So I've just returned from a very relaxing dinner (anyone who makes a joke about me having been out to lunch for years will incur my displeasure :) ). Many thanks to Comrades Greg & Isuru.

Good God.

Smilie's presence is actually reassuring.

It's all over.

So today I acquired some hardware for the lab at AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE less than it should have cost.

I'm good.

So today has been a rather odd day. I had meant to work but thought I might nip to the cinema first. On my way out I discovered that Broad Street was covered with police with rifles, which struck me as a little odd but apparently it was just Johnny politician making a nuisance of himself. Then I spent a couple of hours looking at laptops with ( Read more... )

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Oh good grief, I've been forced to install Skype - this is the beginning of the end! I'll be in low-bandwidth meetings with Spaniards rather than actually working now *sigh*

So the heating in dept. is off over the weekend and it's going to be vvveeerrryyy cold overnight...

I think I may work from home tomorrow!

I've just had an e-mail telling me that I've been booked onto the Uni's 'Welcome for new staff' course....

I've been here for over seven years! Besides which, the date of the course is 5 months after I officially started as staff!

Is it me?????

My office-mates have just attempted to reduce my caffeine consumption by removing the coffee and the filter from the machine while I was out of the room getting water. The scary thing is when I discovered that I'd just run water through the thing I did genuinely believe that I'd forgotten to put the coffee in, which I'd only done 5 mins earlier ( Read more... )

So I've finally found a good thing about all the 10 year old paperweights (the depts. excuse for computers) we have in the office - the heating in the building is off today for repairs but they're all so busy idling away that it's still quite warm in here, hurrah!