Where's Sad? She'll love this.

KJ puts a big load through the washing machine, tumble dryer.
KJ discovers that the tumble dryer had contained about one ounce of MsKJ unmentionables.

It all kicks off.

MsKJ: "Dad, I've been at work all day" ect, exeunt KJ

I'm proud of her, for landing a job, so much (and she has passed her driving theory test, yay) ... but .,..

(grump)
Aaarrrrghh! Come back after thirty odd years at work followed by ten years of recession induced stress and then you can criticise me darling!
(/)

KJ Hope things calm down soon
I still can't sleep getting me down now
Hope all are well keep reading and flitting in and out but everyone is busy, which is good
I've missed going back to school and working with the children but nevermind onward and upwards.

My dad has a Kindle, but I'm not sure which model. He paid around about £100 for it. Next time I go and see him I'll have a play with the device.

My beloved Kindle is... Fire HD, I think.

(((KJ)))

Here, I've hit a wall of officialdom and I'm getting very grumpy indeed. I hate illogical waffle and people who get to make life changing decisions for others but can't properly explain why they think what they think.

Some systems are just so bloody flabby and undoubtedly more about keeping people ticking boxes than dealing with issues their titles suggest they might have an interest in.

Everyone say grrrrrrrr.....................

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Will that do you, batty? (((((huggle)))))

Here it's busybusybusy, so not had much chatting time, sorry!

Registration interviews, paperwork for the bloody Jobcentre Plus people, possible maternity cover opportunities, housework, plumbers, kittens, stressed hubby with a horrible week at work and Melony! How did I ever fit in a full time job, somebody tell me?

KJ, feeling your pain.
Mr M is a little guilty of forgetting that I have two squillion things to do here

((((((((((laura)))))))))) for the insomnia
((((((((((Plummie))))))))))) for the stress and tiredness

...and anybody else who needs one!

*mmwah!*

Thanks for the grrr handy.

I had some good news last night after I opened my mail from the week (been away again!). It means even more manic running around but a good outcome is a good outcome, innit.

yoo hoo all

Yoo Hoo, snowbes!

KJ - I *heart* Ian Holloway...

"my opinion doesn't count" on MoTD.

You know things are bad when you have to make a list of your To Do lists.

it is cold here and him indoors starts moaning and putting shorts on if I put the heating on

There's a distinct autumny nip in the air today. I like it! Makes me feel like being all brisk and busy

Sending vibes to overworked batty (((hugs)))

... and to everyone else as well!
(SadP, where are you? Are you OK?)

Happy Monday and here we go again...

Thanks handy.

Yup, here we go again. I'm going to be covering about a 1000 miles this week, and I'm trying to figure out where to be when, so that everything I absolutely need to do will get done.

My favourite task of the week is personally delivering some paperwork, which I have to do by the 9th of September. The letter informing me of this was dated the 10th of September and I didn't receive it until the 14th. I'm guessing a touch of time travel is in order.

*calls for the TARDIS*

motd is a UNIX command (case sensitive).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motd_%28Unix%29

Unix used to own Windows back in the day, in terms of desktops, other than not having a dedicated GUI.

I remember back in the late 90's, a Unix based system running dual pentium 233 MHz processors, could handle 15 users on the system at a time no worries, but a Windows 95/98 desktop would struggle with more than even one user.

/etc

I was quite good at shell scripts backs in those days, especially the Korn shell, but I got myself into quite a lot of trouble at one place of work by accidentally deleting some of this directory as a superuser. Not a good idea.

And it would be a bad idea as well to type in the rm -rf comment as a superuser from the root directory.

^^^ I've been doing Unix for 27 years jra

good evening bloody freezing here

Chuffin' freezing Picked the wrong day to wear no socks and thin trousers (in my defence the sun was out the sky was blue and I had NO idea it was only 12 degrees outside until I was too far from home to remedy this).

I'm ok thanks HM - just a bit 'meh' and lurking rather than posting due to lack of energy and enthusiasm - mostly down to my age, I suspect xx

I've been spluttering with laughter at this tonight: www.damnyouautocorrect.com

I'm old enough to know better, but what the hell!

Sad, age is merely a number. Eat some cake! *mmmwah!*

Thanks handy. I'll return it on Friday. Or last Tuesday, obviously.

I've still got the notes I made regarding Unix commands and scripts, plus a selection of books on the OS. I guess I could relearn most of it within a week.

| (pipe) and grep are very powerful Unix commands, for example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline_%28Unix%29

But of course, you know all that already.

On one occasion I had to write a shell script in order to remove orphaned entries on the live PayPoint (yellow terminals in shops) database (Informix). There were over one million entries needing removal. Needless to say, that had to be tested very well. Thankfully, it proceeded fine without repercussions.

Melony had a friend over for tea tonight. My head hurts... you forget how much noise two little girls can make!

bless

Size is irrelevant