So, I have a beard. A full beard, one that I keep reguarly trimmed to be neat and tidy and shaped appropriately - I'm a bearded man, not a wild-eyed unshaven prophet from the desert. (Although I suppose the wild-eyed part is debatable...)

I have often noted that one of the reasons I do not mind this beard is because my beard, unlike many peoples ( Read more... )

Food grease tastes funny.*

Thank you for your co-operation.

* (The good news is, as the name implies, it's non-toxic. All the same, however? Remember to wash your hands before morning tea, if you're liable to get melty chocolate all over them.)

So it turns out it's actually 7AM-4:30PM, which is indeed, a 9 hour day. Given I am paid by the hour, I'm disinclined to complain too hard about this fact.

I'm working at what is, well. It started out as a Very Large Blueberry Farming Operation(tm). And then they needed some blueberry harvesting equipment that they couldn't source. So they ( Read more... )

Last thursday, made a phonecall to Forj's employment, enquiring about a job. No luck, they had all the temp staff they needed, terribly sorry, etc. Shrug shoulders, move on ( Read more... )

So yesterday, I went to post some mail. Resumes for the job hunt; most of the jobs I don't have much hope for but you never do know ( Read more... )

The way the building is set up, we have a carpark outside the basement. There are two doors out of that side of the building - the main one, that is a more recent addition and sorta off-around-the-side, and then the IT basement doorway, more conviniently located for carpark access, but no longer publically avalable after they knocked out a few ( Read more... )