Thankfully in the up and down that is my strange excuse for a life, there are some ups to counteract the downs caused by D.V. (don’t ask), one up is being persuaded (and by persuaded i mean “do you want to go?”, “hell yess!”) to go to the grand international cos play ball,

now for those who have not had the happy introduction into cosplay its just fancy dress that has 2 basic themes, Japanese animation, and odd fashion such as Gothic Lolita,as complete anime freaks, the love of my live and i went as characters from said cartoons, much as i would like to show you pictures of my lady who went as Yuko from XXXHolic i like my heart in my chest and not ripped out and pulsing in someone else’s palm as a warning to those who post pictures of their girlfriends without permission., so you’ll just have to make do with me.

Heres the character i went as he’s called Gaara

and heres my version of him (but with a double chin apparently)

The hardest part was the gourd he wears on his back, it took over 2 weeks of nightly work, and i have to say I’m as smug with it as a good bit of ajax

An amazing time was had by all, one of the advantage of these kind of themed nights, is that ice breaking is dead easy, as you can always ask about/admire someone’s costume and start any conversation there which is normally much harder to do in a ordinary night club. and the fact the dress code is so strict means the number of assholes/trouble starter in the club are very very small.

Ah, i do love a old fashioned Xmas, this year i sent my children’s presents to my solicitor to pass to my children’s solicitor, so that they can formally be informed that their father is thinking about them during the season of good will, as previous years presents have all ‘not arrived’, a fact that i was unaware off until recently….i can just imagine Bing Crosby singing about it with his friends round the open fire.

I say Mr Mooney as he is the highest level admin i know, and im hoping he can put in a good word with the gods of notes admins for me before i die.

my crime (or rather sin), is that i have taken to gluing adminP requests together by hand, when the proper process gets on my nerves, the latest one (in this case a change password on a domino directory request, which i wanted to generate immediately but i had already send no to the password change prompt for that day), consisted of me copying out a completed adminP request from the live domain and then over writing fields from a local one i generated on my dev domain, leaving only the security fields in place (i love scanez), then pasting it back into the live domain admin4.nsf

I am prepared to take my punishment(hangs head in shame)

I cant decide if THIS shows that the English can keep a secret, don’t care what’s going on around them, or are completely dateless

But its fun.

One of my major client’s developers has been off ill the last couple of days but who despite vomiting, the shits and a very bad back is managing to do a hell of a lot of work, when enquiries were made as to his ability to do so, his response was:

“That’s because I’m channelling the spirit of Xmas past, who, as it turns out, is quite a good programmer”

I tell you, with this office you just cant make it up!