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Second Christmas Meal

Tonight is my second Christmas meal, the first was last night which was the Grocery meal, tonight is the Warehouse/GM meal.

The meal last night was alright, they give out big portions of meat! And then I piled on the vegetables! I only just managed to finish it!
Before that there was a starter, I chose the soup, and for after I had the Christmas pudding.

The soup was alright, vegetable I think! But the Christmas pudding was only a small square on a big plate, and the piece I had was rock hard, I couldn’t even cut it with a knife!

Tonight I’m having the same, but I chose a different pudding, apple pie with custard!

I’ve done a bit of Christmas shopping, I managed to get something for everyone! But I’ve not entirely finished yet!

I’ve now got 15 minutes to get ready for the Christmas meal!

Till next time,
Merry Christmas

Its December Already!

Its been two weeks since my last post, so whats been happening?

For a start I managed to get search working on Linux Links, so thats all well and good

I have also added a couple of other features to the site.

The first feature is being able to browse by hostname, unless two or more pages in the database come from the same host then there is no way to access it, and that’s deliberate!

The second feature is a status checker, which basically checks if the page can be accessed every day, and the results of that are displayed on the url page.

Its Sunday now, I started this post on Saturday but had to go out before finishing this post!

Now that it is December I’m working more hours at work. I am now working six days a week and have Mondays off.
That means that I’ve got Christmas eve and New Years eve off, so that’s a good thing!

It’s December which means that obviously I haven’t even started Christmas shopping yet!
And like usual I don’t have the foggiest what to get anyone!

Staying with the Christmas theme, one good point to working out in the warehouse is that I don’t get to listen to the endless Christmas songs repeated countless number of times throughout the day!
Also, I’ve got 2 Christmas meals to go to this year, the first on the eighth is the Grocery Christmas meal, and then on the ninth is the Warehouse and GM meal, at the same place!

Thats it for this week!
See you next time!

The past week

Friday was Children in Need, and the big waxing took place in ASDA.
Unfortunately I missed Scott getting his legs waxed, but I have been told he chickened out and only had one leg waxed!

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I had an email from Schmap saying that one of my photos had been nominated to be included in the forth edition of their Bristol guide.
I got an email from them Saturday saying that my photo was included.
You can view it here.

Now for more news about Linux Links, I was working all day Saturday to try and get search working, but it just wasn’t going right!

I was copying code from phpBB, and from a couple of tutorials from the Internet, I was even using the MySQL search functions, but none of them produced the results I was after.

I now feel sorry for the pigeons working at google!

Search is still not working, but I have a new plan to try, it involves splitting the search string, searching for each word separately!
I’ll keep you posted on how it goes!

Till next time
See you!

The night after the night before!

This is the first night/day after the last day of working nights

We finished working at 6am, and went to bed as soon as I got home. Woke up about 2pm, and I was feeling tired all day.
I was also feeling tired all evening, but for the past hour or two I’ve felt wide awake!

I’ve done a little bit of work on my website and blog, and have added a few touches to my Linux site, I’m now going to try and get some sleep tonight!

I’ll post again sometime this weekend!
Till then

Good night!

Getting ready for nights!

From Sunday I will be working from 9pm to 9am for the next four days. This is to help with the refit that is going on at the moment.

It is 5 o’clock in the morning and I’ve been up for and hour now! I’m going to be going back to sleep, if thats possible, at 4pm and then waking up again at 10pm so that I can then hopefully stay awake all night!

I will be taking this free time as a chance to update my website as I have a list of tweaks and fixes to do.
One of them is a subscription to this blog so that casual visitors and readers can receive emails when I finally write a new post!

I have already added the plugin, subscribe2, to wordpress, and now I’m just testing it out with this post!

I’ll post again tomorrow night.
Until then, stay awake!

Room 101!

Well, Ok, not room 101, more like post 101! Lol!
I cant believe that its been more than a month since my last post, doesn’t time fly!?!

Since my last post there has been a few things happen, some I had thought about posting about, but I just haven’t been able to get the time!

The nights are now drawing in, and the past few days has been sunny, unlike May and June!

I am now on a three week rolling rota at work, I am now working one in every three weekends.
Staying with work, one of the warehouse colleagues is cutting back his hours, and I’m taking over his Tuesdays, and will be bringing in deliveries!

Me and my girlfriend are still together, and on Sunday we go off on holiday to Jersey for a week. We will be camping. Its my first holiday on my own, and my girlfriends first out of the country!

One of my other less known websites http://linux.roganty.co.uk/ is being worked on. And I have nearly completed it. I just need to tidy it up, and make it more presentable

The spam count has reached 7,800. That’s 2,800 in just over a month! Thank you Akismet!

I think that’s it, for this post!
And hopefully not for another month!

I’ve just washed my arms!

Thats it, I’m back!
I have been on and off overtime for the past month or two, but for that last two weeks, or at least since the 10th of April, I have been working every day!
Yes, I was even working on Easter Sunday!
But today was the last day, and I worked 11 and a half hours! I started at 8am and finished at 7:30pm

The reason, Stock take!

Yes, today was the last day, today we had to count the entire ambient warehouse, apart from the bits and pieces on the racking that was counted during that past couple of days.
That included all of the edible and non-ed cages, crisps, toilet rolls, drinks cages, euros, and a couple pallets of promo that came in delivery today!
Grocery had almost completly finished by about 6pm, that included health and beauty, and BWS, but not frozen, but it was close to completion!
And Grocery was the only department to finish first, just like a couple of years back when stock take was canceled due to the system being too slow, Grocery, or Ambient, was the only department to finish.

As I was dragging my tired ass out of the place the stock take team were preparing.

All nights have to do is work the new stock on delivery, then at 6am the stock takers can then start counting.

On Stock take Mondays nothing is worked, no updates to the system can be done, only tills are allowed to access the system!
We do not get the system back until about 6pm on Monday!

I was in the warehouse all day counting, and I’ve been home since about 8pm, but I’ve only just noticed that my forearms were filthy!

Windy!!

Boy was it windy today!

Unfortunately in work one of the main doors that the lorries are unloaded through was broken, it was broken by the wind some time last week.
This meant that the wind was coming through the warehouse through the grocery corridor and onto the shop floor.

In the corridor we have a rubbish cage (also know as: comp; roll-cage) where we put the cardboard from the shop floor before putting it into the compactor.
The wind was so strong that it was pushing against the cardboard in the cage and it was rolling onto the shop floor.

Later on in the evening the other main door was closed, but it got stuck down, the motor that winds it up burnt out or something like that!
I came back down after my break and the door was open, it had been fixed!
Usually it takes one to two days for someone to come out to fix the doors, but today someone came out and had fixed it within half an hour!

Well thats about it!
Until next time
Bye

Twelve Days of Christmas Driving for ASDA

As promised yesterday, here is the twelve days of Christmas driving for ASDA as written by one of the home shopping colleagues

On the first day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
A van to replace AZP

On the second day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP

On the third day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP

On the fourth day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP

On the fifth day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Five orders on hold,
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP

On the sixth day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Six geese with feathers,
Five orders on hold,
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP

On the seventh day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Seven totes of Carling,
Six geese with feathers,
Five orders on hold,
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP

On the eighth day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Eight flats to walk to,
Seven totes of Carling,
Six geese with feathers,
Five orders on hold,
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP

On the ninth day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Nine totes a missing,
Eight flats to walk to,
Seven totes of Carling,
Six geese with feathers,
Five orders on hold,
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP

On the tenth day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Ten straps a swaying,
Nine totes a missing,
Eight flats to walk to,
Seven totes of Carling,
Six geese with feathers,
Five orders on hold,
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP

On the eleventh day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Eleven customers moaning,
Ten straps a swaying,
Nine totes a missing,
Eight flats to walk to,
Seven totes of Carling,
Six geese with feathers,
Five orders on hold,
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP

On the twelfth day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Twelve days to recover,
Eleven customers moaning,
Ten straps a swaying,
Nine totes a missing,
Eight flats to walk to,
Seven totes of Carling,
Six geese with feathers,
Five orders on hold,
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP

Christmas Monday!

I’ve just got to finish of my sister, and get something for my dad and that’s it.
The only thing that would be left to do is wrap the presents!

What have I been doing since the last post?
Working mainly!

I had Sunday off, but that was because it was granddads 86th birthday on Saturday, and me, dad, and sister, and granddad (obviously) and auntie Sue went to the White Horse on the A38 just past Thornbury for a meal.
On Sunday morning me and dad went around the shops. Which was when I finished mums presents.

On Monday I worked. Luckily it was only in the morning, so I could still go out in the evening with my girlfriend.

For the next three of four days, until Friday, or Saturday, I will be working close to 12 hours a day!
Tomorrow (Wednesday) I’ll be doing a bit of Christmas shopping in the morning, so I wont be working 12 hours, but I will be working longer than my usual eight hours!

In the home shopping office someone has written out the twelve days of Christmas song, but changed it slightly!
Each verse starts with: On the n’th day of Christmas ASDA House sent to me….

I’ll try to get a copy of it and post it soon.
As for my Christmas theme…I wont be able to do the twelve days of Christmas header image after all, mainly due to the fact that I haven’t been able to have any time to make a start on them.
If I can manage to do at least the first three or four, then I will be able to make them up a couple of days in advance. But I cannot see myself being able to find the time to do even one!

As for the rest of the Christmas theme, I will put up the additional images, but not the banner, as I haven’t complete it yet.

I wonder what a couple of my New Year Resolutions will be….

Merry Christmas every one