ninehertz

1. • Ollie
   • So, I get into work a little early today and it turns out I have almost nothing to do for the day, and I have to stay here to 4pm. At best I may be able to scratch out my work for a couple of hours if I go extremely slowly and take plenty of breaks!!!
     
     Please tell me some good jokes to ease my boredom.
   • [07:58 on 05/06/08]
2. • Donny
   • If my day goes well, I will be able to work from home this afternoon. In the garden! Gorgeous day here in south london. Not a cloud in the sky.
   • [08:45 on 05/06/08]
3. • JenTheHen
   • I have been known to do some of the following during my LONG days at work (with no access to the internet 90% of the time):
     
     + attempted to remember the names of every person I've ever slept with and made a list
     
     + tried to "perform" some of my favourite songs, in my head, from start to finish. This one's harder than you'd think
     
     + made lists of all the things I have to do today (OK, boring one but it's amazing some of the things you seem to think you have to remind yourself of when given excessive quantities of time)
     
     I can't even be bothered to go on. Yes, the hours fly by when working in an art gallery.
     
     The first one was fun and pretty infectious too - I had half the female staff at work doing it, with surprising results.
   • [08:57 on 05/06/08]
4. • Ollie
   • The first one, sadly, won't take that long. The second one I may have a go at, if the phone rings or something to distract me do I have to go back to the start of the song? The third one is easy...sit here til 12 trying to look busy, 12 noon, go to the canteen and get some soup for lunch. 2.30, eat a Special K bar for something to do. 4pm, leave work, go to supermarket to pick up tea then go to Sarah's work to pick her up. 5pm, head for home, 5.45 arrive home, have tea. 6.30 wait for our drummer to pick me up, go to Exeter, play gig, come home.
     
     I'm now going to try and perform Misplaced Childhood by Marillion in my head...not that I like it, just it should be a challenge as I haven't listened to it for 20 years!!!
   • [09:04 on 05/06/08]
5. • JenTheHen
   • Yeah, if you get distracted you have to start again.
     
     Trust me, it's nigh on impossible.
     
     Your list of things to do today is not detailed enough. I've never thought about putting times in but might try that on a particularly dull day.
   • [09:09 on 05/06/08]
6. • Ollie
   • 10.30 to 12 noon - sit at my desk working through a spreadsheet (not a piece of work that really needs to be done but it at least makes it look as though I am doing something. At some point pay a visit to the toilet and go downstairs to fill my water bottle.
     12 noon - go upstairs to the canteen, buy some soup, possibly talk to some friends who work on other foors in our building
     12.30 head back to desk and continue to sit here making it look like I'm working, occasionally going on the internet, visiting the toilet and filling my water bottle.
     2.30 eat Special K bar...highlight of the afternoon
     4pm - go to car
     4.10 arrive at Morrisons to buy tea for tonight
     4.30 leave Morrisons
     4.40 arrive at Sarah's work, sit talking to Sarah and her boss for 20 minutes until sarah can leave.
     5pm get in car and leave Sarah's work
     5.15 hit the A 38
     5.45 Arrive home at Chudleigh
     5.50 Get changed
     5.55 Start tea
     6.10 Start eating tea (content as yet unknown)
     6.30 finish tea, sit and wait for drummer to arrive. On arrival load guitar gear in van and drive to Exeter
     7pm Arrive at venue, talk to promoter and Drivechain (the other band) get a drink and wait for Drivechain to finish their soundcheck then do our soundcheck...have another drink
     8pm doors open...get drink
     8.45 Go and stage and rock for 45 minutes to 3 people and a dog
     9.30 finish set and start packing up...Sarah comes to venue from ante natal class
     9.45 All packed up, have a drink and catch the start of Drivechain's set.
     10pm set off for home as Sarah will be knackered
     10.20 Arrive home, sit and watch TV for a bit (recorded My Name is Earl)
     11pm Go to bed
     
     It doesn't seem to matter how much detail there is...it ain;t that exciting.
   • [09:51 on 05/06/08]
7. • bad admiral
   • - take up smoking.
     
     - interview yourself in your head whilst sitting on the toilet
     
     - pretend to be a spy
     
     - start an argument about politics with a colleague
     
     - teach yourself the theory of a new skill such as: throwing playing cards with deadly accuracy; tantric breathing; hebrew alphabet; 8 ways to kill a man barehanded; corracal building; navigating by the stars; rollerskating backwards, etc.
     
     - see how high you can fire your wee without messing stuff up.
     
     - plait a lock of hair.
     
     - slyly remember some porn you've watched
     
     - pretend you desk is a huge piano and that you are bruce hornsby. your co-workers are the range. now youtube that song about nothing changing and copy it and "fire" members of "the range" for "not vibing enough".
     
     - spreadsheet on excel of every band you've been in and all the people you've played with, including dates and reasons for leaving. bands that never gigged don't count unless they've made a recording. mine takes about 4 hours and it turns out i've been in about 30 bands with over 200 people. 180 of those now think i'm a tosser. the remaining 20 are dead/missing.
   • [10:01 on 05/06/08]
8. • Ollie
   • Suddenly I don't have enough time in the day!!!!
   • [10:32 on 05/06/08]
9. • bad admiral
   • this is why i'm such a badass. i fill my day with learning. *ping*
     
     and talking out of my bum flaps here!!!
   • [10:45 on 05/06/08]
10. • Jack
    • bad admiral says:

      
      - take up smoking.
      
      - interview yourself in your head whilst sitting on the toilet
      
      - pretend to be a spy
      
      - start an argument about politics with a colleague
      
      - teach yourself the theory of a new skill such as: throwing playing cards with deadly accuracy; tantric breathing; hebrew alphabet; 8 ways to kill a man barehanded; corracal building; navigating by the stars; rollerskating backwards, etc.
      
      - see how high you can fire your wee without messing stuff up.
      
      - plait a lock of hair.
      
      - slyly remember some porn you've watched
      
      - pretend you desk is a huge piano and that you are bruce hornsby. your co-workers are the range. now youtube that song about nothing changing and copy it and "fire" members of "the range" for "not vibing enough".
      
      - spreadsheet on excel of every band you've been in and all the people you've played with, including dates and reasons for leaving. bands that never gigged don't count unless they've made a recording. mine takes about 4 hours and it turns out i've been in about 30 bands with over 200 people. 180 of those now think i'm a tosser. the remaining 20 are dead/missing.
      
      
      
      Tosser
    • [10:49 on 05/06/08]
11. • Ollie
    • Does that make it 181 or were you including Jack...assuming he's not dead or missing.
    • [10:58 on 05/06/08]
12. • Jack
    • I'm a tosser too so we get on great
    • [11:03 on 05/06/08]
13. • bad admiral
    • Jack Dickinson says:

      
      

      bad admiral says:

      
      - take up smoking.
      
      - interview yourself in your head whilst sitting on the toilet
      
      - pretend to be a spy
      
      - start an argument about politics with a colleague
      
      - teach yourself the theory of a new skill such as: throwing playing cards with deadly accuracy; tantric breathing; hebrew alphabet; 8 ways to kill a man barehanded; corracal building; navigating by the stars; rollerskating backwards, etc.
      
      - see how high you can fire your wee without messing stuff up.
      
      - plait a lock of hair.
      
      - slyly remember some porn you've watched
      
      - pretend you desk is a huge piano and that you are bruce hornsby. your co-workers are the range. now youtube that song about nothing changing and copy it and "fire" members of "the range" for "not vibing enough".
      
      - spreadsheet on excel of every band you've been in and all the people you've played with, including dates and reasons for leaving. bands that never gigged don't count unless they've made a recording. mine takes about 4 hours and it turns out i've been in about 30 bands with over 200 people. 180 of those now think i'm a tosser. the remaining 20 are dead/missing.
      

      
      
      Tosser
      
      
      
      you're certainly in the majority there as you are neither dead nor missing. i would post my "band cv" but it's huge and not interesting.
      
      you mantra-ing tomoz?
      
      more suggestions to brighten ollie's day:
      
      - develop an addiction to eucalyptus like a giat koala. buy some fisherman's friends, a vick's inhaler, some olbas oil, extra strong lockets and drop some of that fine menthol shit. you will get a reputation as "the human cough sweet".
      
      - flirt outrageously.
      
      - solitaire
      
    • [11:07 on 05/06/08]
14. • Jack
    • Mantra yes i am
    • [11:14 on 05/06/08]
15. • Ollie
    • Don't forget...be early to mantra!!!!
    • [11:19 on 05/06/08]
16. • bad admiral
    • will do what time you on? 8? 7.30?
    • [11:34 on 05/06/08]
17. • Ollie
    • 8.15...an unholy time for rock and roll!!!
    • [11:45 on 05/06/08]
18. • Ollie
    • I've worked out I've been in 8 bands with a total of 24 people other than myself. None of them are dead, some I don't know where they are, some will think I'm a tosser and at least 6 of which I think are tossers.
      
      I've also worked out that in these bands I've put out a total of 7 demos and released another 3 CDs on 3 different labels with at least one more on the way on another label and had tracks on 5 different compilations.
      
      I'm bored again now!!!
    • [12:49 on 05/06/08]
19. • Ollie
    • Just had a glimmer of interest, the police have just turned up and arrested some woman who was about to throw herself off the flyover that runs past our office. Spent a good 5 minutes rubbernecking that before realising nothing else was going to happen.
      
      Bored again now.
    • [13:06 on 05/06/08]
20. • bad admiral
    • Ollie says:

      
      I've worked out I've been in 8 bands with a total of 24 people other than myself. None of them are dead, some I don't know where they are, some will think I'm a tosser and at least 6 of which I think are tossers.
      
      I've also worked out that in these bands I've put out a total of 7 demos and released another 3 CDs on 3 different labels with at least one more on the way on another label and had tracks on 5 different compilations.
      
      I'm bored again now!!!
      
      
      
      mine looks more like war and peace.
    • [13:19 on 05/06/08]

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