Chatterbox Thursday

No murdle yet? At least no one has spoilt wordle today.
Work and then sleep, well sleep seems a long way off at eight this morning.

On these dark mornings when you can't see out my PM goes out through the dog flap for his morning pee. When he comes back in I stroke him to see if he's wet and therefore raining. How wet he is indicates how hard it is raining.

Hello

I am having a terrible time at work. A combination of staff shortage, staff complaints, meetings, a busy time of year…

I think that covers it.

Actually no - there are desk moves and the outer machinations of this one colleague stalking the periphery of my life.

There’s the getting up early too. And a feeling of estrangement from the wider institution I work in. I went to a training session yesterday that I thought would be on interpersonal mediation. It was actually training for telling people about interpersonal mediation. Three hours.

I’m going into work today and I don’t know where a I’m going to sit. But that’s because I’ve planned myself out of a seat. The office has lost desks because people are only in two days a week, so everyone’s having to desk-share. The thing is that I’m in five days a week. Ideally I would have the one desk. In any case, within the time I had to conjure up a new desk plan, the Tetris game solution I conjured up has meant me being in two days on paper and looking for a spare desk on other days. I think I need a new solution.

Lazybones, replace your work mouse with either a track ball or an ergonomic mouse. No fucker wants to use them and they leave your desk alone. An American ANSI keyboard instead of a UK ISO one is the next part of that passive aggressive war if someone doesn't take the hint.

We're about to have a desk reorganisation as well.

I'm still undecided about the sync box, could be a real game changer.

I'm not totally sold on the idea. I wonder if I'd find it irritating after a while.

It's where all the Boxers sync their rhythms. 

Apparently I need to buy lights and a "Hue Bridge" too. And stock is really limited. And lots of people reporting problems with getting the thing to work.

French keyboard is what Lazybones needs.
The keys are in a different, but similar order.
The top row starts  AZERY

I had to use one in a VW garage in France a few years ago. My dad knocked the wing mirror off his car and we had to get a new one. We had a bit of difficulty ordering it and I had to put something through translate then type it in French.
The keyboard was impossible to use. Too close and too far from a UK keyboard. It did work out ok. €300 though. which is about the same price as the UK.


It would take ages to get used to, but well worth the effort to piss everyone else off. 

Yeah. I've got a Plex server.
It streams to our apple TV and also to my phone on the train.

{Edit} Historically I had one in the house that my stuff was on running on a Raspberry pi. I still have the pi and media content in it. The Plex server though runs on a seedbox and streams over the internet. Saves me downloading stuff I'm only going to watch once.

I'm now getting adverts for Philips Hue™

I would not let you down.
I was tired last night. Better to do it this morning.

I have completed 999 Wordles.