Malt's Musings

5:31PM - Customer name of the day

Alistair Stalker. Which isn't too bad, until you see his e-mail address is a.stalker@(company)

1:03PM - Geek time

Eastercon was great, and I've finally managed to get myself a photo.

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5:44PM - Work-related muppetry

We had a call last week to say a customer was sending some urgent documents to us, and they'd be arriving today. Naturally, they don't, so we call the customer and get the Royal Mail tracking number. What does their website say? "We tried to deliver this item at 7:19 on Saturday morning". Does Royal Mail really think people will be at work at that time on a Saturday?

What makes it better - they apparently left us a card, but the post room do not have it and no-one has any idea where it is. Without the card, we cannot collect it from the sorting office, so the only thing to do is go online and arrange for it to be redelivered to us that way. At which point, we discover that the redelivery order form does not support IE6. Yes, I work for one of the biggest banks in the world, and we have IE6 as our only available browser. I had to use my iPhone to fill out the form, and to cap it all off, it takes 48 hours to arrange this, so we won't be getting these documents until Wednesday. They are supposed to be in Serbia on Thursday.

My reaction to all this can be summed up by pressing the button here

5:25PM - Movember

For those of you who didn't see the update on Facebook, I'm doing Movember this year. Click here if you want to donate. There will be pics at the end of the month.

3:52PM - Lovefilm

I just signed up to Lovefilm today (Americans: this is the UK equivalent of Netflix). As well as a few TV series which I've heard a lot about (Mad Men, Castle), I'm also looking to watch some older films of the sort that everyone talks about/quotes from but I've never got round to watching. I've already put Planet of the Apes and Big Lebowski on my list - what other films do you recommend?

6:11PM

I realise I haven't posted anything for a while. I blame Twitter and Facebook - I'll think of something to post, decide it's not worth blogging about, and put a line on there instead.

Anyway, the other reason for this post is to celebrate Lancashire's first County Championship title since 1934. To make it even better, Yorkshire got relegated.

8:24PM - Finished the Dance

And I'm already arguing with Ran about it :)

( Spoilers ahoy! )

Now, time to read it again.

7:45PM - New computer!

I am posting from a brand new, just arrived today machine. Yay!

I seem not to have posted for a while, mainly because not much has happened. A brief update follows.

( Updatey stuff )

Anyway, off to finish switching over my bookmarks and all the other tedious crap that setting up a new machine requires.

1:44PM

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9:02PM

I had a visit from the fire brigade this evening, due to water coming through my ceiling from upstairs (apparently somebody in one of the flats up there has a broken washing machine, and the firemen had to force the door in order to turn the water off). It was only a minor inconvenience, however they have told me to turn all electrical outlets on that wall off until an electrician checks them out. This includes both my cooker and my fridge-freezer, which is really annoying as I just went shopping this morning, and the frozen stuff will likely have defrosted by the time the electrician gets here (landlord promises it will be tomorrow).

7:38PM - Oi! London people!

Get yourselves into this thread and give us some tips for a venue.

5:35PM

Is something wrong with the board? I'm getting an error message saying "[#2000] You are not allowed to visit this forum.". I've not been banned, have I?

2:48PM

The promotion which I applied for and failed to get back in December/January is being advertised again. Hopefully, the fact that I've been doing that job for the last six months as maternity cover will count in my favour during the interviews.

7:43AM - Music Monday

When I was in Sydney, I went on a day trip to the Blue Mountains. The tour guide had a fondness for Australian country music, including this song, which was apparently the first ever Australian number one

6:56PM

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Someone at the anti-Pope demonstration knows their Latin grammar

6:26PM - I'm home!

44 hours after leaving my aunt's house in Wanganui, I am now back at my own place. I'm tired, I smell, and my face itches from not having shaved for two days, but I'm home.

2:39PM

I am now leaving on the first leg of my trip to Australia - that being to get a train to London. The actual flying part of the trip will start tomorrow morning. I probably won't be on LJ much while I'm out there - most likely any updates will be on Facebook and Twitter.

6:07PM - It's coming fast...

When I left work tonight, I realised that because one of my colleagues is off next week, I won't see him for a month. 9 days before I fly to Melbourne!

10:41PM - Music Monday

Flanders and Swann in Lego

6:21PM - Exterminate?

I had an e-mail today which was headed "Dalek project"