1. Finished a project, updated a video, rendered some product shots, prepped an estimate all before 3pm. Bulls-eyeing womp rats in my T-16 today.

2. Payday eve, finaaaaaly.

3. The sun has come out to play.

1.) I took over a technical account in October, and on the weekly call this morning, was told that the Project Management team was "super-happy" with the work me and the team was providing, adding it was "so much better" now than before I took over.  

I'm still not getting my hopes up, but I'm hoping stuff like this will count for something when the consultancy period is up in February.

1. Payday
2. Moussaka for tea
3. Yak 0 on

1- I played an hour of Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth over my lunchtime whilst wrapped up in a big snuggly blanket.
2- I had a big proper vent at my line manager and he actually agreed with all of my points and reassured me that things WILL change.
3- I made slow cooker veggie enchiladas for dinner and they smell AMAZING

1) My eldest overcame a massive barrier at Uni.  There are a lot yet to come for her, but as it's been really difficult for a long time, but it's a relief to see something going right for her. 
2) She's literally just written a long essay about the evidence for the importance of good relationships between fathers and daughters and cited me as her inspiration for doing so which was genuinely lovely.
3) My other daughter has rediscovered her love for video games since I showed her Wonderlands which is weirdly pleasing.  (We used to play together all the time, and then she essentially stopped for ages...)

tin_robot wrote:

1) My eldest overcame a massive barrier at Uni.  There are a lot yet to come for her, but as it's been really difficult for a long time, but it's a relief to see something going right for her.  2) She's literally just written a long essay about the evidence for the importance of good relationships between fathers and daughters and cited me as her inspiration for doing so which was genuinely lovely.

Those two can be my one, two and three for today.

I really should try and not be so grumpy, not let shit get me down, and try my best to look at the bright side of things and hold on to the little things, so...

2. Went through some of my videogame prints with the wife and kids and enjoyed just ooing and aahing and discussing which could go where if/when we frame some of them.  I cited the cost of framing as why I haven't done it yet, wife offered to pay for two to be framed and go up, "just get it framed and put them up" as she said.  Yeah, just do it.

3. New protein shake and protein bars arrived, gonna try the shake before bed and a bar maybe tomorrow.  It was from a website called Healf who stock items by Transparent Labs, a brand I used to import many moons ago until it got too expensive and also customs stopped my whey protein once and warned me - I didn't even know you can't import whey protein or other milk-based products!

1.) We got through January!
2.) The feeling of constant dread from yesterday has dissipated. 
3.) I can't remember the exact date already, but I'm not too far away from two months sober.

1) Bday top present of a new Chinese cleaver - will be heavily used tomorrow
2) Off for the biggest Indian grill lunch 
3) Playing Infinite Wealth on the sofa this afternoon as the missus has brought a jigsaw for herself

1. My vinyl arrived. The Playable Collection by glassjaw. A band that always do things weirdly, of course they announced a 30th anniversary lp collection only available from one retailer in the US. But I got mines and it is glorious.

2. New sneaker day too! Went and collected a smashing deal I got on some Air Max 1's from Offspring. Whips looking clean. Webbs and Mark should be proud.

3. Seventh and last backshift. Thank fuck. Off to St Andrews on Saturday for a wedding. Nice.

afgavinstan wrote:

1. My vinyl arrived. The Playable Collection by glassjaw. A band that always do things weirdly, of course they announced a 30th anniversary lp collection only available from one retailer in the US. But I got mines and it is glorious. 2. New sneaker day too! Went and collected a smashing deal I got on some Air Max 1's from Offspring. Whips looking clean. Webbs and Mark should be proud. 3. Seventh and last backshift. Thank fuck. Off to St Andrews on Saturday for a wedding. Nice.

I didn't know Offspring had branched out.  Hope their selling is better than their music.

Tbh the recent Adidas x Korn collab was class


YA YA YA YA YA

And it was very much appreciated:-)

Top work on no.1. Enjoy Feb.

1) Friday innit. Takeaway edible beer night.
2) Home alone all weekend. Apart from walking the dog, nothing on. Cyberpunk and films await.
3) Discovered at work they're stress testing a new telephony/ICBM/CSaaS system (Genesys) I know in and out and used to troubleshoot in my old role. Pinged off a couple of critical problems I found previously, which are hard to pick up until integration, to the guy leading it. They now want me on the support/stress team for the system which will body VERY well for the IS role I've applied for. They weren't aware they already had an experienced user of the system within the business so wanna rack my brains.