Work – what are you doing?

Today I am copying every patent published by Australia from 1920 through to the end of 2009 to our mainframe – 1,561,185 records.

It’s taking a while. 😕

What are you doing ? ( or should that be meant to be doing ? )

Unemployed, looking after 1yr old daughter.

Currently migrating a bunch of Blade servers into a domain and bringing them up to baseline (sanity and health checks, driver updates etc).

Fun fun.

Researching business opportunities in Almaty

Taking a break from Excel to read STW.

Er… I mean working hard. Yeah, that’s it.

Waiting to go into work this afternoon, when I’ll be in a clinic with a bunch of kids with diabetes.

Unemployed. Trying to find work.

Co-ordinating the testing of some car tyres in Spain..

filing in an incident report of an assault by a client on me.
I do get to write lots of swear words and will get to see a counsellor to make sure I am ok. Handbags at dawn from a young junkie with lots of intent and no skill.

working from home had an op on both big toes yesterday so stuck with feet up in the air banned from riding and generally pi$$ed off!!!! still emails are all done!!

Some stuff on one pooter and ripping cds to go on my iPod on the other one. Tis a slog.

Running SQL sever agent jobs to test SSIS (a database ETL tool)

Identifying photographs of Victorian street scenes in London. and thinking about imminent 20% redundancies…

Writing personal performance reviews for the past year.

It looks like it should be an interesting work of semi factual experience-based fiction.

junkyard – are you a dealer?

Designing wedding album on laptop downstairs and processing raw files from last weekend’s weddings on the desktop upstairs.

The album is a nightmare as the bride has taken it upon herself to design the whole album for me on scraps of paper, with scant regard to the fact that the album is square, not rectangular 🙁

New clause in bloated contract coming up re album design…..

No I am a youth worker it is my job to find him employment

Waiting for a train at Crewe, sooner I drive the better…

Trying to improve the flow performance of a manifold that controls gas going into a fuel cell. Lots of 3d cad > drilling in workshop > testing in lab…(repeat). And so it goes on.
Nearly lunchtime & its Brussels pate’ on seeded bread today.
After lunch…the calcs for a cylinder for a nuclear plant.

I’m waiting for my level to deploy so I can check some camera re-positioning.

Completing a contract for the companies parcel spend and creating 2 cat plans for international transport and Ireland transport

Anyone want to take cakes to Ireland and Mycoprotein to america??

Nothing. Waiting for my next contract working on defibrillators to start.

EDIT. Anybody know of any service engineering type work in November…

turning people’s medical misery into 4 digit codes

Trying to ensure that the plant builds the best quality engines possible – more than a little bit challenging at the moment

Been unemployed since Monday 🙁

project managing the £700k re-roofing of a grade 1 listed building

Editing a video of a group of students talking about their experiences whilst on placement…. about as exciting as it sounds!

I’m on holiday till the 9th, I was going out for a road ride, but now it appears I’m going to the station to pick up my daughter.

I’m on a rest day because I worked 13 hours yesterday. I’m going to sign the paperwork for my new car this afternoon after a lazy lunch watching TV.

Reading about poststructuralism while eating toad in the hole.

Lunch, coming up with a formula for a paint, then this afternoon I will make the paint before spraying it. Then tomorrow I will test the paint, decide what improvements to make and repeat.

i’m with you CaptJohn, except i’m eating cereal and avoiding reading about post-structuralism 🙂

Before lunch:Teaching students the factors that affect the level of consumption (C) in an economy, given that AD = C + I + G + X – M

After lunch:Teaching students the factors that affect the level of consumption (C) in an economy, given that AD = C + I + G + X – M, but to a different group of students

work!!?

i’ve had a jolly relaxing morning and am about to be off on the bike. on my return i may muck about in the gardening before settling down for some nice coffee and a bit of a read. captjon’s choice may have me flicking thru some old books.

should i work monday to friday? i think not!

Gearing up for another months bill run. Just imported a new CDR loader for a new supplier and working through the rejects. Exciting stuff!

I’m on holiday still.

Trying to negotiate a Dead of Varitation to enable my client to carry out an equipment upgrade. 😕

Doing a root cause analysis of a hydraulic issue on a sewage works to understand why we have an overflow at c450 l/s when it was designed for up to 900 l/s, and once I’m finished I need to work out how to fix the problem.

Just except it there is only one job now adays using excel or something similar.

Beating our current MPLS provider up with lower costs from one of their competitors!