{"id":593,"date":"2005-08-01T20:56:28","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T20:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/nice-things-2\/"},"modified":"2005-08-01T20:56:28","modified_gmt":"2005-08-01T20:56:28","slug":"nice-things-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/nice-things-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the end of my second week at MegaCorp the digital bureaucracy had managed to fast-track me some accounts, allowing me to do a day&#8217;s work! Woohoo!<br \/>\nIt was good too! Tech stuff, but enjoyable. Just enough mental excercise to make the hours pass away. In fact I&#8217;m now digging the new job. It&#8217;s about as far removed from the last job as you can get, in terms of social-life anyway, but that&#8217;s good. Also the UK members of my &#8220;team&#8221; are not only nice blokes but skilled tech-dudes too. Something of a contradiction I would have thought until now.<\/p>\n<p>The weekend was disgustingly short. I bought a Belkin ADSL modem\/router\/firewall\/wireless-access-point from PC Wank on saturday. It turned out to be a stonker of a good buy: not only does it contain a rather cool OS called &#8216;ATMOS\/ISOS&#8217; that&#8217;s very IOSy it can also run Linux \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;ll leave that bit of hackmongery until I get very bored. <\/p>\n<p>We had our customary Saturday night curry and watched Wedding Crashers (worth a view &#8211; available on a torrent site near you). On Sunday I went over for a meal at my mum and dads. Michele had gone off to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatsquirrel.org\/veghead\/pics\/2005-03-12+birds\/\" target=\"_new\">parrot rescue place<\/a> all day and Frances was at a barbecue [ have I blogged about my sister moving back to London after leaving her boyfriend\/job\/life in Plymouth ? IMHO she&#8217;s very brave and has made such a  good decision. Obviously she doesn&#8217;t see it in those terms at this point but she will I&#8217;m sure.] We managed to have a really good laugh about all kinds of stupid stuff that night too.<\/p>\n<p>Until sitting down at this computer I had intended to write all kinds of insightful stuff about the London bombs etc&#8230;but frankly I think it would have ended up being a load of old crap&#8230;.so I didn&#8217;t bother.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight the good folks of G*******s arranged for a night out at the nearest pub. We were threatened with ejection owing to the drunken state of my colleagues (not me obviously). For the benefit of my long-term-memory here are a few key points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dave&#8217;s pet idea<\/li>\n<li>Llynos stripping off and getting into the paddling pool<\/li>\n<li>Lisa&#8217;s &#8220;new look&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Jif and Llynos smashing up the chair and getting threatening comments from the guvnor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are more interesting things&#8230;but I don&#8217;t remember them \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the end of my second week at MegaCorp the digital bureaucracy had managed to fast-track me some accounts, allowing me to do a day&#8217;s work! Woohoo! It was good too! Tech stuff, but enjoyable. Just enough mental excercise to make the hours pass away. In fact I&#8217;m now digging the new job. It&#8217;s about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}