Merry Christmas All!!

Just about to head around to Boys for a couple of days of kai and refreshments!!

Back online with various reviews of 2006 in a few days - in the meantime things wil be a bit quiet in these parts. Not that any of you would be looking at tis on your own time - see you all when you are back at work!

Mt first Christmas away from home - would rather be home, but things are all good here.

Project Over - Life Back

It has been a hell of a few weeks opening a new office - but today it all came together, brilliant.

Full update to come, including some very dodgy photo's from our Christmas do...

I won a few awards - but when 'use of the most colourful language' was one of them - you don't like to boast.

Back in action soon.

Could it be Christmas now please...

Better yet - February would be nice. Feeling a little bit over this year... What should be party season is turning out to be the busiest time of a manic year.

All good and will be looked back on fondly - but I wouldn't mind getting across the finish line now.

Ho hum, but not quite 'bah humbug' yet!!

Happy Birthday Ty, will try to call in the morning!

THE MOTHER OF ALL F*&K UPS

Major project, front office implementation, high visibility. All carefully managed and tested by K and today was the big day. Data conversion all set to go, project live tomorrow. Confidence high - nothing could go wrong - surely!?!?

And then you get a call saying that they have 'picked up the wrong file' for the data conversion.

Brilliant.

God I feel sorry for K - she had sunk weeks into this and had done her bit without fault - and then to be knee capped like this. Should be ready for testing now around 11pm..

Bugger, to put it mildly.

Fact

It is not possible for a suited man to wear a scarf without looking effeminate. It is simply not possible.

From dictionary.com

ef·fem·i·nate /adj. ɪˈfɛmənɪt; v. ɪˈfɛməˌneɪt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[adj. i-fem-uh-nit; v. i-fem-uh-neyt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation adjective, verb, -nat·ed, -nat·ing. –adjective

1.	(of a man or boy) having traits, tastes, habits, etc., traditionally considered feminine, as softness or delicacy.

2.	characterized by excessive softness, delicacy, self-indulgence, etc.: effeminate luxury.

Now I am not saying that London is full of big gay homosexuals, but sorry lads, read the definition.

It is soft.

Don't get me started on those snuggly black leather gloves!

Thanks for the messages!

But MJD and Sus - still waiting for the cards :-( But can't complain after years of being utterly crap!

I had a nice enough day, but it was pretty much work as usual. But in the evening went out for a couple of drinks and pub kai with K. Being a Monday - it was all suitably restrained - but we did discover a new local, 'The Washington', so we achieved something!

Talked to Ma and MJD and it sounds like all is well back home.

Ma - thanks for the photos - I had the girls in the office coo'ing over the kids (but no offers of 'inky' services!). Will keep working on that one. I might even talk to potential inky's on a different companies payroll. Good things take time...

Happy Birthday to me!

Your adulation please.

Boys - you're going to hell for this one!

Well I did say I liked big weather

And today we got it. London 'enjoyed' an inner city tornado today - and not far from my pad as well.

Six hurt as tornado hits London

Up to 150 houses and many cars were damaged when the freak weather hit the Kensal Rise area.

One man in his 50s suffered a serious head injury and five were treated for minor injuries and shock.

Fire services have sealed six roads in a zone covering a quarter of a square mile and searched at least 100 homes.

Fire crews were called at about 1100 GMT on Thursday to Chamberlayne Road and surrounding streets, amid reports of collapsed scaffolding and damage to buildings.

I just wish I had been home at the time. Sad for the people affected - but there is something very impressive when nature goes nuts. Is that weird?!?!?!

Am I that bland?

It was a whim. Last night when laying out the kit for today I decided to go for the black suit, black shirt with stripes and no tie. As I say - it was a whim (Dolly - you would call it a moment of madness) - but Lord, did I underestimate the impact that such a trifling decision could make.

Out of the first fifteen people I saw at work - not one did not pass comment. 'Looking dapper' was one such comment. 'My god, you look like James Bond today' was another from a Russian stunner which was very happily received.

But then it dawned on me. If such a mild change could invoke such a response - then what does that say for 'the norm'?

Is my day to day appearance that dull?

I shall ponder that - but in the meantime, tomorrows kit has been laid out.

Black suit, black and white shirt, black and white tie. Black socks, black shoes, black boxers.

I'm not the type to draw attention to myself!

Lesson learnt! ;-)

Good job

From the Dom today:

Email thieves will soon be caught, Hide tells Parliament
06 December 2006

Hackers who stole former National Party leader Don Brash's e-mails would soon be caught, ACT leader Rodney Hide said yesterday.

Speaking in Parliament during a debate on the Government's spam-fighting bill, he said the e-mails used in Nicky Hager's book The Hollow Men revealed "a degree of political espionage we have never seen in New Zealand or any western country before".

Whatever your political leanings - surely you must be anti blatant theft of personal property. A quick scan back through my emails lead to a fairly significant purge (yes, off the server as well!).

A believe it's called a cautionary tale!