I had to do three 12 hour night shifts over the bank holiday weekend, which was nobody's fault, really. But I didn't make things easy for myself this weekend. I finished my week of night shifts at 8 am on Saturday morning, then Barry and I went to B&Q to get a strimmer and hedge trimmer to sort out our much-neglected garden. After that the guys ( Read more... )

In the ongoing saga of being mistaken for "the other black guy" in the office, the same woman came up to me as she was leaving the office just now and said: "...and I'm so sorry I called you Tony* yesterday, it was when you looked at me funny that I realised that Tony* is the other one!"

The "good" news: I am no longer the only black guy working in my department.

The bad news: One of the white, female members of staff just addressed me by his name.

I've spent a lot of my free time over the past few days helping my parents move house from Potters Bar to Northwood. This of course forced me to bail on a couple of social events with the guys, but while clearing out my parents garage they let me keep a glass-top dinner table they weren't using. I thought this made it all worthwhile but my friends ( Read more... )

As I write this, I am just past the halfway point in 12 continuous days of work which by its completion would have included 3 twelve hour shifts, 5 days of finishing at midnight, and another 2 day trip to Dundee (the equipment that was installed there 2 weeks ago now needs to come back).

But the good news is that the overtime and shift premiums ( Read more... )

On Friday the IT higher-ups in my office asked if I would be willing to go to Dundee for a couple of days to set up a "remote depot", which is basically a temporary office with 2 PC's, 3 printers, a modem and a router. The overtime offered was pretty decent and I'd never done anything like this before, so I readily agreed ( Read more... )

Liz: So, how's the new wardrobe working out for you?

Me: Great! It's taken all of my games and most of my clothes.

It's been an especially busy time for me these past couple of weeks. Least of all doing back to back weekend shifts at work (one days, one nights), but on Saturday March 29th of this year I finally moved out of my parents' house! They're selling the house in a month so there was an element of urgency about it (rats, sinking ship, there's an analogy ( Read more... )

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I found this video on a recent trip to the College Humor website. I reckon you'd have to be at least a beta-level geek to get anything out of it, but I think that pretty much covers everyone who reads this.

Chuck Norris, Tay Zonday, Red clip trade away
Ask a Ninja, Lasse Gjertsen, Stan Lee Cameo
Kevin Nalty, Bonsai Kitten, Dancing Hamster, Leroy ( Read more... )

A number of events have transpired since my last post. Here are a few ( Read more... )