The Shortest Days
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 01:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tamaranthI seem to have been atypically quiet, here, for a while. Let's see:
1. I hate the new posting interface with a pure and vivid hatred (it messed up my last-but-one post and lost one altogether).
2. Virgin (who, you may recall, were messing me about while I was away) have been trying to make it up to me. First, they said it with flowers: a huge bouquet -- the cats are still having fun with the box, tho'![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
residentevil666 is scared of it now, hahaha -- and then they wrote me a very apologetic letter, admitting that they were indeed crap and enclosing £30 of vouchers.
3. Have had my first annual review at FabCompany. In fact, my first annual review anywhere for about 12 years. It was very nice. Because they rely on customer feedback as well as boss's opinion -- and because they like me and think I do OK, despite a year of illness and upheaval -- it was very constructive, and I didn't even mind the negative bits. (Decoupled from actual salary review, which is tomorrow.)
4. FabCompany gave every employee a Christmas hamper from Lucy's of Ambleside.
5. I spent the weekend in Plymouth with my sister, and despite (?because of) far too much wine, we had some interesting conversations. And a trip to the beach. And she was quiet for nearly five minutes on Sunday afternoon. (It's not the conversations I mind: quite the contrary. It's the stream-of-consciousness, self-interrupting monologue.)
6. Am feeling cheerful about Christmas, yay! (Helped immensely by the fact that Citilink, who to date have been dishonest about attempts to deliver Big Parcel, have apparently delivered at last -- just in the nick of time.)
7. Have had a lousy stomach bug more or less since Hong Kong. But it seems to have gone at last.
8. Have written all Yuletide thingies. Ho ho ho.
9. Have walked in the pretty glowing frosty fog, in the copse. (It was rose-pink this morning when I sneaked down the M23 past stationary lanes of traffic going elsewhere. Am enjoying this driving lark now. Though less so in the dark.)
10. How the hell have I missed The Sonics for all these years? Glares at music-loving portions of f-list. I've belatedly* discovered the Best Christmas Song Ever, nestling halfway through DJ Riko's Merry Mixmas 2006 ... you can find it linked here.
Oh, and 11. On Christmas Day the days start getting longer again!
* i.e. too late for Yule06 CD ...
1. I hate the new posting interface with a pure and vivid hatred (it messed up my last-but-one post and lost one altogether).
2. Virgin (who, you may recall, were messing me about while I was away) have been trying to make it up to me. First, they said it with flowers: a huge bouquet -- the cats are still having fun with the box, tho'
residentevil666 is scared of it now, hahaha -- and then they wrote me a very apologetic letter, admitting that they were indeed crap and enclosing £30 of vouchers.3. Have had my first annual review at FabCompany. In fact, my first annual review anywhere for about 12 years. It was very nice. Because they rely on customer feedback as well as boss's opinion -- and because they like me and think I do OK, despite a year of illness and upheaval -- it was very constructive, and I didn't even mind the negative bits. (Decoupled from actual salary review, which is tomorrow.)
4. FabCompany gave every employee a Christmas hamper from Lucy's of Ambleside.
5. I spent the weekend in Plymouth with my sister, and despite (?because of) far too much wine, we had some interesting conversations. And a trip to the beach. And she was quiet for nearly five minutes on Sunday afternoon. (It's not the conversations I mind: quite the contrary. It's the stream-of-consciousness, self-interrupting monologue.)
6. Am feeling cheerful about Christmas, yay! (Helped immensely by the fact that Citilink, who to date have been dishonest about attempts to deliver Big Parcel, have apparently delivered at last -- just in the nick of time.)
7. Have had a lousy stomach bug more or less since Hong Kong. But it seems to have gone at last.
8. Have written all Yuletide thingies. Ho ho ho.
9. Have walked in the pretty glowing frosty fog, in the copse. (It was rose-pink this morning when I sneaked down the M23 past stationary lanes of traffic going elsewhere. Am enjoying this driving lark now. Though less so in the dark.)
10. How the hell have I missed The Sonics for all these years? Glares at music-loving portions of f-list. I've belatedly* discovered the Best Christmas Song Ever, nestling halfway through DJ Riko's Merry Mixmas 2006 ... you can find it linked here.
Oh, and 11. On Christmas Day the days start getting longer again!
* i.e. too late for Yule06 CD ...
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Date: Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 01:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 02:06 pm (UTC)Re #8, was actually more on yuletide treasure. Which I would point you at, were the site not having a rest.
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Date: Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 02:12 pm (UTC)(Am very much enjoying other people's habits of writing fic for each other as a holiday gift and posting it where I can benefit too.)
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Date: Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 02:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 08:31 pm (UTC)Take Good Bugs! They'll see off those nasssssty Lousy Bugs! And can apparently help ward off colds too...
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Date: Thursday, December 21st, 2006 09:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Thursday, December 21st, 2006 12:28 pm (UTC)Actually I seem to recall that she got some of the chewable fruity tablets instead - no geletin. They're not quite as effective (IMHO) but you're allowed to take 2 at a time... I assume you're still house-sharing - if so, ask - she may have some left.
* 'cos antib's knock out all your interior bugs, and you do need some!
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Date: Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 10:20 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: Thursday, December 21st, 2006 09:31 am (UTC)http://www.halesowenweather.co.uk/sunrise_sunset_times.htm
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