thursday, the only way is up

sungod

'ning

gym, cafe, work from home

appears it will be a nit nippy out

haydenm

Sup

You're routine sounds rather good to me. I'm sitting in the office on my own eating midget gems for breakfast and trying to decide what stuff I need to do urgently before I go to some sites and look at trees. I'm staying at my boss's house tonight in preparation to take tomorrow off and go and shoot things in the mountains, quite excited about the killing aspect but staying at his house will be quite weird...

fat daddy

bed ... gym ... cycle to work ..... boring work bit .... cycle home ... gym ... bed

I love Palindrome days

veronese68

Bed...tea...stairs...desk...XL...zzz...here
Another day of wfh and trying to keep interest alive. Not much else going on today other than another visit to a pub later.

sungod

HaydenM wrote:

Sup

You're routine sounds rather good to me. I'm sitting in the office on my own eating midget gems for breakfast and trying to decide what stuff I need to do urgently before I go to some sites and look at trees. I'm staying at my boss's house tonight in preparation to take tomorrow off and go and shoot things in the mountains, quite excited about the killing aspect but staying at his house will be quite weird...

well, it may sound good, and indeed sometimes is, but the flip side is i had people in usa asking me for help at half five this morning (seems they had a bad/late night), followed by head honcho in apac asking how to do something i told his team to do months ago (so i grassed them up), plus uk and middle east madness (i just sent some blunt emails), and it's only just gone nine

it's not so much a routine as a tactic to retain sanity

hmm, shooting things, i have some targets in mind

step83

Another fun filled day at work sandwiched with 3.5hrs of boredom either side of lunch. Work experience kids were, well kids ended up making them put their phones on the desk because they were playing games and crap and they have no concept of how to make tea nor coffee so they should be sent back to the salt mines from wench the came etc.

Induction kit arrived from Sweden for the car yesterday so I fitted it. Drove in today, my that's loud! certainly amused the neighbours. May yoink out the impact gun later and swap the brakes. Decisions...

haydenm

sungod wrote:

HaydenM wrote:

Sup

You're routine sounds rather good to me. I'm sitting in the office on my own eating midget gems for breakfast and trying to decide what stuff I need to do urgently before I go to some sites and look at trees. I'm staying at my boss's house tonight in preparation to take tomorrow off and go and shoot things in the mountains, quite excited about the killing aspect but staying at his house will be quite weird...

well, it may sound good, and indeed sometimes is, but the flip side is i had people in usa asking me for help at half five this morning (seems they had a bad/late night), followed by head honcho in apac asking how to do something i told his team to do months ago (so i grassed them up), plus uk and middle east madness (i just sent some blunt emails), and it's only just gone nine

it's not so much a routine as a tactic to retain sanity

hmm, shooting things, i have some targets in mind

My imaginings of 'working from home' have very little to do with work, your routine sounds less enjoyable now. I'm trying to catch up on Bake Off whilst catching up on all the work I'm meant to have done, it's not going well

homers_double

The only way is indeed up, straight back up the A1 after a short meeting.

Need to do house stuff later, I might even get the final coat of paint on the woodwork this week before jetting off.

Then when I get back it'll be time to regain what shred of fitness I had about 6 weeks ago. Gym/turbo trainer/base miles.

haydenm

I really need to stop eating sweets for breakfast. On the plus side I get paid to spend time in the loo...

Stevo_666

Free diner this evening courtesy of a pressie the office got me for my last birthday. Apparently there's a free drink too but after that the restaurant will be hoping to sting us for overpriced grog. May need to have a quick sharpener down the pub beforehand.

Onwards to the end of the day...

Redbaron1

Off to work, just stopping at a brewery on my way in to do a beer tasting....perk of the job. Menu writing tonight and a long day tomorrow but had a lay in with tea and toast this am so no complaints.

pinno

Ha. Bollox. Meh.

Decided to finish framing in the utility room. Thought better start at the back door. Bottom 2 inches are rotten and me thought I would replace the bottom with spar, seeing i'm taking it off to reface and put new stop blocks on. Unearthed a shop of horrors. Rotten uprights that stuck straight in the ground. No wonder they were rotten.
Got the SDS drill out and excavated the holes. Filled with cement and water inhibitor. Started rebuilding door. Put facias back on. Run out of time and light. Put the door in the aperture and screwed some planks to the frame. Exited by the front door.

Back to it tomorrow. Wanted to pedal instead. Ha. Bollox. Meh.

Laters.

Stevo_666

Pinno wrote:

Ha. Bollox. Meh.

Decided to finish framing in the utility room. Thought better start at the back door. Bottom 2 inches are rotten and me thought I would replace the bottom with spar, seeing i'm taking it off to reface and put new stop blocks on. Unearthed a shop of horrors. Rotten uprights that stuck straight in the ground. No wonder they were rotten.
Got the SDS drill out and excavated the holes. Filled with cement and water inhibitor. Started rebuilding door. Put facias back on. Run out of time and light. Put the door in the aperture and screwed some planks to the frame. Exited by the front door.

Back to it tomorrow. Wanted to pedal instead. Ha. Bollox. Meh.

Laters.

Have you ever heard of getting a handyman?

Garry H

Stevo 666 wrote:

Pinno wrote:

Ha. Bollox. Meh.

Decided to finish framing in the utility room. Thought better start at the back door. Bottom 2 inches are rotten and me thought I would replace the bottom with spar, seeing i'm taking it off to reface and put new stop blocks on. Unearthed a shop of horrors. Rotten uprights that stuck straight in the ground. No wonder they were rotten.
Got the SDS drill out and excavated the holes. Filled with cement and water inhibitor. Started rebuilding door. Put facias back on. Run out of time and light. Put the door in the aperture and screwed some planks to the frame. Exited by the front door.

Back to it tomorrow. Wanted to pedal instead. Ha. Bollox. Meh.

Laters.

Have you ever heard of getting a handyman?

He can't even afford to turn the lights on!

pinno

Garry H wrote:

Stevo 666 wrote:

Pinno wrote:

Ha. Bollox. Meh.

Decided to finish framing in the utility room. Thought better start at the back door. Bottom 2 inches are rotten and me thought I would replace the bottom with spar, seeing i'm taking it off to reface and put new stop blocks on. Unearthed a shop of horrors. Rotten uprights that stuck straight in the ground. No wonder they were rotten.
Got the SDS drill out and excavated the holes. Filled with cement and water inhibitor. Started rebuilding door. Put facias back on. Run out of time and light. Put the door in the aperture and screwed some planks to the frame. Exited by the front door.

Back to it tomorrow. Wanted to pedal instead. Ha. Bollox. Meh.

Laters.

Have you ever heard of getting a handyman?

He can't even afford to turn the lights on!

Keep the bloody noise down, i'm trying to teach my Stoat to read.

@Stevo: I am handy, f*ck off.

Stevo_666

I listened at school so I wouldn't have to do manual.labour

pinno

Stevo 666 wrote:

I listened at school so I wouldn't have to do manual.labour

...but you can't fix anything. My old man (the second one, not the first one - he was a tw@t) said you're not a man if you can't fix anything.
I bet I got twice the satisfaction of some excavating, cement work and joinery than sat at a desk playing with a minion and getting paid a sum of money that will only elevate your sense of insecurity whilst you worry about your nest egg and future finances/pension, expensive daughter... Worry, worry. worry...

If I paid someone to do it, I would need three times the budget and I wouldn't be able to say "I did that".

What you earn can be totally unconnected to job satisfaction.

tlw1

Stevo 666 wrote:

I listened at school so I wouldn't have to do manual.labour

Me too, but the budget for the house is depleting faster than the jobs remaining

pinno

TLW1 wrote:

Stevo 666 wrote:

I listened at school so I wouldn't have to do manual.labour

Me too, but the budget for the house is depleting faster than the jobs remaining

There you go.

Stevo_666

Life is for living, minions are.minioning

pinno

You're an accountant.

If the budget for the house exceeded final sale price + pre-work condition value, then it would not be worth it. As it is, the budget doesn't.
Besides, I am living. I am achieving something.
I would not swap it for a 100K pa job in the City. I cannot compare it to office life. Office life consisted of ironing 5 shirts on a Sunday night or do I iron one a day and talking to the right people in the right way. It was a farce, a load of bollox, veneer, populated by 2 types: The movers and shakers who dressed in a particular way and kept the company of the 'right' people and the minions who were all on a gravy train to obscurity and nothingness. Difficult sometimes to tell the really good one's apart form the one's who were pretenders, especially if they had a private education.
In my short time working at whatever.com, I managed a few things. Some changes and improvements to processes. I never got the credit and was often seen as a pariah by others.

I could give you examples but this ain't the place.

veronese68

I have to agree with Piña, definitely an element of satisfaction in doing a job yourself, that and I don't trust a lot of people to do it right. oh, and I'm tight.

Stevo_666

So

Veronese68 wrote:

I have to agree with Piña, definitely an element of satisfaction in doing a job yourself, that and I don't trust a lot of people to do it right. oh, and I'm tight.

So am I. But I'm also sh1t at DIY

Stevo_666

Pinno wrote:

You're an accountant.

If the budget for the house exceeded final sale price + pre-work condition value, then it would not be worth it. As it is, the budget doesn't.
Besides, I am living. I am achieving something.
I would not swap it for a 100K pa job in the City. I cannot compare it to office life. Office life consisted of ironing 5 shirts on a Sunday night or do I iron one a day and talking to the right people in the right way. It was a farce, a load of bollox, veneer, populated by 2 types: The movers and shakers who dressed in a particular way and kept the company of the 'right' people and the minions who were all on a gravy train to obscurity and nothingness. Difficult sometimes to tell the really good one's apart form the one's who were pretenders, especially if they had a private education.
In my short time working at whatever.com, I managed a few things. Some changes and improvements to processes. I never got the credit and was often seen as a pariah by others.

I could give you examples but this ain't the place.

I was only taking the p1ss, it wasn't meant to get essay in return.... Maybe I've got a point here about listening at school

But just think how different life could have been for you if you'd discovered T.M. Lewin non-iron shirts :P