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Well 2014 sucked, 2015 good (?)

glennPattonWork31-Jan-15 0:41

1-Jan-15 0:41

Hi,
Happy New year, 2014 sucked the lemon for me, getting the sack (regulars will know of problems) and to cap it all a friend came up to Bristol for the New Year, ensuring a great deal of alcohol infused silliness, when low and behold I get a phone call from my Mum, Dad is not well. Thanks to my flat mate for driving me back home at silly speed and another friend of mine for coming too. An Ambulance arrived and I got to see A&E on New Years eve.
Bazar thing was one the Paramedics in the ambulance I went to school with and she was the one that recognised me (?). My Dad was taken in and diagnosed with an infection that caused the problem. So I spent New Year sober (?) and bored out of my mind. Possible good thing one the interviews I had the HR department have to sign off and I am good to go. So do I think I am owed one by karma & the universe, that is for you gentle reader to decide.
Must feed the fish... Sigh | :sigh:

Re: Well 2014 sucked, 2015 good (?)

OriginalGriff1-Jan-15 0:47

OriginalGriff

1-Jan-15 0:47

Trust me, when you are in A&E with a parent, "bored out of my mind" is a very good thing: when people start to rush round and do lots it's not good news!

It sucks to be there on NYE, but it probably sucked more for your Dad...

Hope your 2015 works out a lot better that your 2014! Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

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Re: Well 2014 sucked, 2015 good (?)

glennPattonWork31-Jan-15 0:50

glennPattonWork3

1-Jan-15 0:50

Thanks!

Re: Well 2014 sucked, 2015 good (?)

_Maxxx_1-Jan-15 1:09

_Maxxx_

1-Jan-15 1:09

Just the universe finishing off a bad year with a bit of a scare - giving you ample warning that 2015 (aka quarter past eight) is going to be just awesome.

We await another change of pseudonym in the next few days.

Wink | ;)

P.S. hope the pater is recovered fully.

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Re: Well 2014 sucked, 2015 good (?)

glennPattonWork31-Jan-15 1:48

glennPattonWork3

1-Jan-15 1:48

Thanks for that, just wanted to finish off the year face down in vomit like it started! Instead I got to watch most Jools Holland sober with my Mum, not really the intention but a lot better than lunch time.

Re: Well 2014 sucked, 2015 good (?)

Pete O'Hanlon1-Jan-15 1:30

Pete O'Hanlon

1-Jan-15 1:30

2014 was a major sucky year. It's just finished off in style - but it's good to know that your dad's okay. Best wishes for 2015.

Re: Well 2014 sucked, 2015 good (?)

glennPattonWork31-Jan-15 1:49

glennPattonWork3

1-Jan-15 1:49

Thanks for that. Best wishes Smile | :)

**** still haven't fed the fish!

Re: Well 2014 sucked, 2015 good (?)

DaveAuld1-Jan-15 2:35

DaveAuld

1-Jan-15 2:35

Well hope your dad makes a full recovery and your 2015 turns out just fine!

I too spent new year sober, with me just back from work and the wife just driven up the road from relatives, I think we were both sound asleep by about 11pm. Never seen the bells...

It 13:30 and I still haven't a drink yet! The wife is cooking, getting ready for tomorrows bash. I am away to take the christmas tree down to make more room in the lounge.

I might just crack a beer open.... Smile | :)

Dave
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Re: Well 2014 sucked, 2015 good (?)

glennPattonWork31-Jan-15 2:59

glennPattonWork3

1-Jan-15 2:59

Cheers, sadly can't join in the brew, have to drive!

Re: Well 2014 sucked, 2015 good (?)

Gary R. Wheeler1-Jan-15 2:55

Gary R. Wheeler

1-Jan-15 2:55

Agreed. 2014 was highly sub-optimal for me as well. I sincerely hope 2015 is an improvement.

Software Zen: delete this;

Re: Well 2014 sucked, 2015 good (?)

glennPattonWork31-Jan-15 7:21

glennPattonWork3

1-Jan-15 7:21

Cheers man!

Re: Well 2014 sucked, 2015 good (?)

Nagy Vilmos1-Jan-15 6:40

Nagy Vilmos

1-Jan-15 6:40

Hope yer da's up and at 'em real danged soon.

AS for Karma, she's a bitch and I'm still not talking to the stuck up cow.

Eat the fish.

veni bibi saltavi

Re: Well 2014 sucked, 2015 good (?)

glennPattonWork31-Jan-15 7:19

glennPattonWork3

1-Jan-15 7:19

Cheers Nagy, all the best. Its gone monumentally wrong, the upshot is if the Catberts at the last company I interviewed at get there act together quickly I may start the year with a paying contract Smile | :)

OK - well maybe next Xmas

_Maxxx_1-Jan-15 0:26

_Maxxx_

1-Jan-15 0:26

Tney have these monitors[^] on sale this weekend at my local computer store - for AU$1299.

Far more than I can afford to pay for a monitor.

But I'd love to try one out!

Any rich bastards our there giving one a go?

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Re: OK - well maybe next Xmas

OriginalGriff1-Jan-15 0:39

OriginalGriff

1-Jan-15 0:39

I'll give it a miss this year and maybe wait for the next generation. I'd need a bigger room to get a bigger desk into!

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Re: OK - well maybe next Xmas

_Maxxx_1-Jan-15 0:53

_Maxxx_

1-Jan-15 0:53

I'm in the market for a bigger desk for the home office, too.

I currently have one of those cheapo glass desks[^] - I think it cost me $39 for an L-Shaped small desk - fine and dandy in the old hose - but this house my office is about 5m square - so lots of room for a real desk - so I'm on the lookout of a cheap but large corner desk - where that monitor would just look lovely!

Something like this[^] would be nice !

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Re: OK - well maybe next Xmas

OriginalGriff1-Jan-15 0:59

OriginalGriff

1-Jan-15 0:59

_Maxxx_ wrote:
where that monitor would just look lovely!

Yes, but...you really want four:

     MMMM
MMMM MMMM MMMM

DDDDDDDDDDDDDD
      CC

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Re: OK - well maybe next Xmas

_Maxxx_1-Jan-15 1:04

_Maxxx_

1-Jan-15 1:04

I was thinking more of

                   mmmm  MMMMMMMM
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDM
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDM
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDM
                       DDDDDDDDDM
                       DDDDDDDDDM
        CC             DDDDDDDDDM
                       DDDDDDDDDM
                       DDDDDDDDD
                       DDDDDDDDDm
                       DDDDDDDDDm
                       DDDDDDDDDm
                       DDDDDDDDD

'cause its a curved screen and a corner desk!

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Re: OK - well maybe next Xmas

_Damian S_1-Jan-15 12:15

_Damian S_

1-Jan-15 12:15

Are your monitors attached to the wall? They aren't on the desk!! Poke tongue | ;-P

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Re: OK - well maybe next Xmas

_Maxxx_1-Jan-15 16:12

_Maxxx_

1-Jan-15 16:12

I originally did try a

DDDDDDDDDDDDDD
DDDDDDDmmmmmD
DDDDDDDDDDDDDD
DDDDDDDDDDDDDD
DDDDDDDDDDDDDD

sort of thing, but got RSI

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Re: OK - well maybe next Xmas

_Damian S_1-Jan-15 17:10

_Damian S_

1-Jan-15 17:10

All those D and M's... it's like being on camp as a teenager!!

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Re: OK - well maybe next Xmas

_Maxxx_1-Jan-15 23:06

_Maxxx_

1-Jan-15 23:06

Design & Marketing?
Dads & Mums?
Deep & Meaningful?

Don't know what sort of camps you went on! Mine involved climbing up Welsh mountains in sleet!

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Re: OK - well maybe next Xmas

_Damian S_2-Jan-15 0:54

_Damian S_

2-Jan-15 0:54

Camps full of teen angst and lots of sitting around talking... Good times!!

Quad skating his way through the world since the early 80's...

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Re: OK - well maybe next Xmas

BillWoodruff1-Jan-15 1:15

BillWoodruff

1-Jan-15 1:15

Happy New Year, _Maxxx_,

I wonder if sitting near a curved monitor would have quite strange effects on your visual perception.

Remember that research which showed that people, in a few days, could adapt to wearing prismatic goggles that showed the world upside-down ? And, then those folks, when the goggles were off, had to re-train their vision.

Too bad we Homo Saps didn't evolve independent eye movement and focus as an add-on to stereoscopy !

cheers, Bill

«A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards ... as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push» Wittgenstein

Re: OK - well maybe next Xmas

_Maxxx_1-Jan-15 1:33

_Maxxx_

1-Jan-15 1:33

BillWoodruff wrote:
Happy New Year

Backatcha!

BillWoodruff wrote:
I wonder if sitting near a curved monitor would have quite strange effects on your visual perception.

I already have problems with my 27" (oh! err!) when I play FPS games (a rare occasion these days, I admit) I actually get slightly motion sick!

A continuous sweep of monitor could indeed be even worse!

But it looks sooooo coooool!

BillWoodruff wrote:
Remember that research which showed that people, in a few days, could adapt to wearing prismatic goggles that showed the world upside-down ? And, then those folks, when the goggles were off, had to re-train their vision.

I remember seeing this on TV years ago (from memory some German chap had done the original work) - there have been a few repeats since.

One thing I have never heard explained is whether they end up seeing upside down, or just adapt to everything.

And I wonder if anyone ever tried it with only one eye...

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