Thursday thus far

[caddyman]

First up, I have brought one of the coasters that snorkel_maiden and tjrobinson bought me for my birthday into work. It has a mug of coffee on it and a coffee ring under it.¹ I don’t think the cleaners have found me since we sardine flexed.

I left the house a little earlier today and was pleased to find myself catching a Morden via Bank train. These allow me to switch to the Victoria Line at Euston with minimal effort. I was less pleased to have the Victoria Line train fill with people and then sit in the tunnel while we slowly broiled in our own juices because of a signal failure at Brixton. I am still a few minutes earlier than usual, but as usual, the Tube buggers up when I make the effort so there is no spectacular earliness to impress my co-workers. It happens every time; this is why I rarely bother to try to get in to the office earlier than usual.

In the words of (I think) WC Fields, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it".

I see that this organ has received its first visit from the southern hemisphere is quite some time: "hello" then, to my one-off South African reader, and "welcome and bien venue" to the person in the Republic of China who came my way. I’ve had a repeat visit from Delhi and one person from Korea – presumably South Korea. Truly this is a multinational and multicultural journal: Guten Tag to you all.

Before I sign off and go to do some work, I should just like to add that my iPhone has just received an email offering me tickets to see the Pet Shop Boys at the O2 Arena. I wasn’t expecting that when I upgraded to OS 3.0…

¹I wonder if this constitutes ‘taking ownership’ of the desk: a complete no-no in the New Order?

Comments

[jfs.livejournal.com]

There's some quite good priority offers from O2 - I've had half price entry to Matter (which is the nightclub in the dome) and there's a wide range of music on there too.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I know - it's quite useful; earlier this year I picked up advance tickets for Eddie Izzard's gig in December. Trouble is as far as music goes, the bands I like have either long since disbanded, don't tour very often and are horribly expensive, or are too small to get an O2 gig!

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Keep an eye out - there's a smaller venue at the O2 too. (IndigO2?) - Acker Bilk and Youssou N'Dour are playing there over the summer.

[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

Clearly foreign espionage agents are visiting your journal to gather information about our mighty British Government for their nefarious masters.

[kathbad]

So, see you there on Friday then?

I am aware that this is not likely, for although I will be there, I think that perhaps you will not...