work

here is walter attacking himself with some wires.

here is jim in a bow tie. when i started working here i used to sit next to jim, but now he’s in a different building. it’s nice to see him over here and i thought you’d like to see him too.

i’m giving a talk at a conference in september and they’ve asked for a head and shoulders picture to accompany my written paper. so i stood by the window as john the telecoms engineer took my photo.
it was hard to strike a balance between total fool and utter nutter. but i think i managed it.
it took me ages to put all that masking tape across the window.

and here is one i took of me looking more jovial:

apologies for this unnecessary me-ness. it doesn’t happen very often (thankfully)

it’s another day of manic working from home trying to meet my last current horrible deadline (before the next horrible deadlines come along tomorrow) …
having dragged myself out of bed at 4.30 i was keen to get straight to work. but the world of computers is never that helpful and i ended up having to reinstall Acrobat reader to read a document.
somewhere in this process, this little message popped up which i read as ‘recomposting data’ which is a much nicer concept. perhaps it’s a form of ‘organic digitalisation’.

you’ll be pleased to know that everything is working well again.

here is poorly pete. he popped in to work to say hello on the way back from a hospital visit yesterday. he says hello. (well he did to us in the office anyway, so i suspect he’d say hello to you call too).

it’s deadline galore at work at the moment. but things might calm down after next week (i hope)
meanwhle i’ve just finished a 13 hour working day. i started at 4.15am and have just decided to stop. unfortunately i’m working from home so no-one realy knows that.
so i thought i’d tell you instead.
thanks for listening

pete’s gone flying round scotland. as you do.
we’ve been taking it in turns wearing his shoes round the office.
of course we haven’t as anotherman’s shoes are his castle. but i did take a photo of them:

are these people checking for localness ?

i’ve been on a voice call all morning. whilst chatting i noticed some disquiet outside my office window. it was harry and the drinks machine man.
apparently there had been a mix up with plastic cups. can you BELIEVE this kind of thing can happen in the modern world.
luckily our man Harry spotted the problem and everything is alright again now.
here is ‘harry two cups’ with the vexatiously varient vessels:

if you think the blog entries today have been a bit tedious, then you haven’t seen what my working day has been like ! it’s all thanks to all the stuff published here yesterday. Yes, they are all as exciting as they sound. [actually some of them are quite exciting but you won’t catch me admitting that in public]

but never mind. because it’s now the bank holiday weekend. hoorah for 3 days of non-work (for me at least – jane’s still marking exam papers).

i’ve just received a letter in our internal mail with these two post-its randomly attached to the envelope. very mysterious.

update: interestingly the contents of the letter was from (and about) Wales. makes you think …

walter is one of my colleagues. he’s been on holiday for a week and now he’d back. he’s still in the holiday mood and was pleased to model his new baseball hat.

we’ve not had an odd-job-pete update for a while. so here he is mending his watch.
do you see he’s got a needle and thread ? that’s so he can do a stitch in time.

my colleague john just sent me this picture he took of me working at my desk viewed from his desk. he’s such a cheeky chap.
i look deep in thought because i was.

here is the lecture theatre i’m about to speak at !

it turns out my colleague john is a wire-worker. his chosen medium is the telephone wire.

here is my colleague walter with drinks and foods.