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OH FFS THESE NUMBERS ARE ALL WRONG.

OH FFS THESE NUMBERS ARE ALL WRONG.

Type slowly.

4...8...15...16...23...42

This is in the 'new' finance tool. Every time I run the process, it produces a different answer. And none of them are the right one.

To make things worse, this is for a table in an executive summary of an internal version of a management plan (not the external version, that's actually quite useful) that will probably never get read.

If it'll never get read surely that makes things better?

Neurotic Business Management Woman does not think so. "What if they check up?!?!!!???!! It needs to be right or I might get in trouble!!1!!!!11"

Anyway, I have managed to convince her, in a Tony Wilson style, to publish the myth.

27th October is plenty of notice, I might manage to get a babysitter and take Mrs O out for a well deserved drink.

I love how this makes your actually quite cool and attractive wife sound like some sort of biddy in curlers who sits in a corner of a manky pub and drinks port and lemon (but just the one, mind, in case she'd be looking to get frisky when you get home).

Does it? Oh dear. I just meant that she's been beyond tired lately and we haven't really had much of a chance to go out together.

Hullo. I am too busy to write much. Great time had by all.

Does it? Oh dear. I just meant that she's been beyond tired lately and we haven't really had much of a chance to go out together.

I think it's just that Mrs. O = Mrs. Overall in my mind.

Hi kev-lolz!

Yo Ms Monkey. Glad Amsterdam was fun. Got my APA in post. Must thank the Rock.

So that's Saturday, October 27th, accentmonkey fans.

A day before my birthday. Read it. Learn it. Remember it! ;-)

Check-up at OBGYN revealed 6 kilo weight gain. Nurse was waving her finger a bit (figuratively speaking) but OBGYN said that it had to be water retention. Otherwise doing fine (as can be). Head is down down down so ready for *squirting out*. hahaha And had a call from colleague's husband to say his wife already delivered. Two weeks too soon, but she's doing swell! Both are. Still the news gave me a slight panic attack: OH NOES! IT IS NEARING! :-)

I have your birthday written down in my moleskine (breathes sigh of relief that it's still a bit away). It seems like you just announced you were pregnant again!

The rest of you sound so together with your trips and school boards and socializing and what not. My life is so drab and consumed with work lately. Everything's going to hell in a handbasket and I'm going to be a basketcase. I also have wicked blisters on my feet due to wearing pretty shoes yesterday. Is teh suck.

Ms. Mis is no longer a Ms? What's going on here pplz I am too tired to understand :(

whoa yea wat's that??!!

I'm trying to streamline my life.

Ms. Mis, Rock took time out of our busy holiday to tell me of your woes at work. It all sounds ridiculous and scuzzy and unprofessional and I hope you can leapfrog up to a better position soon.

Haha, that's funny! Nobody should be talking about my stupid job while enjoying Amsterdam! Hell, I shouldn't be talking about my stupid job.

It's actually okay b/c it's good to stay busy and occupied (in the day, I'm stayin' busy). Keeps the lethargy away.

I'm glad all you Heroes fans are happy. I don't watch it as I fell off after the first couple of episodes. It's like LOST where if you fall behind , you're screwed.

I have almost clicked on the thread by accident twice today. But at least UNLIKE SOMEONE HERE I remembered to start my t0rr3nt this morning.

Also, isn't Mrs O being taken to see iLiKETRAiNS this week? Surely that uses up her 'going out' quota for the remainder of the year?

I shall find fast t0rr3ntz and have HEROES at my disposal before the kids are in bed.

"Sorry I have to work tomorrow" was the latest message from prospective child minder. I still have a few irons in the fire and we shall go to iLiKETRAiNS even if we have to take the brats (assuming it isn't sold out of course, we didn't buy tickets because we haven't secured baby sitters).

I am about to phone my mother-in-law, wish me luck.

Yeap.

I has baby sitters :)

Bit of a panic there, Tickets Scotland didn't have iLiKETRAiNS tickets and I thought they'd sold out but they're on Ticketmaster. Think I'll probably just walk up the hill after work and have a sneaky Budvar save myself the box office reserve charge.

Where is it? Not "Glasgow's legendary King Tut's where Oasis got signed and that"?

The walk is good as not feeding the monster that is Ticketmaster. I would babysit for you but I think the round-trip's a bit long.

"Glasgow's legendary King Tut's where Oasis got signed and that"

Indeed. I'll make a point of pishing on the Wonderwall in teh gents.

There's a "wouldn't pish on Oasis if they were on fire" joke in there somewhere.

So, Mister M has been asked to be on call Christmas Day and New Year's Day. In return for this terrible incursion on our free time, which will force us to stay at home on our own and scoff food and lay in bed late and not drive anywhere (terrible, right?), he is getting a free XBox 360.

That sounds like a very good deal. I would welcome any excuse to avoid family drama on the holidays.

WANT (xpost).

Tell him to go for that new limited editiony one. It's got a black case. I think.

did ilx go down for anyone else for a few minutes between 10:15 and 10:45? or was it just me? i was terrified that it had been blocked @ work because i did slack off on it a lot yesterday... and then i was able to reach it via proxify... but once i opened a new firefox window, it worked normally. weird.

Hmm, what? I was down over here. . . No, kidding, no down time for me. Maybe they are on to you, Will.

I was actually very scared and saddened to think that the funnest/easiest way to waste time at work (where I don't have much to do until the new site redesign goes live anyway) was GONE :(

It's here now, though! I think it was either a really, really subtle/passive aggressive warning, or a firefox cock up.

Oh shit. I just put in a bid. Except it was a bid decided by me and solicitor without realising there was an active bid 14k higher. They haven't sent in Quantity Surveyor so here's hoping that they don't really care that much. The place will need 15-20k work, I'm not that pushed to pay more than my bid if it turns into a bidding war.

I have that awful sinking feeling that I screwed the pooch on this one people.

I am very, very scared :(

:(

So you're afraid of being locked in on your bid? Is there anyway to retract it?

Oh no. I'm worried about being outbid! I probably won't need to be retract I'll just be removed from the bidding. I feel better now. Absolutely DYING for a cigarette. MUST RESIST SWEET SMOKE OH DEAR JESUS STRESSSSSS

hey, I had the Onimos round here last week. Don't believe his "I go out and leave the little lady at home" schtick, it's all LIES.

(ok, the kids were round too, and Mrs O wasn't drinking as she was on driving duty, but still, it's a sort-of night out, isn't it?)

the kids were round too

This bit is U&K and why we're walking around like half shut knives all the time.

Half shut knives. Love it.

Hey, I was at my first Italian class! Mi chiamo Trish!

Patrizia, come stai?

Er, I don't know how I am yet, Michael. We only got as far as saying who we are and where we come from. Like the scouts.

But I'm guessing an acceptable answer to "come stai?" is "va bene", si?

My two favourite words so far are "piacere" and "salve". I didn't know people outside classical Rome got to say "salve". Deadly stuff.

Ha ha Ciao bella!

Wait until you get to the insults that the modern Romans use. Personal favourite: li mortacci tua! Basically explained to me as a curse on your dead relatives souls. Lovely stuff!

Ciao Kev-lolz.

What news from your wedding? What did you eat? How was your suit? What was the stag like? Tell all. I'm bored. (Not that I wouldn't be interested if I wasn't bored.)

Babysitters are like buses, you wait ages then two come along at once! Mum-in-law took Megan last night and my Mum's taking her tonight - meaning we get two nights sleep in a row! It's been so long since the last time that happened that we feel not a pang of guilt.

Tonight I am seeing iLiKETRAiNS and getting drunked with my wife! Yay us! Tomorrow I shall be onimoed.

(really hating typing that lower-upper-lower-upper-case shit - get one proper band name)

MAC hell, plz to be over today.

I would like to see iLiKETRAiNS but I am house-sitting for my maw-in-law who is going out to get drunked with her husband and needs someone to make sure the plumber doesn't nick stuff, so I shall be getting slowly drunked and screaming at the telly as Celtic get their arses kicked into the middle of next week by a team managed by a thug. Hurrah :-/

(onimo, would you require text updates?)

I'll probably catch the first half somewhere before going into King Tut's (not arsed about support acts tbh) but any texts after that would help, as long as they're about winning.

Wedding was fun accentmonkey. I won't go into much detail here but the wedding took place here:

http://www.abbazie.com/certose/foto/Certosa_FI_103.jpg
http://www.santantonio.org/messaggero_emi/upload/foto/1016.jpg
http://www.marcuslink.com/travel/Europe2002/images/02-certosa-01x.jpg

Reception (with lots of lovely nibbles, drinks and the best food I have ever had at a wedding) took place here:

Sadly all my pics are at home so this is the best I can do. Of the 10 (!) ushers none of the English speakers had been sent the email confirming that we were to only wear ordinary dark suits. That was pretty indicative of the chaos we were working with. It all worked out wonderfully though, everyone had dressed formally, most were wearing DJs and the locations served to keep everyone (mostly) in high spirits. The bride's dress was a pearl-ish colour, criss-crossing lines of diamantes across a slightly rough-materialed bustier. She looked wonderful. Neither could stop grinning or giggling. Great stuff. The groom wore a grey-ish suit (pale pink and brown stripes) and with gold-ish tie, top hat of same material (not brilliantly made sadly but really only needed for ten minutes in the end!). Groomsmen (i.e. me and 9 others) had to wear ordinary red ties on Groom's instruction. Didn't quite work with DJ but I looked fantastic as always. I'll put some pictures on facebook at some point. As usual, no faces just objects!

Reception took place here. Stupid lack of hotlinkability:

http://www.castellodibibbione.com/images/veduta%20aerea%202.jpg

Sausage update:

First batch went very well, but was quite a small quantity - just about a kilo, which probably serves 4 (although you could probably get 5 out of it). It's not nearly as difficult to stuff them as The Generation Game led us to believe.

I got a big bit of beef cheap in the supermarket last night so am going to do another batch at the weekend, this time in a big enough quantity I will have some to give out to other people (about 2 1/2 kilos). This time I will take photos.