Grumpy Old Man
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
38C yesterday, and I felt like shit - full cold n flu symptoms.
COVID positive this morning. Fuck.
37C day inbound. FUCK.After 4 days of feeling like shit, I've downgraded to "feeling flat" and taking no medication for ~24 hours. The end is in sight., and the weather has cooled.
Stepped on the scales this morning - the complete lack of appetite, combined with sucking down fluids and not lifting weights for a week, has resulted in my weight falling below 105kg for the first time probably this year.
Not all bad then
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
38C yesterday, and I felt like shit - full cold n flu symptoms.
COVID positive this morning. Fuck.
37C day inbound. FUCK.After 4 days of feeling like shit, I've downgraded to "feeling flat" and taking no medication for ~24 hours. The end is in sight., and the weather has cooled.
Stepped on the scales this morning - the complete lack of appetite, combined with sucking down fluids and not lifting weights for a week, has resulted in my weight falling below 105kg for the first time probably this year.
Not all bad then
Well that was a lot of fucken whining about nothing then wasn’t it?
😎
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Feeling a little bit of the grumply old fella today. Got back from 5-6 week holiday to UK yesterday, and actually feeling about 100 yo . Not sure it used to take this much out of me.
Still was probably best holiday me and Mrs Dan have had so, just let me feel good enough to remember everyting with a smile on face. -
Anyway feeling better now, surprising what a couple of days will do! Just a note to @MiketheSnow , mate your country Wales I loved more can I say. I think watching tests at Welsh pubs were brilliant, I think one of reasons I enjoyed it ,I found I met a lot of people that loved rugby as much as myself (and many on here) . A real deep passion for the game, not screaming about how team is going, just seemed a little sad at the problems the game having there.. Found the people real warm and welcoming too.I will add wandering into Cardiff Arms Park was a buzz for me, someone of my age, it still ranks as one of the great rugby stadiums historically, and will always remember hearing crowds singing there etc when I listened to games as a kid.
I also say the highlight of whole trip may just of been I went to the Rugby School , the place where it all started. Women in the shop there took me over to their museum and gave me a bit of tour as she seemed to think I was a rugby nutter. Also got a pic of me on their field, a big nono generally, as you not meant to even be in school grounds if not a pupil etc, she just said tell security man I said it ok. You can't even just go in and watch a game of rugby there when they playing, as it for the school only! -
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Dan54 said in Grumpy Old Man:
You can't even just go in and watch a game of rugby there when they playing, as it for the school only!
Because private school piston wristed gibbons with buck teeth and inbreeding. That's why.
<said in Darth Vader voice>
the bitterness is strong in this one.
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@Dan54 said in Grumpy Old Man:
I also say the highlight of whole trip may just of been I went to the Rugby School , the place where it all started. Women in the shop there took me over to their museum and gave me a bit of tour as she seemed to think I was a rugby nutter. Also got a pic of me on their field, a big nono generally, as you not meant to even be in school grounds if not a pupil etc, she just said tell security man I said it ok. You can't even just go in and watch a game of rugby there when they playing, as it for the school only!
Even played there.
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@Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:
the bitterness is strong in this one.
I've noticed no one seems to visit official Empire taverns for serious drinking. I question the Empire's longevity, deathstar or not.
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@nzzp said in Grumpy Old Man:
Music between overs at a Test Match.
Fuck. Off.
If your attention span is so low you need entertainment for 15 seconds, piss off back to T20 shits and giggles.
this! the quiet hum of a test match crowd is one of its absolute joys, just fuck off back to fucking up rugby with your shit music
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fluffybunnies at work who come to you a fortnight out from Christmas, saying they've got a change needing sign-off by January 17. FMD pal I'm on leave for three weeks during that period. And I'm literally the only one who can do that work.
And the files are wrong in 20% of cases, compared to my database...
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
fluffybunnies at work who come to you a fortnight out from Christmas, saying they've got a change needing sign-off by January 17. FMD pal I'm on leave for three weeks during that period. And I'm literally the only one who can do that work.
And the files are wrong in 20% of cases, compared to my database...
That's the problem for you IT nerds isn't it? You control the systems and own the world except you are dependent upon illiterates to put in the actual data. And we're shit at it.
LOOOOOOOOOL!
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@Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:
That's the problem for you IT nerds isn't it? You control the systems and own the world except you are dependent upon illiterates to put in the actual data. And we're shit at it.
LOOOOOOOOOL!
The data is fine - it is the way it is organised in terms of column order
so this is, in fact, an IT fuckup, but not my fuckup.The actual issue is middle managers who have no fucking idea how to keep a project on time and on budget, or communicate to critical stakeholders (i.e. me) when they're doing system changes.
This was supposed to be completed a month ago. I got one email for the kick-off back in April and nothing since.
Dicks.
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:
That's the problem for you IT nerds isn't it? You control the systems and own the world except you are dependent upon illiterates to put in the actual data. And we're shit at it.
LOOOOOOOOOL!
The data is fine - it is the way it is organised in terms of column order
so this is, in fact, an IT fuckup, but not my fuckup.The actual issue is middle managers who have no fucking idea how to keep a project on time and on budget, or communicate to critical stakeholders (i.e. me) when they're doing system changes.
This was supposed to be completed a month ago. I got one email for the kick-off back in April and nothing since.
Dicks.
The important thing is your governance, project managers, change managers and PMO are earning their coin...
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@antipodean And getting their bonuses like everyone else.
