Just having issues when on my phone. I can log in and post, ut every post says it a duplicate of one I posted 5 min ago (even if it's my first post). Does actually end up posting it but just frustrating.
Ive just been busy today, heavy night lastnight and then busy day with family etc Anyhow im off to bed now. Night Redmen X
Good morning ALL: Notable birthday today: Jerry Lee Lewis 1970 - Emily Lloyd, London England, actress (Wish You Were Here, In Country 1975 - Albert Celades, Spanish football player 1980 - Patrick Agyemang, English footballer History today: 1979 John Paul II becomes the first pope ever to visit Ireland. 1992 Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello impeached for corruptions; he was the youngest president in the nation's history, taking office at age 40 in 1990. 2008 Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 777.68 points in the wake of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual bankruptcies, the largest single-day point loss in Wall Street history. 2009 An 8.1 earthquake causes a tidal wave that claims 189 lives in Samoa, American Samoa, and Tonga
I'm going to be on here quite a bit less. The MD has moved the office around and I'm sitting on the nearest desk to him, but with my back to him I won't be able to get on whilst he's at his desk, so very intermittent. Good Cheese update just about to be posted
Morning Dribs, morning all: Events: 1789 – The 1st United States Congress adjourns. 1829 – The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded. 1885 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England. 2004 – The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth. Birthdays: 1511 – Michael Servetus, Spanish physician, cartographer, and theologian (d. 1553, burned at the stake for 'Heresy') 1547 – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1616), wrote Don Quixote. 1571 – Caravaggio, Italian painter (d. 1610) 1725 – Robert Clive, English general and politician (d. 1774), known as 'Clive of India'. 1758 – Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, English admiral (d. 1805) 1898 – Trofim Lysenko, Ukrainian-Russian biologist and agronomist (d. 1976) - his adherence to Lamarckism over Darwinian evolution set back soviet biology and agriculture decades. 1899 – László BÃró, Hungarian-Argentinian inventor, invented the ballpoint pen (d. 1985) 1899 – Billy Butlin, South African-English businessman, founded Butlins (d. 1980) 1901 – Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954), one of the 'fathers of the atomic bomb' who won the Nobel Prize for his work on induced radioactivity and the discovery of transuranic elements. 1931 – James Cronin, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, who won the Prize for an experiment (with Val Fitch) in 1964 illustrating CP violation. 1956 – Sebastian Coe, English sprinter and politician 1967 – Brett Anderson, English singer-songwriter (Suede and The Tears) 1968 – Matt & Luke Goss, English singer-songwriters (Bros), and actors 1969 – Erika Eleniak, American model and actress 1969 – Sabrina, Zimbabwean-Greek singer 1971 – Mackenzie Crook, English actor and screenwriter 1972 – Robert Webb, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter ****Also, belated Happy Birthday to our own Luis Alberto, who turned 22 yesterday.**** R.I.P. Bill Shankly, Legendary manager of the glorious Reds! (b. 1913, d. 29 September 1981)
Yeah, but I'm operating in the real world, unless of course you're the boss and are constantly looking at your own screen
Everyone was in mourning because I was off on holiday (definitely holiday not vacation)! What's worse is having your own office... too much temptation to visit this place. When I was in a cube farm I was on less.