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mjd: @tregeagle Snap. My shift should have been cancelled. Within an hour the #work had run out and I was reduced to collecting and crushing cardboard. It needed to to be done, and it should be done more often because shopping in my gaff can feel rather like dumpster diving. But it made my regular job seem fascinating by comparison. Also, I got a paper cut. Stupid cardboard! I cru https://microblog.mjd.id.au/notice/89572
mjd's status on Monday, 29-Jun-2020 04:42:43 EDT
@tregeagle Snap. My shift should have been cancelled. Within an hour the #work had run out and I was reduced to collecting and crushing cardboard. It needed to to be done, and it should be done more often because shopping in my gaff can feel rather like dumpster diving. But it made my regular job seem fascinating by comparison. Also, I got a paper cut. Stupid cardboard! I cru…
mjd: @tregeagle One can never tell. People tell me I look healthy, so that's one data point. On the upside, I saw Roger at #work last week, and he's looking particularly chipper. I didn't like to inquire too closely, but he says he's treating his time as a bonus, given what he thought were his prospects not so long ago. Has vowed to do no more home renovation. Sounds like a healthy attitude.
mjd's status on Wednesday, 10-Jun-2020 22:40:47 EDT
@tregeagle One can never tell. People tell me I look healthy, so that's one data point. On the upside, I saw Roger at #work last week, and he's looking particularly chipper. I didn't like to inquire too closely, but he says he's treating his time as a bonus, given what he thought were his prospects not so long ago. Has vowed to do no more home renovation. Sounds like a healthy attitude.
mjd: Octopus's Garden has been added to the #work muzak playlist. No! You can't make me hate Ringo! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-BdGchS0yk #Beatles https://microblog.mjd.id.au/attachment/36080
mjd's status on Saturday, 23-May-2020 07:32:52 EDT
Octopus's Garden has been added to the #work muzak playlist. No! You can't make me hate Ringo! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-BdGchS0yk #Beatles https://microblog.mjd.id.au/attachment/36080
mjd: Knocked back #work today because I just physically needed the day off and some quiet. So of course F-bomb Freddy's going off again. Only 2pm and already shouting foul-mouthed abuse at people, to an incongruous soundtrack of laid-back 70s adult contemporary folk-rock. Roll on, post #Covid-19 real estate bust; need some cheap, obnoxious-bogan-free lodgings. #Aloha #Sawtell
mjd's status on Tuesday, 19-May-2020 00:39:47 EDT
Knocked back #work today because I just physically needed the day off and some quiet. So of course F-bomb Freddy's going off again. Only 2pm and already shouting foul-mouthed abuse at people, to an incongruous soundtrack of laid-back 70s adult contemporary folk-rock. Roll on, post #Covid-19 real estate bust; need some cheap, obnoxious-bogan-free lodgings. #Aloha #Sawtell
mjd: Social distancing is apparently over, by grassroots decree. There are so many punters pouring in at #work that I can barely take three steps without being asked for directions. It's positively claustrophobic. One lady apologised for being unfamiliar with the store layout because she ordinarily shops in town, but was driven out to the suburbs by the crush of shoppers there. No https://microblog.mjd.id.au/notice/88488
mjd's status on Sunday, 17-May-2020 05:41:19 EDT
Social distancing is apparently over, by grassroots decree. There are so many punters pouring in at #work that I can barely take three steps without being asked for directions. It's positively claustrophobic. One lady apologised for being unfamiliar with the store layout because she ordinarily shops in town, but was driven out to the suburbs by the crush of shoppers there. No…
mjd: At #work the other day: "Do you guys sell Fred?" Fred? What's Fred? An energy drink? A protein bar? A range of vegan convenience foods? "You know, like needle and fred."
mjd's status on Wednesday, 06-May-2020 19:50:21 EDT
At #work the other day: "Do you guys sell Fred?" Fred? What's Fred? An energy drink? A protein bar? A range of vegan convenience foods? "You know, like needle and fred."
mjd: Seems like there's a grassroots consensus that #covid-19 lockdown is over. Wasn't quite a pre-crisis Saturday at #work today, but a lot of people with little concern over 1.5m spacing, and not a mask or glove to be seen.
mjd's status on Saturday, 02-May-2020 05:38:50 EDT
Seems like there's a grassroots consensus that #covid-19 lockdown is over. Wasn't quite a pre-crisis Saturday at #work today, but a lot of people with little concern over 1.5m spacing, and not a mask or glove to be seen.
mjd: Last time I was at #work I was astonished to find we'd sold out of eggs. #WTF? The paradigmatic example of a food that doesn't keep, and goes off in the most disgusting way; who is hoarding this? https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/things-to-do-with-all-the-eggs-you-have-hoarded
mjd's status on Tuesday, 14-Apr-2020 03:40:43 EDT
Last time I was at #work I was astonished to find we'd sold out of eggs. #WTF? The paradigmatic example of a food that doesn't keep, and goes off in the most disgusting way; who is hoarding this? https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/things-to-do-with-all-the-eggs-you-have-hoarded
mjd: @tregeagle Got home from #work about 7:30am, looking forward to a kip. Half an hour later, some flouro jacket chaps started chainsawing a tree in the Beach Haven carpark and feeding it to a wood chipper, one branch at a time. Now lunchtime and they're still going.
mjd's status on Wednesday, 08-Apr-2020 22:38:26 EDT
@tregeagle Got home from #work about 7:30am, looking forward to a kip. Half an hour later, some flouro jacket chaps started chainsawing a tree in the Beach Haven carpark and feeding it to a wood chipper, one branch at a time. Now lunchtime and they're still going.
mjd: @andyc If the #work drought goes on much longer I may actually upgrade to #GNUSocial 2.x, developed and maintained by that one student. Stranger things have happened / are happening.
mjd's status on Thursday, 02-Apr-2020 07:05:20 EDT
@andyc If the #work drought goes on much longer I may actually upgrade to #GNUSocial 2.x, developed and maintained by that one student. Stranger things have happened / are happening.
mjd: @andyc This one was playing on the muzak at #work until indecently recently. I've never seen the video before. The shopping trolleys are a nice touch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIWgvL7tLfI
mjd's status on Thursday, 02-Apr-2020 06:59:37 EDT
@andyc This one was playing on the muzak at #work until indecently recently. I've never seen the video before. The shopping trolleys are a nice touch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIWgvL7tLfI
mjd: Okay, maybe a reprieve. Apparently there are deliveries scheduled next week. Whether there will be any orders is up to the IT gods. I don't have a sacrificial chicken to hand, but later on I shall be burning a frozen chicken pie in the oven and praying for the website to be up by the end of the week. #work
mjd's status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2020 22:09:41 EDT
Okay, maybe a reprieve. Apparently there are deliveries scheduled next week. Whether there will be any orders is up to the IT gods. I don't have a sacrificial chicken to hand, but later on I shall be burning a frozen chicken pie in the oven and praying for the website to be up by the end of the week. #work
mjd: No #work this week, none next week, thence uncertain. Feck. Hello, #Centrelink; how I've missed you!
mjd's status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2020 21:32:55 EDT
No #work this week, none next week, thence uncertain. Feck. Hello, #Centrelink; how I've missed you!
mjd: Damn it. Spent three days adjusting my circadian rhythm to suit a 1am shift tonight, and it's been cancelled. Looks like it's going to be a lean few weeks at #work.
mjd's status on Saturday, 28-Mar-2020 21:59:21 EDT
Damn it. Spent three days adjusting my circadian rhythm to suit a 1am shift tonight, and it's been cancelled. Looks like it's going to be a lean few weeks at #work.
mjd: Need to stay awake because shifts starting at 1am are a thing now at #work, and I have one in a couple of days, so I must recalibrate. Don't have a good track record with night work. Thankfully F-bomb Freddy at the far end of the landing and Pinky Tuscadero downstairs are engaged in a stereo war tonight. It's Total Eclipse of the Heart versus some generic heavy metal at the m https://microblog.mjd.id.au/notice/87128
mjd's status on Thursday, 26-Mar-2020 06:51:46 EDT
Need to stay awake because shifts starting at 1am are a thing now at #work, and I have one in a couple of days, so I must recalibrate. Don't have a good track record with night work. Thankfully F-bomb Freddy at the far end of the landing and Pinky Tuscadero downstairs are engaged in a stereo war tonight. It's Total Eclipse of the Heart versus some generic heavy metal at the m…
mjd: Another long day at #work, which is starting to resemble a Soviet supermarket. We wear ill-fitting red shirts and have many fine consumer goods, just not today the ones you need. Panic buying has snowballed from idiot #covid-19 doomsday preppers to people panicked by the idiots, to people panicked by the people panicked by… And so on, but for how long? https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/34631
mjd's status on Monday, 16-Mar-2020 07:31:57 EDT
Another long day at #work, which is starting to resemble a Soviet supermarket. We wear ill-fitting red shirts and have many fine consumer goods, just not today the ones you need. Panic buying has snowballed from idiot #covid-19 doomsday preppers to people panicked by the idiots, to people panicked by the people panicked by… And so on, but for how long? https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/34631
mjd: F-bomb Freddy is excelling himself today. I had a pre-dawn start at #work today, got home before lunchtime, and he was already blaring away some choice 70s acoustic folk-rock which has continued unabated for about eight hours so far (who knew there was so much of it?). I adjourned to the pub for a while, but I have neither the money nor the stamina to keep that up. At my wits https://microblog.mjd.id.au/notice/86868
mjd's status on Thursday, 12-Mar-2020 03:35:20 EDT
F-bomb Freddy is excelling himself today. I had a pre-dawn start at #work today, got home before lunchtime, and he was already blaring away some choice 70s acoustic folk-rock which has continued unabated for about eight hours so far (who knew there was so much of it?). I adjourned to the pub for a while, but I have neither the money nor the stamina to keep that up. At my wits…
mjd: And today's unexpected fit of #work brings me nearly, but not quite, up to a 40-hour week. Thank you, #coronavirus doomsday preppers, for all your deranged bulk purchases of loo paper, tissues, tinned fruit, pasta, anything with the word "antibacterial" - or indeed the prefix "anti" - on the packaging, flour, mosquito repellent, etc. As the saying goes, you have made a happy https://microblog.mjd.id.au/notice/86800
mjd's status on Sunday, 08-Mar-2020 06:02:27 EDT
And today's unexpected fit of #work brings me nearly, but not quite, up to a 40-hour week. Thank you, #coronavirus doomsday preppers, for all your deranged bulk purchases of loo paper, tissues, tinned fruit, pasta, anything with the word "antibacterial" - or indeed the prefix "anti" - on the packaging, flour, mosquito repellent, etc. As the saying goes, you have made a happy …
mjd: Second ten-hour day of the week at #work. Good for my bank balance. Bad for my body.
mjd's status on Saturday, 07-Mar-2020 02:35:43 EST
Second ten-hour day of the week at #work. Good for my bank balance. Bad for my body.
mjd: Nearly out of toilet paper, tissues, and antibacterial liquid soap at #work this afternoon. #WTF are people doing? Building toilet paper forts and filling super soakers with soapy water? https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/34511
mjd's status on Wednesday, 04-Mar-2020 05:38:13 EST
Nearly out of toilet paper, tissues, and antibacterial liquid soap at #work this afternoon. #WTF are people doing? Building toilet paper forts and filling super soakers with soapy water? https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/34511
mjd: @tregeagle They are all unexpected shifts. Except for the expected ones, which get cancelled at the last minute. Unless you expect that they will. #work
mjd's status on Tuesday, 03-Mar-2020 06:03:33 EST
@tregeagle They are all unexpected shifts. Except for the expected ones, which get cancelled at the last minute. Unless you expect that they will. #work
mjd: Oh, dear. Ten hours at #work today. Shattered. Better than having the same hours spread over three days, though.
mjd's status on Monday, 02-Mar-2020 02:19:14 EST
Oh, dear. Ten hours at #work today. Shattered. Better than having the same hours spread over three days, though.
mjd: @tregeagle I'm not sure. Maybe the guy I'm regularly mistaken for at #work has really lifted his game, so I'm getting called in more often. Best not to question it.
mjd's status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2020 04:39:17 EST
@tregeagle I'm not sure. Maybe the guy I'm regularly mistaken for at #work has really lifted his game, so I'm getting called in more often. Best not to question it.
mjd: Seven hours yesterday, nine today at weekend rates. My body's borked, and I've still to get up for a 7am start tomorrow, but that's my holiday paid for. #work
mjd's status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2020 02:02:34 EST
Seven hours yesterday, nine today at weekend rates. My body's borked, and I've still to get up for a 7am start tomorrow, but that's my holiday paid for. #work
mjd: Stepped out of the mall after #work this afternoon to see this. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/attachment/34076
mjd's status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2020 23:30:03 EST
Stepped out of the mall after #work this afternoon to see this. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/attachment/34076
mjd: Feck I feel good today. Walking to #work, listening to Accelerate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerate_(R.E.M._album)) I felt better than I have done in twenty years.
mjd's status on Monday, 03-Feb-2020 03:27:30 EST
Feck I feel good today. Walking to #work, listening to Accelerate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerate_(R.E.M._album)) I felt better than I have done in twenty years.
mjd: Saw our old chum #TW at #work this afternoon. He looked quite sprightly, and seemed pretty cognitively sharp (well, no worse than me; it's all relative). That makes two old friends I've bumped into at work in recent weeks who aren't dead yet. Feeling pretty happy about that.
mjd's status on Monday, 03-Feb-2020 02:40:21 EST
Saw our old chum #TW at #work this afternoon. He looked quite sprightly, and seemed pretty cognitively sharp (well, no worse than me; it's all relative). That makes two old friends I've bumped into at work in recent weeks who aren't dead yet. Feeling pretty happy about that.
mjd: Hoping a cup-a-soup with a few generous dashes of tabasco, accompanied by a thick wodge of bread slathered in garlic butter, will get me into #work this afternoon.
mjd's status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2019 16:46:01 EST
Hoping a cup-a-soup with a few generous dashes of tabasco, accompanied by a thick wodge of bread slathered in garlic butter, will get me into #work this afternoon.
mjd: #DoNotLike #SMS reminders of medical appointments that arrive at exactly the time of day I'm most likely to be called in to #work. Oh, my nerves. There I was, thinking I'd have to cancel the whole afternoon's lack of plans, and it was a false alarm.
mjd's status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2019 20:17:01 EST
#DoNotLike #SMS reminders of medical appointments that arrive at exactly the time of day I'm most likely to be called in to #work. Oh, my nerves. There I was, thinking I'd have to cancel the whole afternoon's lack of plans, and it was a false alarm.
mjd: Had to go into #work to tell the chap assembling the roster that I couldn't do Wednesday next week (and, tacitly, that I exist; nice but unexpected holiday I had last week). The smoke was all through the shopping mall. Could hardly see from one end to t'other. Lady in the off-licence said goodbye with "stay safe". Safe? I'm about to drink some of this cheap poisonous muck. Safety is a matter of degree. [*Cough*]
mjd's status on Monday, 11-Nov-2019 20:21:58 EST
Had to go into #work to tell the chap assembling the roster that I couldn't do Wednesday next week (and, tacitly, that I exist; nice but unexpected holiday I had last week). The smoke was all through the shopping mall. Could hardly see from one end to t'other. Lady in the off-licence said goodbye with "stay safe". Safe? I'm about to drink some of this cheap poisonous muck. Safety is a matter of degree. [*Cough*]
mjd: Doing the washing and cooking dinner at 11pm because #work. Not happy. Yes I made half the average week's income today but, unless I calm down, the dummy spit tomorrow might cause some unpleasantness. Plus, Everything Hurtz. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls3OYPcUL1w
mjd's status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2019 08:21:16 EDT
Doing the washing and cooking dinner at 11pm because #work. Not happy. Yes I made half the average week's income today but, unless I calm down, the dummy spit tomorrow might cause some unpleasantness. Plus, Everything Hurtz. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls3OYPcUL1w
mjd: Not rostered on at #work for four days in a row. On the one hand, getting called in would be good for my bank balance, but on the other hand, the hand I slammed in between two trolleys yesterday, a long rest would be nice. Ow, that smarts.
mjd's status on Friday, 18-Oct-2019 19:03:55 EDT
Not rostered on at #work for four days in a row. On the one hand, getting called in would be good for my bank balance, but on the other hand, the hand I slammed in between two trolleys yesterday, a long rest would be nice. Ow, that smarts.
mjd: Absolutely shattered. Day off #work tomorrow. Think I might give my todo list the day off as well, and just snooze.
mjd's status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2019 06:06:22 EDT
Absolutely shattered. Day off #work tomorrow. Think I might give my todo list the day off as well, and just snooze.
mjd: Woo-hoo! Daylight saving starts in a week. #Kitty will wake me an hour later for breakfast! I get to walk home from #work in daylight! https://www.nsw.gov.au/about-new-south-wales/daylight-savings/
mjd's status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2019 20:37:42 EDT
Woo-hoo! Daylight saving starts in a week. #Kitty will wake me an hour later for breakfast! I get to walk home from #work in daylight! https://www.nsw.gov.au/about-new-south-wales/daylight-savings/
mjd: I've been dying for a full day off #work for ages. Two o'clock in the afternoon, and I'm bored now.
mjd's status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2019 00:45:41 EDT
I've been dying for a full day off #work for ages. Two o'clock in the afternoon, and I'm bored now.
mjd: 8 hours at #work today. Shattered. Really must get a pedometer app or something to measure the number of steps I take per hour. Can't begin to imagine a way to measure the number of kilograms I lift/push.
mjd's status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2019 07:51:15 EDT
8 hours at #work today. Shattered. Really must get a pedometer app or something to measure the number of steps I take per hour. Can't begin to imagine a way to measure the number of kilograms I lift/push.
mjd: Well, that was painful. After playing whack-a-mole with all the redundant processes, executables, /etc/cron* entries, etc., a bash script to stomp on the lot and immediately reboot for good measure saw off the script kiddies in time for #work today.
mjd's status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 03:16:44 EDT
Well, that was painful. After playing whack-a-mole with all the redundant processes, executables, /etc/cron* entries, etc., a bash script to stomp on the lot and immediately reboot for good measure saw off the script kiddies in time for #work today.
mjd: Been hors de combat for much of the week due to the minor ailments I gather round to shield me from any major ones, but just had six hours of lovely Sunday pay rate to make up for it. Walking home after dark I had an enormous bat (flying fox) wheeling round me, with a wingspan which seemed comparable to that of a pelican. They're chattering away all round my flat right now. T https://microblog.mjd.id.au/notice/77946
mjd's status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2019 06:50:25 EDT
Been hors de combat for much of the week due to the minor ailments I gather round to shield me from any major ones, but just had six hours of lovely Sunday pay rate to make up for it. Walking home after dark I had an enormous bat (flying fox) wheeling round me, with a wingspan which seemed comparable to that of a pelican. They're chattering away all round my flat right now. T…
mjd: Unexpected bills on Monday rattled me. Realised that if Kitty needs a vet before #work picks up in the spring, I'll be borked. Applied for poor man's insurance, aka credit card, for the first time in my life. Will. Not. Use.
mjd's status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2019 21:27:12 EDT
Unexpected bills on Monday rattled me. Realised that if Kitty needs a vet before #work picks up in the spring, I'll be borked. Applied for poor man's insurance, aka credit card, for the first time in my life. Will. Not. Use.
mjd: I hate being the last person to leave at #work, knowing that everything has to be just so for the person who is the first to arrive at 5:30am and all the people who depend on them. It's "Oh my god, I left the oven on!" anxiety times ten.
mjd's status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2019 08:04:59 EDT
I hate being the last person to leave at #work, knowing that everything has to be just so for the person who is the first to arrive at 5:30am and all the people who depend on them. It's "Oh my god, I left the oven on!" anxiety times ten.
mjd: Small pay packet from last week, and another shift canceled today. The lean winter months, when the nation's appetite for corn chips and caffeinated sugar drinks temporarily abates. #work
mjd's status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2019 22:50:01 EDT
Small pay packet from last week, and another shift canceled today. The lean winter months, when the nation's appetite for corn chips and caffeinated sugar drinks temporarily abates. #work
mjd: Had four days straight off from #work, which was lovely, but brutal on the bank balance. Quiet time of year, so full-timers from across the shop are being seconded to my department in order to make up their hours, displacing casuals like yours truly.
mjd's status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 01:03:44 EDT
Had four days straight off from #work, which was lovely, but brutal on the bank balance. Quiet time of year, so full-timers from across the shop are being seconded to my department in order to make up their hours, displacing casuals like yours truly.
mjd: Moved furniture across #Sawtell and up a dizzying flight of stairs. Then four hours #work. Still have to make a bed with an aching back, and Kitty currently hiding among the pile of bedclothes on it. But we have a '~/'. Hard to believe, actually.
mjd's status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2019 05:37:21 EDT
Moved furniture across #Sawtell and up a dizzying flight of stairs. Then four hours #work. Still have to make a bed with an aching back, and Kitty currently hiding among the pile of bedclothes on it. But we have a '~/'. Hard to believe, actually.
mjd: Had a s**t morning. Was thinking that the last thing I want to do is to go into #work this afternoon. But I did, and by 10 minutes in I was feeling fine. There's nothing quite so rejuvenating as feeling useful, in even the most trivial way.
mjd's status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2019 05:15:29 EDT
Had a s**t morning. Was thinking that the last thing I want to do is to go into #work this afternoon. But I did, and by 10 minutes in I was feeling fine. There's nothing quite so rejuvenating as feeling useful, in even the most trivial way.
rozzin: rozzin favorited something by mjd: I wonder if anybody my age actually feels that they are half as far away from retirement as they are from their first day of #work. I certainly don't.
rozzin's status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2019 10:18:36 EDT
rozzin favorited something by mjd: I wonder if anybody my age actually feels that they are half as far away from retirement as they are from their first day of #work. I certainly don't.
mjd: I wonder if anybody my age actually feels that they are half as far away from retirement as they are from their first day of #work. I certainly don't.
mjd's status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2019 06:07:32 EDT
I wonder if anybody my age actually feels that they are half as far away from retirement as they are from their first day of #work. I certainly don't.
mjd: 6am starts at #work the next two days. Worse, I'm nominally in charge. Nothing good ever comes of letting it be known that you're reasonably competent on a good day.
mjd's status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2019 03:22:17 EDT
6am starts at #work the next two days. Worse, I'm nominally in charge. Nothing good ever comes of letting it be known that you're reasonably competent on a good day.
mjd: The #work musak is doing me in, though. Time for a hefty dose of the mighty #Fall to scrub my ears clean. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpWVk3h2SA8
mjd's status on Tuesday, 07-May-2019 06:08:23 EDT
The #work musak is doing me in, though. Time for a hefty dose of the mighty #Fall to scrub my ears clean. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpWVk3h2SA8