Saturday night, Sunday morning

A quiet weekend has passed here at The Athenaeum Club. ellefurtle and I wandered into town yesterday principally to get out into the fresh air, but also to purchase more recordable CDs. That was mission accomplished, but somehow we managed to end up with three CDs, a DVD, one book, once comic, a pair of gloves and a purse too.

We spent much of the rest of the weekend indulging ourselves watching DVDs.

This next bit is as much a reminder for myself as anything else, as I suspect no-one on my readers list is bothered in the slightest.

I find that there is a problem with the suggestion that snus can be kept fresh by freezing it. Whilst this is undoubtedly true, no thought has been offered by those who recommend freezing, on how best to defrost the stuff. I have discovered that the typical carton of frozen snus ends up with very fetching ice crystals at one end of the carton. When these melt, the pouches on that side become inordinately soggy, while those on the other side are inordinately dry. I think in future that I shall simply keep them cooled in the fridge, not actually frozen. It's too much hassle.

Ah yes. I found a copy of the DVD of Invasion, the Patrick Troughton era Doctor Who story for £9 in er... well it used to be the Virgin Megastore on Oxford Street, but now it's something with a ghastly green logo announcing an immediately forgettable name. Anyway. One of the best early Doctor Who stories for £9 instead of the recommended retail price of an extortionate £19.99. Eight episodes long, parts one and four have long since been lost except for the audio track. Originally released in the 90s on VHS with a voiced résumé over stills, provided by Nicholas Courtney, the Beeb have now re-released it with the two missing episodes animated by Cosgrove Hall..

Fantastic; if you haven't seen it, you're missing out. I hope they take this approach where other stories have been lost.

Saturday night, Sunday morning

A quiet weekend has passed here at The Athenaeum Club. ellefurtle and I wandered into town yesterday principally to get out into the fresh air, but also to purchase more recordable CDs. That was mission accomplished, but somehow we managed to end up with three CDs, a DVD, one book, once comic, a pair of gloves and a purse too.

We spent much of the rest of the weekend indulging ourselves watching DVDs.

This next bit is as much a reminder for myself as anything else, as I suspect no-one on my readers list is bothered in the slightest.

I find that there is a problem with the suggestion that snus can be kept fresh by freezing it. Whilst this is undoubtedly true, no thought has been offered by those who recommend freezing, on how best to defrost the stuff. I have discovered that the typical carton of frozen snus ends up with very fetching ice crystals at one end of the carton. When these melt, the pouches on that side become inordinately soggy, while those on the other side are inordinately dry. I think in future that I shall simply keep them cooled in the fridge, not actually frozen. It's too much hassle.

Ah yes. I found a copy of the DVD of Invasion, the Patrick Troughton era Doctor Who story for £9 in er... well it used to be the Virgin Megastore on Oxford Street, but now it's something with a ghastly green logo announcing an immediately forgettable name. Anyway. One of the best early Doctor Who stories for £9 instead of the recommended retail price of an extortionate £19.99. Eight episodes long, parts one and four have long since been lost except for the audio track. Originally released in the 90s on VHS with a voiced résumé over stills, provided by Nicholas Courtney, the Beeb have now re-released it with the two missing episodes animated by Cosgrove Hall..

Fantastic; if you haven't seen it, you're missing out. I hope they take this approach where other stories have been lost.

SNAFU

Morning, everybody in LJ land.

I thought that I’d rattle out a quick update before I let my brain leak out of my ears with what I think must be the most tedious piece of work I have had to face in the past 10 years, which is saying something when you work in this place.

The migration from GroupWise to LINK has left holes in just about every area of our work – the hole I am attempting to plug today is our distribution list for local authority finance practitioners. The information is there, but all sandwiched into a single column of an excel spreadsheet. I have to go through around 455 lines and separate out the information in every cell before we can import it into Outlook. I did around 40 on Friday afternoon and nearly died of boredom. I have to try to complete the rest today.

Wish me luck; your taxes are paying for this.

SNAFU

Morning, everybody in LJ land.

I thought that I’d rattle out a quick update before I let my brain leak out of my ears with what I think must be the most tedious piece of work I have had to face in the past 10 years, which is saying something when you work in this place.

The migration from GroupWise to LINK has left holes in just about every area of our work – the hole I am attempting to plug today is our distribution list for local authority finance practitioners. The information is there, but all sandwiched into a single column of an excel spreadsheet. I have to go through around 455 lines and separate out the information in every cell before we can import it into Outlook. I did around 40 on Friday afternoon and nearly died of boredom. I have to try to complete the rest today.

Wish me luck; your taxes are paying for this.

Update

This task is far more tedious than even I thought it would be.

I need much more coffee: I may just eat it from the jar with a spoon...

Update

This task is far more tedious than even I thought it would be.

I need much more coffee: I may just eat it from the jar with a spoon...