TimovieMan

I feel like a lot of those can count as causes for bore-out as well... 🤔

Still can't read "Onederland" without thinking of 'That Thing You Do!'. 😇

Happy to read this. I never understood the fandom rivalries between Star Wars fans and Trekkies. Why can't one not like both? Also, racism is WAY better than astrology... 😅

Sounds a bit like my brother-in-law's MO. He adores our kids, but they're just as much reminders to him on exactly why he doesn't want any of his own... 😅

Walk to Mordor Distance walked last week: 42.23 km (26.24 miles) Road to Mordor: total 1461.0 miles - Rauros to Mount Doom - Mar. 3 - Day 8 since Rauros In random news: I forgot to weigh in on Friday. Need reminders for this, now that I'm no longer working from home on Fridays. Also burnt my left index finger while making pancakes on Sunday. Grabbed the pan's handle too close to the pan itself (where the handle was iron instead of rubber). Nothing Flammazine and gauze couldn't alleviate - after keeping my finger under cold running water for a while. The burn's hardly visible any more. In hindsight, I kind of wish I had made more of a fuss about the burn, if only to show the kids that just dealing with it is better than whining about it... 😅 Although overselling it would negate that point entirely. 😏 Here are two songs. The first one is the main theme for the game 'Cyberpunk 2077', the other is Daft Punk's 'The Grid' from the 'Tron: Legacy' soundtrack. Because the beginning of the former reminds me so much of the latter, but I can't seem to find any others expressing the same online, so it might just be in my head. What do you guys think??? 😋 Marcin Przybyłowicz - V's Theme Daft Punk - The Grid Basically, after about 14 seconds in the main menu for Cyberpunk 2077, I start hearing Jeff Bridges going "The Grid. A digital frontier..." 😅

Weekend recap: Topped Friday off with a bag of crisps. Took TimovieDaughter to an extra football practice on Saturday morning. The trainer rightfully cancelled all competitive matches because too many players are new and the team's just not ready yet. So every match they would have had at home is now an extra practice session. Since it was just training, I didn't stick around to watch and went for a walk around the lake. It's adjacent to the football grounds. Trip to the recycling center in the afternoon. Lazy evening with the kids (as Mrs. Movieman went out with friends). Mrs. Movieman took her godchild to a children's show on Sunday - and TimovieSon went with them (but he regretted it afterwards - he was at least twice as old as the target audience). I stayed at home with TimovieDaughter, and made a batch of waffles and pancakes for when Mrs. Movieman'd return. While I did pretty solidly calorie-wise, a LOT of the calories over the weekend were carbs, so ultimately not the healthiest of weekends. But at least no food extravaganza. Worked from home yesterday, at the office today. These two days have somehow been filled with work appreciation for me. The coworker that sits in front of me at the office was in a meeting with our managers about a data project. When they requested a new bit of data to be added to a large working list, they started arguing about who could pull that data, and how they were going to process it. Management didn't listen when my coworker pointed out that *I* would be able to do that, and they just continued arguing. So she worked proactively and started a chat session with me. By the time management had decided to put the new data in a separate file in the project folder, they were baffled to find that the data was already there. Got a call in the afternoon from another colleague who apologized in advance for having me revisit an older ticket, but then he proceeded to explain in detail how important my data exports are for his team securing a major sales contract, and giving feedback on why we needed to revisit that ticket. Hardly anyone ever does that, and I greatly appreciate people telling me why something is urgent instead of just saying it's urgent without explanation. And then today we had a department meeting with all teams - including the team that's across the country and the team in the US. Basically we had 4 different speakers explaining the biggest / most impactful projects they were working on... and ALL of them were using my data, and namedropped me specifically - to an audience of 100+ - as being a huge help. I didn't even know the projects were that important for half of them. I was just doing my job. But it certainly made me feel like the centre of the department. 😇 After that meeting, I get back to my desk, and there's an email waiting for me with a request for a status update on a ticket from last week (without specified deadlines, I basically have two weeks to handle tickets, to give me leeway in my own planning). The wording was "how is my superhero doing with my question?". Let's just say that job satisfaction is pretty high at the moment... 😁

Most were from the WYSIWYG editor. The converted ones usually aren't quite the ones I want, so I hardly ever use those. The bees were taken from the tooltip options after starting to type ":bee". At least the first one, the rest were then probably copy-pasted from that one. What I *have* always noticed is that the emojis look slightly different on my private laptop than on my work laptop. Despite both running Windows 11 and using Google Chrome. Before the forum migration, I mean. Haven't yet checked on my work laptop now.

Saturday: Sunday: Monday: Today:

On Friday: 20 scissors - 🐝 30 seconds punches - 🐝 20 tap side lunges - 🐝 On Sunday: 30 seconds side plank hold - 🐝 (30s left, 30s right) So naturally, I'm trailing a few again... 😇

From my own thread: The ? at the end of each line was definitely an emoji. Same with the DailyDare thread: These were all 🐝 (except the last one which, knowing myself, was either 😎 or 🤘) Pretty sure these were all taken from the forum's own editor.

Yay, the forums are back up! So far, the only noticeable thing is that smilies have been replaced by ? in every thread. 🤔 Edit: except new ones, apparently. 😇

Ribs were delicious this evening. Slow-cooked them (1 hour in the oven at 150°C - 45 minutes under tin foil, the last 15 open) and they were so tender and practically fell off the bone. TimovieSon tried one as well... and consequently left half of the meat on it with a credulous "how do you do that?" at the clean-picked ribs that I leave behind... ? In random news: brother-in-law had taken a picture of Floeffie, our oldest cat, a while ago. A picture that wound up becoming something of a running gag here, as it could give "grumpy cat" a run for its money. He now had a shopping bag made with the picture on it, as well as a T-shirt he intends to wear at metal concerts... ? This is the picture: Even now, the kids are in stitches by seeing this picture on my screen... ?

I thought you were targeted and just played it up for your team. I'm used to HR passive-aggressively sending out targeted "reminders", so I made an assumption. Sorry. I have in the past had a "reminder" about my internet use (after a month where I had made several VBA macros for some colleagues, so my internet use was legitimate work-related research). Last year I had a remark about "clocking irregularities" because when working from home I usually didn't clock out for lunch. Because my lunch break was basically me watching the 1 pm news broadcast for 25 minutes, with my laptop next to me (so I wasn't even *really* on a break), as the system automatically deducts half an hour for lunch break if you don't clock out. My then-teamlead had my back with a "Fuck HR" that time. And just two weeks ago, HR reminded me that I still had "a lot" of vacation days this year, and were urging me to take them. I had 7 days left, 3 of which only became available on October 1st, and 1 of which still isn't available. While working in a position where I don't have any colleagues to take into account for permanence. I can plan vacation days just a week in advance, and the idea has always been to take any "leftover" days between Christmas and New Year's. Good thing my current teamlead said: "I'm just the messenger. Feel free to ignore HR." Because he hadn't realised it was about a mere 7 days and not 14+. The worst was at a previous employer. The company's concierge lived in the on-site house with his wife and kids. When his wife filed for divorce, HR was *so* humane that they immediately fired him and threw him out of the house. Because the concierge's contract stated that the house was to be occupied by a family. Way to kick someone while he's down. So yeah, not too fond of "reminders" by HR... ?