MFW Diary - Take 1!

in_need_of_direction

Omg, you've just reminded me off the time I only applied fake tan to just above the skirt hemline. I then went face down in a hotel reception first thing in the morning when loads of people were checking out. I didn't even feel pain just the embarrassment, not of the fall but of everyone knowing where the fake tan ended.

Calfuray

edinburgher wrote: »

I had a friend who worked in resource planning for a big IT company, worked at home *a lot*. He claims he only ever threw on a casual shirt for video conferences and kept his PJ bottoms on :rotfl:

I can imagine it!

in_need_of_direction wrote: »

Omg, you've just reminded me off the time I only applied fake tan to just above the skirt hemline. I then went face down in a hotel reception first thing in the morning when loads of people were checking out. I didn't even feel pain just the embarrassment, not of the fall but of everyone knowing where the fake tan ended.

That's brilliant! At least you hadn't done that with shaving, could have been worse

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Today has been one of those days. Woke up with stomach pain so severe I felt dizzy and sick, waited 45 minutes, was still terrible so phoned NH$ 24, who told me to take painkillers and it was nothing :cool: Managed to get back to sleep, woke up and it's nearly all gone. Very strange.

Meant I slept through my shoe delivery

Made porridge and it tasted weird, the microwave was still on defrost from last night.

One of those days! :rotfl:

Calfuray

I clearly should have stopped while I was ahead today.

Have spent the past few hours wrangling with project software and Excel. I don't know if it's bad design, poor usability, human error (!!!) or just let's-break-everything-today-because-as-a-computing-scientist-why-on-earth-would-the-software-work-for-you-lol but :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

And *breathe*

I can't even explain.

I wanted to open multiple workbooks as sheets in one workbook. Couldn't find out how to do it. Opened a workbook with multiple sheets, and painstakingly copied and pasted each workbook into each sheet. Saved. Opened, BLANK. :mad:

Repeat process. This time, instead of copy and pasting, you find you can drag a sheet from one workbook into another, saving time. But only from the right to left. It doesn't work left to right. Why would it? That would just be silly. Save. Smile. Realise that you and the person that have been working together have used conflicting lettering systems, to the point where your R is their D and your D is their R, which means EVERY SINGLE RESULT IS WRONG.

Cry a little inside, redo ALL your experiments, resave them into individual CSV files because the export to CSV file option isn't working and.... just....

I won't even bore you with the rest. Safe to say I've been working on this since eight o'clock.

Sorry for ranting, there is nothing that gets my goat more than bad software design. There is just no need. I won't talk anymore or I'll just rant again.

Off to watch Dexter murder people, that'll make me feel better :rotfl::rotfl:

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Morning Cal, here's hoping you have time for a walk in the fresh air, forget SW and breathe.

You made me laugh reading your post but it must have been frustrating.

Tilly x

Calfuray

Glad you liked it Tilly, I was aiming to make other people laugh at my ridiculousness! :rotfl:

Friends at uni always joke I should be a tester for computer software, if there is anything that can go wrong with me and software, it will. To the point where I had a lecturer sitting with me for about an hour last semester, trying to fix my problem, to discover I had managed to corrupt the underlying code of the software program. How?!?

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Feeling contemplative today.

I read nearly every single diary on this board, at least when it's on the front two pages. Anytime somebody posts about a loss I really want to say something, but I don't know what to say. Feel like a walking foot-in-mouth disease so I say nothing. New member who recently joined, her thread title was the hymn I sang at my mother's funeral when I was 17. Feels like a gut punch every time I see that thread.

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Off to A!di today, need to plan what I can bring to uni for lunches each day. Back on Monday :eek:

Shoes arrived and they are beautiful :smileyhea

gallygirl

Calfuray wrote: »

Friends at uni always joke I should be a tester for computer software, if there is anything that can go wrong with me and software, it will. To the point where I had a lecturer sitting with me for about an hour last semester, trying to fix my problem, to discover I had managed to corrupt the underlying code of the software program. How?!?

I am very good at breaking hardware. I can see a business opportunity here . Now, we need someone who breaks household appliances and someone who breaks cars :T.

Calfuray

gallygirl wrote: »

I am very good at breaking hardware. I can see a business opportunity here . Now, we need someone who breaks household appliances and someone who breaks cars :T.

Interesting business opportunity

I'll give you a call if my interview tomorrow doesn't work out

Doing last minute frantic prep today, don't really know what I should be concentrating on. Any tips much appreciated

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Alchemilla

Hugs Cal, thats hard.

gallygirl

Good luck for tomorrow. I hope you go into it easier knowing you have a fail safe business opportunity to fall back on :beer:.

edinburgher

Cal, all the very best for tomorrow, relax and be yourself