One stone

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Mike Mussard

Well I got on the scales this morning after a weekend away and got a rather pleasant surprise they said 121.1 kilos (19 stone and 1 lb) so I fed this number into my magic spreadsheet and it churned out the result that my total weight loss is now over a stone! (Or to be more exact it is 6.7kg or 1 stone and 0.8 lbs)

This has made me a very happy bunny, of course I am using Tuesday as my weekly weigh in day, so it won’t count till tomorrow that said I am going to have to muck up lots today to muck this whole stone up!

I think the hardest bit has been turning down other people’s offers of KFC as it is something I love, but so far the motivation to lose weight is strong this time!

UPDATE: It’s now Tuesday so weigh day and yes it’s officially a whole stone in January!

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Weather

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Mike Mussard

 

It’s now much darker than it was when I got on the train. I’m very glad to be onboard it and no longer outside. I’m also glad I checked the forecast so wore my coat rather than fleece that has prevented a proper soaking.

I do love this weather though nothing is quite like a good storm to enjoy watching. I’d quite like some added thunder and lightning though.

The met office maps look nicely yellow for most of the country over the next few days. Should be enjoyable!

 
Met Office

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Questions

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Mike Mussard

Today I have two questions;

1. Should one tell the random stranger on the train he is flying low?

2. What was my second question ARGH I forgot it :-(

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Computer gone pop

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Mike Mussard

How annoying is that my computer has decided it doesn’t want to work anymore the first symptom was graphics corruption, but upsettingly for me a change of graphics card doesn’t fix the stupid (insert rude words here) thing.

Guess I shall have to be lugging my work laptop home more often until I can sort out something more permanent!

I suppose the good news is at least the disk drive still appears healthy so a) I can get my data back and b) I can reuse it

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Cold

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Mike Mussard

It’s rather cold this morning! Why did I leave my hat at home? My ears actually hurt today. Well they did when I was waiting on the platform. Thankfully all now warmed back up.

All bunged up so going to pass on cycling in the cold this morning as I hate not being able to breath enogth when on a Borris bike.

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Advent calendar

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Mike Mussard

So what is acceptable procedure for an advent calendar? I’m away from tonight until Sunday.

I am quite happy to wait until Sunday for the Sunday (4th) chocolate, but can I get away with having Saturday’s sweet before I leave today or do I have to wait till Sunday?

I have a nasty feeling waiting until Sunday sounds more correct to me.

That said why on earth am I worrying there’s like a ton of sweets in the house.

I’ll switch back to worrying about what I forgot to pack for the weekend and what that lovely weather is going to do to me.

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Tell people and it will be fixed

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Mike Mussard

There is a coca-cola vending machine at work. It went wrong and was taking money and not giving refunds. Why was I the first person to write down the machine number and call the number on the machine?

Of course they are more than happy to send an engineer out to look at it, but if they never get told how do they know to fix it?

Maybe it’s because working in IT support I get upset when people don’t report problems to us that I am keen to report things. I just wish other people would take the time to report problems as often as I seem to.

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It’s worrying when

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Mike Mussard

Every morning I tend to get to the station in good time for my 0738 train, but it does worry me it seems without fail they announce the 0735 train to Hayes and that it will be 4 carriages long. Every morning it is 8 carriages long. Then I’ve not commented on this to Southeastern yet so I can’t complain too much.

I’ll get in tiuch with Southeastern when I get a chance then see if it does get fixed!

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msiexec /x {ProductCode} doesn’t work

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Mike Mussard

I’ve been having a fun week at work fighting bits of software and one bit required the removal of a Microsoft SQL Native Client. I first tried to do this using “msiexec /x {ProductCode}” and got “This action is only valid for products that are currently installed”

So I did a bit of google searching to see if there’s any chance I’ve got my product code I’m trying to uninstall wrong and came across wmic.

Now I get something much easier to remember off the top of my head. The command line to uninstall the SQL Native Client I’m using being:

wmic product where “name like ‘%SQL Native Client%’” call uninstall

Okay it takes a few seconds for wmic to do it’s work, but for the simple fact it’s using command lines I can write off the top of my head without first hunting the registry for class ID’s I’m rather happy!

I’m also quite liking how easy it is to pull the hard drive is failing type status out of WMI using WMIC.

C:\Users\Mike>wmic diskdrive get model,status
Model                                                                    Status
WDC WD5000AAKS-00A7B2 ATA Device  OK

Pred Fail is the answer we don’t like for status. I’m glad this my own machine isn’t showing the same failure  as the machine we found at work that was complaining of a hard disk drive about to fail.

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Pass either side for same destination

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Mike Mussard

This is one that really bugs me….

 

Pass either side for same destination

Pass either side for same destination

 

Why is this sign so often used incorrectly? If I can go one side of a traffic island for direction x and the other side for direction y it surely is not the same destination… Therefore the sign is wrong. I did try and ask my local council to fix this mistake, but that got nowhere. So I shall add to my list of grumbles.

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