Kevin's Watch

Stevie, I believe the modern response to that would be OMG! Mine, Blimey!

Got told off for saying that at school. The full exclamation "Gor Blimey" is apparently derived from "God blight me!", at least according to my old Religious Knowledge teacher.

StevieG wrote:We have one of these living at our house:



They're very shy and avoid people where possible, but they pack a very venomous punch!

Yeah, no thanks. I'd be worried about it biting a cat. (Or me.) We don't have that exact species here, but the black widow is similar. Used to get those back when I worked in the middle of nowhere - they liked to hang out by the edge of the floorboards. Never had one bother me, but I once dropped a pen under my desk and got a little too close for comfort when I retrieved it. Any fallen pens thereafter belonged to the spiders.

No doubt they built a huge throne out of them or something.

--A

Won't be going back to check. That's the place I use as my example for 'it could be worse' when I'm having a bad day at my current job. The spiders can have it.

Not having the best of weeks, after turning 60 over the weekend.

After leaving my former employer at the end of August for a firm that specifically solicited me to join them, the new firm let me go this week. There'd been some turnover in the leadership of my internal customer (three different directors in as many months), and the new leadership apparently didn't feel my approach to managing their IT Engineering teams was what they wanted.

I was OK with that (I could read the writing on the wall), but I learned this afternoon that my property insurance will not cover *any* of the damage to our rental unit, where rodents apparently chewed through the water pipes in multiple places under the structure, causing leaks that saturated the insulation and eventually weakened the subflooring to the point were the tenants noticed. Insurance adjuster claimed that the leaks had gone on too long and they would not cover it. I'll appeal, of course, but would have preferred avoiding the additional hassle.

Meanwhile, I've got to keep the contractor focused on figuring out whether it makes better sense to try to remediate the water damage and restore the manufactured housing unit or demolish / replace it. Selling out from under it sure won't work...but being on the hook for the full expense of either alternative is not good at all.

Sounds like turning 60 is the least of your problems SD.

That sucks man. Good luck getting it all sorted out.

--A

Second that. The good luck part, anyway.

'Twas the night before Christmas...

(Where's WF with a KW parody of that? )

--A

Sorus wrote:...Herbal tea, though. Pick your favorite kind and drink it 'til you float. I bought a thermos specifically for that purpose a couple of years back - holds multiple cups and keeps them hot. (Okay, it's mainly so that I don't have to say 'BRB, making tea' every 15 minutes when I'm in WoW.)

Thanks... this advice-giving was, I'd say, very successful.
It made me notice that I dislike and avoid drinking tea...
and was not really making any effort on the tea or hot drinks front.
...but then I was forced to think about it, you see.
So I then made up like 8 cups of honey-and-ginger water (effectively ginger tea made with fresh ginger) over the course of the next 3 days, and got better. Yeah!

SD- argh, that all sounds very frustrating.
I have noticed that building-related stuff (where stuff breaks down, needs repair, there's ambiguity - "how do I know that this person here knows what he's doing?") really bothers me.
rodents and water damage... ick.
and when I have something getting damaged / that got damaged, and then I have the sense that it should somehow have been preventable... well, that's a huge frustration.

I'm in the throes of battling a nasty cold/flu virus that's leaving me feeling pretty grubby. Yesterday was the worst so far - at one point I thought I'd have to abandon work and wreck my zero sick days record for the year on my last working day of 2017. Still I stuck with it and made it through. Today I feel meeagh but at least I'm off work for three days.

Yeah, staying hydrated is the key point, more than any potential medicinal properties from the tea. (Though ginger is a good choice.) Glad you're feeling better.

Edit because a post appeared between my post and the post I was replying too. Glad Linna is feeling better. Hope Peter feels better soon. No one else is allowed to get sick.

Hope things pick up for you SD - thats a pretty rough week

My kids avoid me like Im the devil when they get sick

ginger tea is definitely my go to. They hate it but I swear by it.

Hopefully youre all on the mend now

Well, been a busy few days...finally got around to that overdue spring cleaning, tidied up the place, dumped a bunch of stuff in storage etc.

New years now, and the cats are unhappy because I've locked them in...they hate the fireworks.

On an unrelated note, bloody ginger brought me a very indignant bat the other night.

Back to work on the 2nd. Meh.

--A

Back at work - it's tough! I'm sure by the end of tomorrow it will feel like I never left...

Oh thats sad

But maybe also great time back in the swing of things

They finally stopped playing Christmas music at work today. That was almost two months of Christmas music. I still have Christmas music stuck in my head.

Hahahaha Sorus Thats soooo funny

Where do you work that play xmas songs for so long

I feel I am just getting over New Years

Hahaha

I was working away from home this year and my lovely daughter invited me to their place for NYE BBQ with a few of her friends and her brother. Then came out the drinking games lol which Im crap at turns out

So they had me skulling glasses of everything everyone was drinking

She sets me up does my dear heart daughter

Its like yay mums coming over lets get her completely pissed

And yeah lol yeah

Good thing alcohol has absolutely no effect on me

hmmm

Well, back at work. Actually, yesterday was the first day back, but when I got in, there was no power, so we all just sat around for 5 hours before going home again. So today is the actual first day in which anything can be achieved.

Of course, I am checking the Watch before even thinking about looking at the 600+ emails sitting in my in-box.

--A

I'm glad you have your priorities straight.