Nothing But Blue Skies
Friday, April 16th, 2010 07:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tourmalineDay 106 Two pics today, because I can't choose between them. Both of the same thing.
Blue skies overhead at work, with no contrail clouds. We're under the flight path for Birmingham International Airport, so while there are no planes flying I thought I'd better record the phenomenon for posterity.
Today was good at work. Good work-wise, in that I finished a draft of a page for our online manual (it was my idea to write it), and our Chief Exec has released the report that wins me (and a couple of others) £50 in our staff suggestions scheme - I suggested we should use Twitter - which we do now, but not much. I've written some stuff about how we could be using it more, and I have another report to write on the topic. It was good food-wise, the little shop at the end of the road has taken to calling at all the places on the business park to sell its lunches direct, I bought a Piri Piri Chicken salad sandwich, it was delish and filling, will be shopping with them again definitely. Some of the others partook of the greasy spoon run, D had an especially good (or bad) food day cos he had a bacon sandwich for lunch and an ice cream in the afternoon. Now that it's no longer winter, the ice cream van tours at around 3pm. S told us the story of her daughter's then-boyfriend's discovery of 99s, he's from Spain and he came back to their house full of rapture for this magnificent new ice cream delicacy he'd encountered that day and OMG they're amazing have you heard of them? S had to explain how commonplace they are, and how every British child has a photograph of them covered in melted ice cream from when they were too small to eat a 99 quickly enough.
Since coming home, I've been for a power walk - half an hour, not very powery but up & down hills cos that's my local topography. And my new pedometer is lying, I walked further than 390 metres and burned more than 19 calories I'm sure. And there's a new QI (albeit a compilation) on tonight - which would be great if I hadn't burned the previous one to a disc cos I thought it was the final episode. I wanted them to be on the same disc but I can't do that now, it won't copy back onto the hard drive. Boo.
Blue skies overhead at work, with no contrail clouds. We're under the flight path for Birmingham International Airport, so while there are no planes flying I thought I'd better record the phenomenon for posterity.
Today was good at work. Good work-wise, in that I finished a draft of a page for our online manual (it was my idea to write it), and our Chief Exec has released the report that wins me (and a couple of others) £50 in our staff suggestions scheme - I suggested we should use Twitter - which we do now, but not much. I've written some stuff about how we could be using it more, and I have another report to write on the topic. It was good food-wise, the little shop at the end of the road has taken to calling at all the places on the business park to sell its lunches direct, I bought a Piri Piri Chicken salad sandwich, it was delish and filling, will be shopping with them again definitely. Some of the others partook of the greasy spoon run, D had an especially good (or bad) food day cos he had a bacon sandwich for lunch and an ice cream in the afternoon. Now that it's no longer winter, the ice cream van tours at around 3pm. S told us the story of her daughter's then-boyfriend's discovery of 99s, he's from Spain and he came back to their house full of rapture for this magnificent new ice cream delicacy he'd encountered that day and OMG they're amazing have you heard of them? S had to explain how commonplace they are, and how every British child has a photograph of them covered in melted ice cream from when they were too small to eat a 99 quickly enough.
Since coming home, I've been for a power walk - half an hour, not very powery but up & down hills cos that's my local topography. And my new pedometer is lying, I walked further than 390 metres and burned more than 19 calories I'm sure. And there's a new QI (albeit a compilation) on tonight - which would be great if I hadn't burned the previous one to a disc cos I thought it was the final episode. I wanted them to be on the same disc but I can't do that now, it won't copy back onto the hard drive. Boo.
