Brendon and Anwar (AKA The Younglings, the student support analysts that have been entrusted to my care), Nick (Team Leader, alien conspiracist and Holocaust denial), Jean-Sebastien (former French student analyst, now a distant memory) and Ian (don’t trust this smiling family man. Beneath lurks an animal cunning).
I may need caffeine. I also may need to not eat KFC food late at night, because I’m sure that was to blame for dreaming about discounts in Co-op. I can’t remember my dreams for months at a time and one of the first I do remember is about discounts at a local supermarket? Who’s great idea was that?
I finally found out why I can’t access EG from work for periods of time. It appears they have an block in place, where if you try to FTP to an non-coroporate site, they block the entire site on all ports. Sneaky. It’s still annoying, but you have to admire the inventiveness.
Anyway I suppose I’d better caffeinate myself and then tell some people that this blog actually exists. A blog without readers is like wanking, but even less gratifying.
I think I like Blogger. While I don’t have the much-missed Friends page of LJ, which aggregates the postings of your friends all onto one page, I reckon I’ll just use an RSS reader for that. The real selling point of Blogger to me is the email submission. I can just happily ramble along. And even if in future places of work I have to endure strict firewalls (or people looking over my shoulder) I can always post.
So what has been good today? Well, the boss isn’t in and my workload is light. So it means I’ve been able to put up some more content for Endless Games (before I lost connection probably due to the firewall of my current employer) and catch up with some people on Messenger that I haven’t spoken to in a while. And I heard from Monkey Mark today. Admittedly he sent it ages ago, but to a mostly defunct email address.
And the bad? Bloody interpersonal politics at work. Ava won’t come to the pub with Tricia, because Tricia has said unpleasant things about Reita. Tricia has been saying unpleasant things about Reita because Reita fluffed up some work and ended up blaming me for it. Tricia took my side, Ava took Reita’s side, but against Tricia, not against me. Colin won’t go out to the pub with Ava, because his wife gets jealous of Ava and Nick won’t come to the pub because his wife gets jealous about him going to the pub with a group of people after work. Some of them being female.
Good grief. You’d think people have more important things to worry about?
Oh well, nearly home time and some more prep for Saturday’s Vampire game…
So what’s been going on? Well, last weekend was a blast, going to the Chelmsford Beer Festival with Bryce. That night also marked the completion of my first week of not smoking. It was always going to be difficult, one week in going on a boozy night out, but I managed it, and so I’m over the worst of it. To be fair though, Bryce threatening to give me a dead arm if I smoked probably helped. Of course, as far as the poeple at work are concerned, I’m still going to use my excuse for being grouchy, terse and generally German as long as I’m still working there.
Which is a week and a half. Then it’s off to greener pastures.
If this works, it’ll help a lot. Not having to worry about actually getting to Blogger would be a huge advantage. I can just write long rambling emails to myself! Result!
Even if it works though, will it allow formatting?
And if so, what kind?
Okay, I don’t know why knowing two people on Blogger means that automatically need to join in the fun, it just does. I’m pretty much retiring the LJ as it has far too much baggage associated with it.
So here I am. Blogging. On Blogger.
So ner!