It is Sunday. It's midday. I've been logged on waiting to start monitoring jobs and reports during a big processing job for four hours ( Read more... )

I had a minor revelation this morning ( Read more... )

Today I am having the fun of arguing about the existence or otherwise of a table with the DBAs ( Read more... )

The problem with working from home due to snow is that I get to find out how many awful things my cats do during the day when I'm normally not here. Guys, please, is all that really necessary ( Read more... )

( Cut for long ramble about A-levels )

Today is one of those "surviving by distraction" kind of days. It's my appointment with Awesome GI Guy this afternoon and I don't have a good feeling about the outcome, so I'm distracting myself with fannish stuff and being mean to the DBAs ( Read more... )

So last week there was a terribly boring meeting that we all had to attend. It's the six-monthly update from the director of our section of IT where he tells us about resourcing, budgets, audit compliance, department vision (for the day) and other stuff that's going on ( Read more... )

Ah, the joys of weather-induced migraines. And humidity induced asthma-breathlessness. I have had such a fun weekend. If this is what the next two months of summer are going to be like, I may actually lose my mind ( Read more... )

Lazy weekend plans were mostly successful, although yet again the curse of my brain meant that my nine hours of sleep on Saturday night caused a lovely headache on Sunday ( Read more... )

Things that have cheered me up today ( Read more... )