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A minor work nemesis (harmless but annoying) is being packed off on secondment. Hopefully not to be replaced!

finding out that The Ex are rehearsing and playing again after a very long break. Fingers crossed for a London gig in 2024. I had feared one of them was ill or something and they were just going to quietly fade away.

Yesterday was the first day in months where I've had no responsibilities apart from doing a bit of housework in the morning so I: - went to town for a nice Chinese lunch - had a pint in one of my fav pubs - bought some cds, including one I thought I was going to have to resort to buying on...

Bought myself a pair of budget desktop pc speakers (Creative Pebble Plus) and can't believe I didn't think of this before. A big quality of life improvement for working from home.

Bought an extension cable for my headphones so now sat at my work desk listening to cds on the hifi instead of Spotify on my phone. It sounds glorious and I'm not going to try to do a blind comparison in case it turns out I can't tell the difference.

'dogging in' may have been a bit of an exaggeration! perhaps more like investigating up close?! fairly sure it isn't the first time!

one of the cats was dogging into some chocolate spread on toast this morning and now his head just smells like chocolate spread. to balance it out the other one just smells like litter tray.

no bread in the house for toast so I soft boiled an egg and cut a waffle into soliders (is there a less Brit-y name for them?). Can't believe it's taken me nine months of working from home breakfasts to do that.

Three months into working from home and I just cleared all the work shirts out of my wardrobe and shoved them well out of sight.

I bought a pair of wireless earbuds for the first time so now I can cook and clean with some high quality sounds in my ears without lugging my phone around in my pocket.

My right ear was blocked for nearly a week and it sorted itself last night.

an exam I had scheduled for Monday was just cancelled which means I don't have to spend three days this week cramming a mind numbing 300 page textbook to pass a tickbox exercise for future work progression.

I posted a form which has been on my to do list for at least 12 months. It took all of about five minutes.

I wish! No Dublin visit for me this year. I'm stuck at home trying to prevent the kittens from toppling the Christmas tree for the duration.

Moved to a new flat recently and one of the cats from next door came in the bedroom window yesterday unprompted and is mad friendly. He'll do until we sort out getting one of out own.

I put two copies of the same book (£15 each) into my basket on Amazon yesterday for Christmas presents. They've gone down to £5 today. Stay tuned for my minor complaint when the price rises before I can get my order completed later...

I had a mug of tea with a Penguin bar today for the first time in years. Very nice.

it turns out that 33% of my department is veggie so the first suggestion for Christmas party venue has been vetoed in favour of somewhere with good non-meaty options which turns out to be a decent Mexican place. Wahey!

It's a bit chilly in the office today. This is a minor pleasure because that means I can start wearing jumpers soon which means no more ironing work shirts until well into 2016.

sitting down with a few beers and listening to some music in the living room for the first time in ages.