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[NickFitz]

Ah, UPS don't fly from Cologne to the UK - apparently it's brought here by road or rail via some place called Stanford-le-Hope on the banks of the Thames near Canvey Island. No chance of it getting here tomorrow, then

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken in red wine sauce with chips and peas

Accompanied by yet another new episode of Traffic Cops

The Mac Mini is descending into Cologne. If it gets switched to a plane for EMA tonight, they could get it to me tomorrow! But I suppose customs and stuff will prevent that

If it does come tonight (but not too late), I'll be able to wave to it as it goes by - inbound EMA traffic from that direction is down to a few thousand feet when it gets here and flies past my living room window

[ladymuck]

What is it with CVs for crappy jobs. Saw a temp job 2 mornings a week till Jan to go to local shops and sort out their greetings cards. Figured I might as well apply cos I'm driving myself mad. "Upload CV" - I mean there's **** all on my CV that's relevant, and what exactly do they expect to see. Can you drive? yes, can you stick cards on a rack? yes. Honestly what are you supposed to put on a CV? Anyway - has made me decide not to bother - I don't need £50 a week that much!


Edit - Oh and we can't say **** now??? wtf?
Edit2 - maybe we never could and I just got swearier in my dotage

Edit3 - How rude of me - hello all

Hello!

Tell me about it - I looked at some £15 ph temp jobs i could do in my sleep but couldn't even get a call back. I made it clear in my covering letter that I was looking for a step down from my career to date (a lie but otherwise people wonder), but it seems that they only want idiots for the dumb work.

[ladymuck]

Evening all

Dull day, in many ways. Barely looked out the window. Apparently the high was 12 degrees.

Sniffles aren't too bad but used as sufficient excuse to not leave the house at 7am to get to Guildford.

[NickFitz]

That's me done for the week!

About half an hour ago, actually

The Mac Mini (if it's on that plane) has passed over Saudi Arabia and Egypt, and will shortly cross Cyprus

[WTFH]

I was about to post something worthy of El Reg/On Call on here, but based on the number of contractors brought onto a call, I'm almost certain some would be members here.
Anyway, without giving anything away:
Hands up if you were on a call today where I had to work out why the backend system I designed had wrong data in it, only to discover that you had pointed a test front end system at a production backend.

[NickFitz]

My new MacMini has left Dubai. Assuming it's on the UPS flight to Cologne that took off twenty-odd minutes ago, it's just passing Qatar at 30,050 feet with a ground speed of 503 knots

[xoggoth]

I seem to have picked up a sniffle.

Today's interview was ok. Got through to the next round, where I have to do a presentation about stuff. This is for a FTC role that will require me to be in Crawley 2-3 days a week. However, they have booked the second interview for next week, when I'll be in Seattle.

Oh dear. Crawley ain't far from me. Watch out for a zombie.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been the rest of the assorted charcuterie in the rest of the bread

I went and got my jab. Hope it doesn't make me feel too bad tomorrow - I need to go shopping for bread

And yes, **** has long been censored. I could post the full censored word list, but it'd be censored so there's really no point

[mudskipper]

Exactly!

[xoggoth]

^

Edit2 - maybe we never could and I just got swearier in my dotage

EXCELLENT! Swearing is good for you. Think swearing is my main language, not English anymore.

[xoggoth]

Nice lady from local history group just been round to borrow my laminator to laminate the posters for the next meeting. We put some in the wrong way round and they came out a bit wrinkly. Probably appropriate for a group made up almost entirely of old farts.

PS Improvement on morning, dentist and shopping. Can anything be more boring than that?

[DoctorStrangelove]

What is it with CVs for crappy jobs. Saw a temp job 2 mornings a week till Jan to go to local shops and sort out their greetings cards. Figured I might as well apply cos I'm driving myself mad. "Upload CV" - I mean there's **** all on my CV that's relevant, and what exactly do they expect to see. Can you drive? yes, can you stick cards on a rack? yes. Honestly what are you supposed to put on a CV? Anyway - has made me decide not to bother - I don't need £50 a week that much!


Edit - Oh and we can't say **** now??? wtf?
Edit2 - maybe we never could and I just got swearier in my dotage

Edit3 - How rude of me - hello all

[mudskipper]

<rant>
What is it with CVs for crappy jobs. Saw a temp job 2 mornings a week till Jan to go to local shops and sort out their greetings cards. Figured I might as well apply cos I'm driving myself mad. "Upload CV" - I mean there's **** all on my CV that's relevant, and what exactly do they expect to see. Can you drive? yes, can you stick cards on a rack? yes. Honestly what are you supposed to put on a CV? Anyway - has made me decide not to bother - I don't need £50 a week that much!
</rant>

Edit - Oh and we can't say **** now??? wtf?
Edit2 - maybe we never could and I just got swearier in my dotage

Edit3 - How rude of me - hello all

[DoctorStrangelove]

And there was me getting annoyed that I have to go to a pharmacy that's 0.6 miles away rather than one of the ones that are 0.3 miles away

Curiously enough it was amazingly convenient: X7 up to the pharmacy, waited in queue, jabbed, back out to the bus stop & back down on the same bus. I was almost impressed.

Last year's venture involved a trip to the Avon Centre in what remains of Port Talbot, being a mere 7.3 miles, but the 87 took just as long to get there & the wait for the bus to come back was longer.