Friday's frenzied finish.

oxoman

Morning. What's with all the eco stuff flying at the moment. Just been informed my work patterns changing so just dropped my boss a bombshell and am now hurriedly job hunting.

tlw1

Because your work pattern was so good??????

Mornin

Dog and eldest child walked and now off to the offices that facilitate spuds for lunch

Later is pub, but not local and I'm driving!!!!

oxoman

Made a point of planning everything around original pattern on rest days then get told to change to accommodate someone else having paid for everything. They dont want to play ball so stuff e-mail, TBH getting fed up of mushroom management treatment from above and GMC BS. Their loss not mine. Anyway forgot to mention earlier it's bloody raining again.

lincolndave

Morning, nice morning for a change,Tigger has had his 3 mile walk, I am having my breakfast with a nice cuppa, quote for work submitted, not sure if I have done the right thing
Bike ride this morning

FishFish

Good luck with the job hunt. I did it last year and it turned out fine.

sungod

'ning

being lazy, no gym, go straight to cafe and collect 200 kcal, then wfh, finding many gmc annoyances at the moment, patience running short and it's only 4th day back, meh

on the plus side, weekend forecast shows no sign of rain, imagine, rides with needing to hose stuff down afterwards, must be dreaming

edit: last night's rainfree forecast has become a rainy one, ffs

seanoconn

3rd day of the flu and starting to get bored.

fat daddy

rain forecast .. wind blowing hard ..... yet my commute to work, apart from the headwind was a moonlit starry sky just turning blue with an epic cloud front rolling in towards me.

Took the slate so lots of riding over bits of tree and debris from the storm

Sad when you think about it .. the favorite part of my day is the commute to and from work ... wifey gets excited about a end of week bottle of wine tonight with dinner, I get excited about the pot holes

tlw1

seanoconn wrote:

3rd day of the flu and starting to get bored.

Time for midget porn?

Matthewfalle

fat daddy wrote:

Sad when you think about it .. the favorite part of my day is the commute to and from work ... wifey gets excited about a end of week bottle of wine tonight with dinner, I get excited about the pot holes

Sounds like you've got a pretty censored life then.

Matthewfalle

Top morning so far - all going according to plan, managed to teflon out of something, just going to have some brekkie, do some simple training on the compooter and then go to the gym. Sweet.

thistle_

Good luck with the job hunting oxoman. Know what you mean about GMC BS.

I thought my manflu was almost gone but felt rotten yesterday and this morning but thought fkit and cycled to work anyway to try and scare the bugs off.

sungod wrote:

imagine, rides with needing to hose stuff down afterwards, must be dreaming

I've forgotten what that's like.
It's forecasting subzero temperatures here for the weekend, however my weather app said it was 85% certain to be lashing down from 6am to 10am however the roads were just slightly damp.

fat daddy wrote:

Sad when you think about it .. the favorite part of my day is the commute to and from work

That's still the case here, despite the potholes - they don't excite me. I think I've even put in my appraisal that the best bit about my job is the cycle to work.

fat daddy

thistle (MBNW) wrote:

fat daddy wrote:

Sad when you think about it .. the favorite part of my day is the commute to and from work

despite the potholes - they don't excite me. .

not even when you get 3 in a row and the second you hop the first one, you need to imediately compress to hop the next and then again the second you land you have to imediately pop and clear the 3rd ... each time getting closer and closer to the edge ???? .. damn we need a smiley with hearts on

thistle_

fat daddy wrote:

not even when you get 3 in a row and the second you hop the first one, you need to imediately compress to hop the next and then again the second you land you have to imediately pop and clear the 3rd ... each time getting closer and closer to the edge ???? .. damn we need a smiley with hearts on

It's OK when you're on a full susser and get some decent air off them (or manual over them, that really upsets car drivers).

pinno

I have stopped bunny hopping on the winter bike due to lights and things going flying and mudguards getting squeakier as a result.

Today all is calm and even a bit sunny on the wevver front. Might actually go and do some work but seen as I have toiled everyday of this year until today, I think i'm entitled to be on a go slow. Tomorrow OH at funeral/ Pedalling Sunday.
Must chase up prescription and post that damn thing back.

Oxo - Stevo tells me there is a market for male prossies.

Laters.

pinno

Methinks VN is short of minions again and having to make his own tea. Not even a spare soul to dunk biscuits and put them in his mouth. It's a bad year already.

Stevo_666

pinno wrote:

Oxo - Stevo tells me there is a market for male prossies.

That was when you asked for career advice IIRC

Oxo - good luck but I'm not much use in terms of job hunting unless you fancy being a tax minion.

Pedalled in today - best get as many of these in as I can as I'll not be riding for a few weeks after my shoulder op which I'm still waiting to hear about. Had a meeting with one of the Tokyo big cheeses today and got another one this afternoon, lots of interesting stuff going on but probably means a fair bit of work that can't all be delegated due to confidentiality issues.

In any event there's cold cider in fridge for this evening - 8.2% ABV.

step83

pinno wrote:

I have stopped bunny hopping on the winter bike due to lights and things going flying and mudguards getting squeakier as a result.

Today all is calm and even a bit sunny on the wevver front. Might actually go and do some work but seen as I have toiled everyday of this year until today, I think i'm entitled to be on a go slow. Tomorrow OH at funeral/ Pedalling Sunday.
Must chase up prescription and post that damn thing back.

Oxo - Stevo tells me there is a market for male prossies.

Laters.

Bunny hopping potholes I presume? A reason to get better fitting lights surely?

Interview earlier appears to have gone swimmingly with a verbal offer
Big pay rise - check
Less hours - check
better propects - check
Training and development - check

Needless to say I'm doing naff all now. drinks later for me!

sungod

step83 wrote:

Interview earlier appears to have gone swimmingly with a verbal offer
Big pay rise - check
Less hours - check
better propects - check
Training and development - check

Needless to say I'm doing naff all now. drinks later for me!

haydenm

step83 wrote:

Interview earlier appears to have gone swimmingly with a verbal offer
Big pay rise - check
Less hours - check
better propects - check
Training and development - check

Needless to say I'm doing naff all now. drinks later for me!

Congratulations!

I've been out on sites this morning with was good, cold and crisp. Weather is looking fantastic for the weekend so I'm trying to decide which day to go up to Glencoe with the OH. I want to get out on the road bike this weekend/night ride tonight but worried about ice. Might continue the mtb trail building about my house instead, would be nice to have something to 'train' on. Currently booking some demo days for bikes I can't afford

oxoman

Well done Step, cheers for the comments folks. Fancy a change of scenery away from engineering and GMC VS so will see what happens, unfortunately 7 yrs to early for early retirement or major decrease in wages. Don't fancy being male prozzy again, done enough of this at GMC over the years.

step83

Thanks all, Oxo, good time to change seems a lot of GMC's have adopted the mushroom management shape. Still lots of roles where what you've done is still relevant. Get a looking.

hopkinb

step83 wrote:

Interview earlier appears to have gone swimmingly with a verbal offer
Big pay rise - check
Less hours - check
better propects - check
Training and development - check

Needless to say I'm doing naff all now. drinks later for me!

Nice one Step!

Matthewfalle

step83 wrote:

pinno wrote:

I have stopped bunny hopping on the winter bike due to lights and things going flying and mudguards getting squeakier as a result.

Today all is calm and even a bit sunny on the wevver front. Might actually go and do some work but seen as I have toiled everyday of this year until today, I think i'm entitled to be on a go slow. Tomorrow OH at funeral/ Pedalling Sunday.
Must chase up prescription and post that damn thing back.

Oxo - Stevo tells me there is a market for male prossies.

Laters.

Bunny hopping potholes I presume? A reason to get better fitting lights surely?

Interview earlier appears to have gone swimmingly with a verbal offer
Big pay rise - check
Less hours - check
better propects - check
Training and development - check

Needless to say I'm doing naff all now. drinks later for me!

Sweeeeeeet - congrats.

Obermayers all round!

Stevo_666

step83 wrote:

pinno wrote:

I have stopped bunny hopping on the winter bike due to lights and things going flying and mudguards getting squeakier as a result.

Today all is calm and even a bit sunny on the wevver front. Might actually go and do some work but seen as I have toiled everyday of this year until today, I think i'm entitled to be on a go slow. Tomorrow OH at funeral/ Pedalling Sunday.
Must chase up prescription and post that damn thing back.

Oxo - Stevo tells me there is a market for male prossies.

Laters.

Bunny hopping potholes I presume? A reason to get better fitting lights surely?

Interview earlier appears to have gone swimmingly with a verbal offer
Big pay rise - check
Less hours - check
better propects - check
Training and development - check

Needless to say I'm doing naff all now. drinks later for me!

Good result - what I usually aim for.

Got minions as well? That would be icing on the cake.

sungod

don't have minions, these days you have to look after them and put up with hr, tupe, law etc.

once you get to minions' minions, and minions' minions' minions, and beyond, it's just a constant stream of cack

dotted lines to someone else's minions is much better, that way you get the fun and they get the admin

veronese68

Evening folks,
Had a very lazy day. Man flu got the better of me so I went back to bed for a while, been binge watching Game of Thrones most of the day. Checked emails a couple of times and took down some of the Christmas decorations. Could do with some more drugs and a kip now.
Well done Step, good luck Oxo.

ballysmate

veronese68 wrote:

Evening folks,
Had a very lazy day. Man flu got the better of me so I went back to bed for a while, been binge watching Game of Thrones most of the day. Checked emails a couple of times and took down some of the Christmas decorations. Could do with some more drugs and a kip now.
Well done Step, good luck Oxo.

Any masturbation to go with the man flu? Seems to be the norm on here.

hopkinb

Xmas decs nixed.
Chinese on the way.
Cold ipa being enthusiastically slurped.

crumbschief

ballysmate wrote:

veronese68 wrote:

Evening folks,
Had a very lazy day. Man flu got the better of me so I went back to bed for a while, been binge watching Game of Thrones most of the day. Checked emails a couple of times and took down some of the Christmas decorations. Could do with some more drugs and a kip now.
Well done Step, good luck Oxo.

Any masturbation to go with the man flu? Seems to be the norm on here.

Yeah deffo pull till it's red n shiny eh,i wonder if Father Christmas said that to Rudolph.

Matthewfalle

hopkinb wrote:

Xmas decs nixed.
Chinese on the way.
Cold ipa being enthusiastically slurped.

I’m on the IPA as well - Edwyn’s home brew.

Just finished watching MM&D with TDWKSNW after a steak, venison and vin rouge dinner. Even did a bit of sitting on the floor, listenin* to music and chatting over a glass of red with TDV like we were 21 again......., it were lovely it were.