum. So it looks like I'll lose £50k that I never expected to receive in the first place.

Confused? So was I. But I think I've a) now got the right story, and b) need to write to the Plain English Campaign about the woeful state of the pensions guidance we were issued.

I just got a free ticket (along with 2 of my coworkers) to go see the FC Barcelona game tomorrow night in Camp Nou, with VIP pass and everything. Yay!

I have a lead on a job! Yay! More after the weekend.

Get a map pack.

You're all playing BLOPS now

So's your mum.

Paperwork will come through from new employer a bit quicker than expected, so can resign this week! Woot! Need an interesting way of doing it.... I certainly have no intention of sticking with their usual idiotic request of people leaving that they don't tell anyone.

Carve "IM LEVIN" into the face of the Boss with a cheap, blunt knife.