heywood on 3/10/2009 at 02:05

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Shitty week. Got progressively sick. And I had to cancel a weekend motorcycle trip because of weather and a sudden battery failure. I didn't go out tonight, wanted to recover a bit and play The Nameless Mod, which I just started. But I came home to find the OS drive on my desktop went tits up today, so I can't even do that.

But... this thread inspired me to go buy a bottle of scotch. So it's not all bad. Now I just gotta decide whether I'm in the mood for Laphroig or Talisker.

heywood on 3/10/2009 at 03:03

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I ended up going for something new:

http://www.redmc.net/useless/balvenie.jpg

Balvenie Doublewood. Aged in two casks: A whisky cask and a sherry cask. Smooth with a slight honey taste. Good, but I probably should have stuck with the Talisker.

Scots Taffer on 3/10/2009 at 03:28

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Balvenie Doublewood is alright :thimb:

I had a fucking hellish week as there was a huge storm cloud on the horizon in my life that thankfully blew away on Friday morning leaving me completely stress free and ready to enjoy a hot bastard of a weekend.

30 degrees and in the pool this arvo :cool:

Scots Taffer on 3/10/2009 at 04:35

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Roasting a chicken during it is though :D

thefonz on 3/10/2009 at 06:54

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Two words to strike fear into the hearts of anyone that works in the private industry:

Off.
Shoring.

Those words combined pretty much made my week hell. For example, alot of the boring process stuff goes out to India. So for example. One of the projects I work on came up to the time where we were invoicing the client so naturally we ask the team over there to produce an expense report for that project. Simple enough eh? WRONG.

Each project has its own codeword; so they send us the wrong one and include client names, deal details etc in it - which first of all aside from being not what we asked for is a huge compliance risk. Second when we finally got the correct code with the details we found a ton of expenses on it that nobody could recognise. So I was asked by one of the Directors to wade through about 1000 lines of code to sort out whose were the correct ones, get the receipts together (the client is very prickly about backups) and essentially spend two precious days at the start of the week where I devoted my full attention to this.

It finally emerged that what they had sent us was basically bullshit and the previous invoice that had been sent (note while i was on holiday) was totally wrong so now we have to grovel to the client that the previous invoice should be ignored and send them a new revised one).

Safe to say some harsh talking will be made next week by the Accounts team and I can merrily go back to doing what I usually do.

Thats just one example, there are far worse ones I cant talk about on here...

Weekend is picking up though - I have a date tonight...hello stress relief :thumb::thumb:

Note: Any Balvenie is a win. Although my JWBlue was like the God's ambrosia (Both glasses) last night.