A Fresh Start

To distract myself from tomorrow’s S.U.R.G.E.R.Y.1, I’ve booked the second half of November as leave. It’ll be a chance to not do all the stuff I’ve not got around to for the past 16 months without work not getting in the way.
I’ll wager I regret this next March or April when I’m needing a […]

The departures screen was showing the 18:33 to Cambridge as leaving from platform 1A on time. Nice.
The display then switched to the arrival notice. The 17:12 from Cambridge - due 18:24, now expected 18:411.
Surely I couldn’t have been the only one who spotted a minor discrepancy here?
1 and even that was optimistic

If you were feeling pleased with your replicating PHPBB as per this post, I’m afraid you’ll have to do it again - version 2.0.18 is out.
Sorry.

Isn’t it interesting that if you reverse the letters in the world “wolf” (as in “I watched Misty wolf down some chicken for her tea”) you get the word “flow” (as I in “I watched it all flow back out soon afterwards”).
I like word games. Better than mopping up cat vomit, anyway.

Got a call today from my dear stepson.
Did he :

just want a chat?
want something?

If you think the answer’s “a”, go to i-was.born-yesterday.com. If you choose “b”, read on for his current favourite joke.

He told me this Dundonian girl was on the telly being interviewed. Eighteen years old and has six kids.
“What are their names?”, […]

… and I dismiss the puncture as being a minor irritation, no.1 would be the fuel pipe leak.
No.2, then, would be the fact that my Sky+ box has activated its built-in anti-dross filter and has decided to switch itself off every 2-3 minutes for no apparent reason1.
If you don’t hear from me after Tuesday’s surgery, […]

Here’s a handy article if you want to run two versions of PHPBB2 sharing things like membership between the two boards.
You can also use this technique to run two separate copies of exactly the same board under different URLs.
You will need:

a PHPBB2 board running somewhere in your webspace
more webspace
phpMyAdmin
an FTP program
a text editor (Notepad’s just […]

In view of this post, it’s rather ironic that the young lady in question sent me a text at twelve minutes past three from Hong Kong, isn’t it?
That’s 3:12 AM, in case that wasn’t obvious.

The new(ish) bus station in Norwich

I rang the dentist first thing and explained what had happened. I was put through to young Tizzy, so I went through what had happened again and she invited me over for a date at 11:20.
A mere 20 minutes late I was ushered through and into the chair for Boss Lady to take a […]

That’s a tough nut, I thought as I chomped on a bowl of cereal before retiring to bed.
Gosh, it’s very hard. It’s almost as if it’s not the cereal at all.
Oh dear.
A bowl of bloody cereal, for goodness sake. I know Alpen™’s got nuts in it, but even so there’s no way it […]

Why on earth would anyone choose this post to plagiarise here?
It doesn’t even make any sense being (re)posted on a Saturday. Oh, ok. Even less sense then.

A text from Anni complaining she’s bored.
Bored? Bored?! She’s about1 to jet off halfway around the globe for the holiday of a lifetime and she’s complaining she’s bored of waiting at the airport? Pah!
We chatted for a while until I sent her off to torment the shop assistants in the duty-free Dixons, […]

I had an interesting chat with NiGeL (only fair, seeing as he’s wasted a day and a half of my bloody week and Tall Andy will be livid I’ve hardly touched the list of tasks he left me).
The subject of training (and, as a result, documented certification) in SAS was subtly dropped into the conversation.
“But […]

NiGeL, our New Glorious Leader, seems to be be under the impression that my general negativity in the orifice is just my sense of humour.
He’s going to be very disappointed when he realises it isn’t.
Tee hee.

Discussing my car woes with Anni last night:
Em³: Typical that it happened when there are no trains.
Anni: good excuse to do proper hours though - if someone else is giving you a life
Em³: lol
I don’t think anyone else can give me a life
It was exceptionally good to leave work at 4:15.
I spoke to […]

Overweight workers find it harder to get jobs than their slim counterparts, an online survey suggests.
- BBC News
Something must be done. Now.
I suggest an intensive series of coffee mornings, cake baking and general lounge lizardry!

I got to the Park and Ride this morning and was struck, as I left the car, by a strong smell of fuel.
Oh bugger, I thought to myself. Oh well, I’ll sort it when I get back this evening and tootled off into work (in work at 7:20 - lucky me, eh?)
My plan to […]