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Dec. 15th, 2009 @ 08:34 am (no subject)
lovely - some random person has forgotten her phone - its the silly bint that annoys me. So for every 10 minutes it keeps doing off - as its her alarm....i wonder if she might make it into work.

This is the same bint that does the "i'm on the molibe" and "i wont look in the system for the results as i think i m spying," no love, you are going your job.

In other news, theres 10 days to xmas and i havent even brought one present yet. In fact i only need to get 2, phils and the godmothers. My folkes wont worry about xmas, my siblings arent talking to me and theres noone else to buy for.

oh i suppose theres phils parents but we shall see about them - afterall we do pay for their sky subscriptions so in theory they can miss the actual present, but we like to get them something. Last few years its been a hamper, and typical of old people, theres always something not quite right with it. Biscults with salt on them - thats cos they are crackers m'dear.

oh hum
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Dec. 14th, 2009 @ 12:45 pm (no subject)
i wonder why i didnt sleep well last night. could it possibly be that work is shite and no sooner than i put my head on the pillow then it leaped in my mind?

To be fair, work isnt that bad, its jut the hoops i have to jump through which is getting me down. i dont have much work that i can leave, so i have the joy of trying to figure out with the moving goalposts which task to do first.

Oh the joys of working for a living.

Today my helper is off sick and i am here on my tod. Various people are annoying and the usual, and i have to put up with the not wanting to work thing.

i got the later train in today as i had to get a ticket and check my auctions...and i ended up with a bint talking about how tired she was on the way into work. Shame people dont realise that mornings is grumpy me time as i head off into work.

in other news i have been looking at the stricty come dancing forums. My my some people take that show so seriously. Its almost at the death threats stakes and i am very tempted to join in and be insulting. For those that avoid the show, its rather simple, 3 pairs of dancers, 2 technically very good, but rather bland imo, and the other, well hes not that great technically but he sells the dances and is fun to watch. Well the latter chap got through to the final and you would think that the world is coming to an end.

its all rather funny tbh. The show is aimed at the family market and now people are annoyed that the typical family is voting for the underdog.
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Dec. 6th, 2009 @ 02:10 pm (no subject)
is a bit horrifed to find all her mother's facebook friends (and yes she has more than me) are mostly pictures of children!

Why do people post a profile picture of their gran/kids?

hmmm i can just see it know, i wonder if this Dave is the dave that i know, let me look at his mugshot, oh he seems very young...and a girl!
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Nov. 27th, 2009 @ 07:28 am (no subject)
Well i learnt various things yesterday.

One was that people have no idea how long it takes to develop something, and how hard it is to roll back to earlier version. magic wands to the ready.

two - having time off when people are mad with you makes them less mad. my boss got it in the neck and at our must have now meeting he assumed i knew what the problems were and took the blame himself.

Three - my boss ready doesnt have a clue at times, he has a odd thing in his head over how we do something - magic wand time again.

Four - apparently the upper management style is to treat us like kids. Soon we will get a change to our working hours which means if we desire we can come in at 8 and leave at 4. Unless you are a manager then you need to leave at 5. Regardless of when you come in - well if you come in at 9:30 then leaving at 5 is cheeky.

its bad enough that they think that you cant be a part time manager or that you cant work from home for the odd day and manage a team.

So considering that i am a manager in all but name, and job spec, i wonder where i fall. Tuesday meeting will be interesting.
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Nov. 26th, 2009 @ 01:30 pm (no subject)
hmmm

Do i replay all my old ps2 games?

replay all my gamecube games?

replay my wii games?

play the 2 ps3 games?

replay all the single player games for the pc?

Continue to play Aion?

Fire up champions online as its free this weekend?

go back to warcrack?

fire up the old gb games?

play my three psp games?

i'm so meh about gaming atm that i have only played Dragons Age for 3 hours - and that's a great game.

if my neck wasnt so bad i might even consider some diy.

This damn work stress is having an odd effect on me...
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Nov. 23rd, 2009 @ 02:36 pm (no subject)
bah.

i have a tone of work to do at work. So why do i get a ouchie my neck hurts at sunday lunchtime. Why does it just linger for a while, without stiffing up. i had cramp in my neck before and i end up not being able to move it for three days.

This time its different. Sitting and pottering about its fine. if i move my and reach for anything then its agony.

So bed time, i hop into bed to discover that i cant actually ly down without being in pain. i cant move without a flare of pain. After a few minutes i give up and get phil to get me some meds and sort out the spare bed.

There i was thinking we had spent cash getting a spare bed for the cat to lie on. Thankfully its very comfortable. i did get some sleep, but remember phil waking me up as i was wailing in my sleep.

i am so tired, it really hurts still, and i feel so bad as i should be at work. Worse still is that i can sit at the pc and feel okay, just the getting dressed, getting to work bit that would be a horror if i went in.

i got a doctors appointment for tomorrow, so hopefuly he can sort me out. i have googled it and its a mechanical problem - which means i have slept on it funny and now trapped a nerver or something. it should be fine in a while. i really hope i dont have to have an xray as it will show up my back and i really dont want to know what state that is in.
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Nov. 20th, 2009 @ 01:41 pm (no subject)
email from IT - we have an sercuity audit and we need to tighten up on things, any reason why this server is read/write by all.

Reply - i'll check to see who needs acess, i think it will be only the admin team but i will get back to you.

5 minutes later the batphone starts ringing.

That server is the filestore server for my application. So at the very least the application and database need to read/write to it.

And hour later IT say sorry for mis reading the email and setting up the 2 highest staff grades with access. The annoying this is that chap that did is the main database support for the application - he knows how it works and advises on hardware etc.

Come in today, seems that the proxy settings have changed. Now noone off the network can work. They must have tweaked the settings to tighten up the log, but it now means that half my systems arent working as intended.

Now half the managers wont tell me who is working at home so i have no idea if they are affected.

And of course its going to take a while to fix as noone is owning up to changing anything.

That said its better than last time when they just shut the proxy down as they didnt think anyone was using it. Surely they could have seen that it get tens of thousands of hits a day. Even i can see the stats so i dont know how the network people cant - afteral they set it up for me.

muppet factor is high today.
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Nov. 19th, 2009 @ 08:34 am I just love my job.
i have been working on for the past 6 months a new content patch for our software. its a major change with one aspect of the programme.

of course i checked how various things work and how people did the tasks. Now i release the patch and await the fallout.

Bang!

apparently they forgot to tell me something. Two thirds of the department work differently and noone thought to mention it.

So now i am the bad person for introducing a problem into the system when in fact i have improved it. People are still able to do things but they just have to be a bit more devious with it.

So i am awaiting the pitchforks... i can see that they are gathering the firewoood.

The really annoying thing - apart from noone telling me - is that i have the worse sciatica i have had in years. Its so bad i cant even play on my pc and i havent been gaming for a week! i am sure that its stress related and cos of the patch release i cant have any time off.

i am well annoyed about it all.

And to top it off someone at work did the oh michelle i had a dream about you last night...really i say i hope it was a good one...yes you were having a baby...
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Nov. 12th, 2009 @ 12:51 pm (no subject)
why is it so hard to decide who to hire.

Now if only we paid better then i may have more options.

And dont you just hate it when people ask for a meeting and dont tell you what they want it for.

In other news i have been very tired this week. i think the buzz of interviewing has taken its toll and as a result i am finding it hard to do anything. I think i still have the after effects of an infection, as my ears are trying to tell me i have a cold but i dont!

i was going to get Dragons Age fro Xmas but my chums have ranted on about it that i have sent phil out to get it. He was busy yesterday and didnt get it - and although i was disappointed i didnt get mad about it. That said i was tired and thus ratty. Poor phil - he does have a lot to put up with.

Intrestingly the muppett factor is high it seems. My old team member left on Friday and started her new job on monday. Her new boss keeps emailing her stuff as you would expect. However he doesnt look at the autofill and thus sends them to her old address, and thus to me! So anyone want the customer list for a recruitment company?
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Nov. 3rd, 2009 @ 09:42 pm (no subject)
i have just had the news of the death of a family friend. She was old so no surprise that she died. What is frustrating is that she didnt need to die.

She had a gastric virus and despite calling out the doctor 5 times in 3 weeks, she wad eventually taken in to hospital with renal failure on sunday and pass on monday. All the pills and drinks the doctor gave her, were still where her carer left them - untouched.

She knew better.

This is not the first time this has happened in my family. Another family friend thought her backage was age, didnt want to bother the doctor and eventually was taken to hospital as she wasnt in (as in the lights were on but noone was home). Kidney infection which lead to blood posioning and death.

why do we think we know better as we get older.

My godmother had the mother of all coughs which took 8 weeks to get over. Did she see a doctor? Of course not. Brandy was her cure.

i guess i am just annoyed that Betty didnt have to die they way she did.
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Nov. 2nd, 2009 @ 10:00 am (no subject)
so when i had a sore throat i thought nothing of it. for the past month i have been that place where i dont feel 100%, like i am battling a cold but havent got any symptoms yet, every now and again i get a headache from the sinuses which makes me thinks, running nose incming but nothing.

Well i was feeling very tired and run down on weds and thurs. The throat wasnt fun - although it was made fun as the chap in the US has it too, and didnt like us brits suggesting that he suck a frog.

Friday morning i barely got dressed and phone in sick. i felt so tired and the throat had turned into a cough. i headed off to bed at 9 and was promptly woke up at 3 by the cat jumping on me - apparently i was lying on his side of the bed!

The rest of the weekend has been sleeping and more sleeping. i do have a temperature which is annoying. it goes in waves, so i feel a little chilly (but no shivers) and then i am far too warm. Doing anything - even making a cup of tea - makes me far too warm.

Apparently it could be swine flu - but seeing how i am just thinking that i am very very tired despite sleeping for england, and can function to the point of watching films and cooking - not that cooking a casserole is hard.... i dont have the concentration to play games.

Yesterday i started with earache, although thats just changed into the annoying i have a cold and my ears feel bad. Maybe the sniffles will start soon.

if it is swine flu then i have got off very lightly indeed.

Today i am trying to have one nap tops - and will be seeing if i am better tomorrow.

i cant have too much time off work purely as its my coworkers last week.
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Oct. 29th, 2009 @ 12:13 pm Stupid IT people
Now i know my systems well enough.

A batch of import errors came in. Odd i thought, why would my system be trying to load files that are still in transfer. Phoned the developer to check we didnt have a problem. Cool its not me so it must be the FTP site.

In that time i had 3 messages from external people not being able to transfer data. They can connect but thats all.

Right i say, time to log a call. We have this system where you have to log everything and at the end of the month we all get a nice shiney email saying how well they are doing.

Call logged and i even phoned as i needed them to deal with it asap.

So i explain that theres a problem with the FTP server and no transfering is going on. The IT muppett wanted to know the login details of the suppliers so he can check this. How on earth am i suppose to know those? When i said thats not the problem, i cant transfer the files myself either they go "oh!"

"Oh" i say.

Then i get the thing that they need to talk to the IT guy in this office as they dont know where the server is based.

3 months ago they decided that one office can do all the first and second line support. And that the guys here can do project work... The most annoying thing is i had bothered to run downstairs and bother them i would know what is doing on within minutes.

Anyway i wait and wait. Finally the next day i get a message - err it all seems fine - whats the problem?

FFS. the most likely problem is that the FTP site is full and my nightly script to remove my stuff cured the problem.

i now have to factor in the delays to my stats as we cant complain (and charge) people for late delivery if its our fault they cant send us stuff.

However there was some light at the end of the tunnel as one company used something called yousendit to send me the files. Oh my i thought what a great idea.

Now i have to deal with a lot of academics, whom often cant work a pc correctly or have a machine at home so old its a relic! This would be prefect for when we have to send files to them that are too large for email, and the user cant download from our system. A simple click and job done.

So being good i ask IT if its okay to use it in the 5 instances a year that i would need it, knowing that i have one at the moment and it would prevent me from upsing a cd. No is the asnswer use the ftp site, fill in this form and get an account for them.

But i say they cant use the FTP site, they are on a mac and i dont know how to instruct them. We have an generic login for the site. They have filezilla on their pc and for some reason have uploaded some random txt files instead of images. i need those files.

Tell them to use FTP was the response.

But i have! they cant use it and i cant figure out what they are doing wrong.

i think but this time the entire office could hear me.

A further couple of minutes of her telling me how to do my job followed by the usual get them to get their IT team involed.

*Click*

And now that site is blocked :(

if only i didnt ask.

However gmail works quite well for file transfers it seems. :)

So i ask for a guide. i dont see why i should write something. I get one provided which is the internal guide. Every page has the contact details of the helpdesk and none of it mentions macs. And it also says to use IE which doesnt work since the version upgrade.

However IT are evil people and thats to another problem (me getting annoyed logged all the pc problems that i had) and they have reset my password to something - fuck knows what it is and soon enough i wont be able to log into the network. :(
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Oct. 27th, 2009 @ 12:30 pm (no subject)
A very tired me hopped into bed at 11. A still tired me hopped out of bed at 6 ish. At 5 ish some nutter was shouting the same sentance over and over again.

Needless to say the entire street was awake. i initally thought it was someone from next door as it sounded like someone inside, but eventually we spied the chap.

only after hearing, !im calling the police" did it go quiet. And then starting just wailing.

Honestly i have never heard anything like it other than on the news seeing some distraught family wailing over the death of a loved one in a bombing or what not. its not something i expect to hear in Reading!

Hopefully the chap is being sorted out as its not something one would do if one was sane. Maybe i need to get a paper to see if he butchered his family or something.

in other exciting news i have a swollen lip. On thurs i thought i was coming down with a cold. On friday i just felt a bit under the weather but nothing major. i got up on sat to find the mother of all coldsores and lip 3 times the size (from the feel, not really that swollen). The most annoying thing is that i have the stuff to stop it if i get the tingle to suggest that its coming, theres bugger all you can do once its here. Worse still, for the first time i have it on the inside of my lip as well, so it all feels very funny.

Who would think that a little virus that i have had as long as i can remember (no doubt got it as a child from someone deciding that i needed a kiss), keeps appearing. Last time was a couple of years ago and on my top lip, this time is bottom lip.

Annoying.
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Oct. 23rd, 2009 @ 01:22 pm (no subject)
The weekend is about to start. And i have just had a pub lunch of sorts and have a full belly. Shame i cant have a nap.

I have the start of a cold which means yet again i have had to re-arrange giving blood.

I also have 2 people only apply for the position, which means as i thought - we want the moon on a stick and offer you peanuts.

in other news phil came off his bike yesterday. he has some interesting cuts and bruises, not to mention a sprained wrist. it could have been much much worse. thankfully he opted for ditch bike thing rather than crash into car thats about to hit you.

I guess we need to get the bike fixed too as that isnt well too.
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Oct. 22nd, 2009 @ 12:09 pm Black Tuesday
Dont you just hate days where when you roll out of bed, you just want to kill people?

i had such a black mood that i am surprised that i still have a job. Thankfully noone too annying crossed my path.

Once i was safe at home i thought it couldnt get any worse, until i destroyed the kettle by removing the calicum that was holding it all together.

oh well.
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Oct. 13th, 2009 @ 12:57 pm (no subject)
Dont you just love when you are poor that there are loads of things that you want to buy?

Poor phil, not only did the cat try to kill him, he doesnt get paid for sick leave - unless you call that 20 quid a day sick pay. So this month is tight, and so will be next month.

I see lots of things i want, and a few things i need. my coat will have to live through this winter, however i do need work shoes. So i am being realistic and will try and break in a pair of the dress shoes that i have lurking in the wardrobe. This way i get use of something that unless i was out partying i wouldnt have used and save myself a few bob.

i do need another pair of work trousers so rather than buy a new pair, i am going to slim down and get into the pairs that dont fit me.

The plan is working well, its not like i can afford to keep eating this well, so the treats are out of the window - unless phil wants them of course and its common sense stuff like porriage for breakfast.
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Oct. 12th, 2009 @ 02:45 pm (no subject)
Dont you just love really long weekends?

i have done nothing with mine and loved every minute of it.
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Oct. 5th, 2009 @ 12:00 pm (no subject)
this morning was a chore - this afternoon i am going to struggle to stay awake.

Apparently i have become short with people at work - and i can play the stress card. Apparately HR doesnt deal with noisy offices. i have to tell the people to shut the fuck up and not do it via proxy.

interestingly being off work for a week did nothing to get my work done. And my daft boss put some completion dates to stuff i didnt know was on my to do list, and he did it for them to be done when i was out of the office.

Twit.

15 years until retirement. i can wait that long.
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Sep. 18th, 2009 @ 12:36 pm (no subject)
thankfully its Friday.

Even better then i have a week off.

Roll on 4pm.
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Sep. 16th, 2009 @ 08:59 am (no subject)
why is getting out of bed so hard.

Today i just couldnt get going. And worse still i either must have been grinding my teeth as my jaw hurts or i am about to come down with something as it must be my glands that are hurting.

oh joy.

Now i have a meeting at 10 with the boss - now how arsy should i be?
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