sometimes

I wish I didn’t have jack. Not all the time but just sometimes. Like when I get the second offer in a week and have to turn it down šŸ™

spring has sprung

It is a beautifully sunny day here in London, I managed to get up early because Jack wanted out at 8ish even though I was out drinking last night for ‘friendlies’ at The Ram in Islington.
So Jack has been to the common, I have all the windows open in the flat and I am spring cleaning – I’m convinced it’s a built in compulsion to clean in spring!
Meg and Paul are moving today as well – nice day for it.
So I have had my 10 minutes to catch up on mail, update this so now I’m off to enjoy the sunshine. I’m looking forward to more sun to come too – the nights are getting lighter and it finally feels like summer is not too far away.

I take exception

To the americans describing my name as needlessly fussy. GRRRRRR
IAIN
Variation: IAN
This most attractive Scottish form of John was rather late making inroads on our shores ? it was already the seventh most popular boys? name in England in 1965. After the emergence of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, Americans gradually began warming to the jaunty charm of the name; now it is finally gaining a foothold on some popularity lists, although not yet sufficiently to feel prohibitively overused. IAIN is an alternate, authentic, but needlessly fussy spelling.

not sure if this is good or bad

I appear to be in the top 3922 of blogdex sites.
So despite what Adam says – I am definitely not A list sweetie šŸ™‚ Old School perhaps – but only just and not really.

Oh and on an entirely seperate note Jonathan has news on the condom and lube front too – great idea!

the interwebnet

is a wonderful thing – especially for keeping in contact – and regaining contact with people you have lost touch with.
This site for me has made me friends and also helped people I was at school with and friends I have lost touch with contact me.
How about you? Met anyone through your site recently?

fucktard casserole

I wish I had known about manbeef as I would have been able to look up a recipe! I still reckon he wouldn’t taste nice though.

grrrr

so you work somewhere for a few years and then you get a nice desk you sort yourself out and stuff and then you get moved to a pants desk which is by the door and everyone who walks in will be looking at my screen and I’m never gonna manage to have private IM conversations again and I hate it – I don’t like change at the best of times but moving desks is traumatic enough to throw me into a very violent mood swing.
grrrr
this I have decided is a reflection of how our office works. I am not valued in the office and therefore have no say in proceedings – I do not manage staff [not that I couldn’t just that I opted not to, I had managed staff all my working life practically and I wanted a change]. However in our work culture unless you manage people you are not important.
I also am not part of the process of the main function of the department. So as such although everyone would be quite happy to come to me with problems which need a solution they are unlikely to thank me when they have meetings to congratulate themselves. [who am I kidding – unlikely? in the year they have been having these meetings I’ve been mentioned once and only cos I kicked and screamed and pouted]
So yes violent mood swings aside I am feeling a little pissed off by the shrug of the shoulders attitude to what I would like.
It took me a year to convince them it was pointless to employ a trainer if I couldn’t train anyone because they had no room for me to train in.
Now I am moving to the opposite side of the floor from the room so everytime i forget a manual or a pen or anything i will beans…
grrrr

flashback time

one of the advantages of my PowerPC G4 is that it comes with iTunes and has a 20Gb hard drive so my 2130 songs or around 7 days of music fit comfortably.
The other advantage is the randomising feature on the playlist – so I can listen to stuff I haven’t heard in quite literally years. The Promise – When in Rome was a classic from the 1980’s which I played incessantly way back when. So I’m curtrently wandering down memory lane with music from my youth whilst working on the most mundane project in the world šŸ™‚

*bounce*

Blogger E is bouncing around due to the impending ‘date’ with the current man of the moment. Who has failed to put out yet.
Blogger E: No one has ever resisted this long

bless the optimism of youth šŸ˜‰