Ok, short but sweet blog, well ok, a little longer as now I have 4 1/2 days off work (YAY!) and a pile of stuff to do at home (Boo) and places to go in the new year, I.e. hunting Avanti West Coast services on the Settle to Carlisle line (opens in a new window, leaves the site) – which unlike last time as I could do it for free with my box card, will cost me a pretty penny, still with PRIV rate and it looks like with all the engineering work going on, I may sample some new Aurora trains that East Midlands Railway, similar to the Everos I’ll be travelling on, not a great thing but at least the seats are far more comfortable on the Everos than their Great Western Railway cousins.
Anyway,
HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!
Hopefully that is clear enough. Things that I may mention in the future, all dependent on time and what policy I’ll break next as there is a social media policy in place that I have to be careful of and I’d like to keep my job.
This might feature and it will require explaining. (I was on it for a start!)
And no, I can’t talk about anything else, please don’t try, messages about them will be binned, not that you can contact me at the moment as I found an issue which will be explained in another blog post to do with the site.
I’ve also started a year in review for me (back in October) and you might be shocked with what I got up to.
Also, for those who read this post on Christmas Day, please do tell me what you got up to. I’m writing this ahead of time but as I don’t have any kids and nearly 40, unmarried (so bachelor) but with 2 sisters and both parents, I’ll be spending time with them, with DIY tasks (please, please don’t go there, its a sore point of mine) and helping with Dinner with 4 dogs going nuts and 1 at home going nuts. (2 bitches, 3 dogs, one dog is at home).
Then I’m back to work on the 29th for 3 days, off for one, back to work on the 2nd for reduced hours (preplanned, possibly working from home), off up north with a friend, then back to work 5th, not decided if it’s the office or work from home. All I know is that I asked for a chair – oh yeah, I am sort of getting something for Christmas.
/!\ TANGENT WARNING /!\
Going off on a tangent!
A new chair in the office and a mouse which became a requirement. The mouse itself is a trackball and for me, I come from an age where trackballs were king, some people swear by them, some people hate them. Its like some settings I’ve enabled because the era I came from. DSTN screens anyone? Old tech, slow refresh rate, plenty of ghosting and what happened to the mouse pointer? You lost it as the mouse often moved between refresh rates, meaning it was hard to track. Even with modern displays, I still lose the mouse. So the solution is simple, mouse trails, visual clue to where the mouse is and moving. Its rather fun at work:
Them: “Why is your mouse laggy?”
Me: “Its an accessibility thing, comes from the era of DSTN displays.”
Them: “What?”
Me: “Errm, look up what a DSTN display (opens in a new window, leaves the site) is, it’ll answer everything, but every laptop in the 90s had them.”
As for the trackball? No one will touch my desk with a trackball to the dock, even though I thoughtfully retained the original mouse, put it in a draw with Sellotape and a note saying “If you don’t like the trackball, feel free to use the mouse in here” on one side, then “and a wireless charger and a lightning cable” on the other side.
/!\ PUN WARNING /!\
(its not very punny!)
I think everyone has just worked out what I am like to work with in the office now. Except, one of my colleagues also had to put up with my tea puns that got me into hot water (at least they didn’t boil over) , I couldn’t sugar coated it any other way. He was totally tea’ed off at the end of it as I milk one more pun out of it. And that was the PG Tip(s) of the iceberg with what I was talking about, just I felt mugged off at the end of it. I better stop there as I’ll be talking about CUPS (link opens in a new window and/or leaves the site) next, that’s on my Linux machine. Just don’t take a tea leaf out of my book and don’t have a drink to that.
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