Mostly inconsequential stuff
One of those rare postings: just a link to something that made me laugh this week. What do you get when you take a well known strip cartoon and take out the title character? Well, it's possible you'll get a load of crud, but in the case of Garfield Minus Garfield you get something very strange and very funny indeed.
Big changes are afoot. As of next week I will be working for another part of the organisation and in a higher pay band. The new job is as a Linux system administrator, helping to run the local LCG tier 2 centre. [LCG = LHC Computing Grid. LHC = Large Hadron Collider, the new super particle basher at CERN.] Should be fun and provide me with a lot to learn. The thing is that I am not fully leaving my current job for another month, as I will be continuing to help with transition to new staff with a part of my time, but that'll only be a headache for a short while.
Looking forward to it...
So there we were at the noodle bar, the Youngling in her highchair and munching through spring rolls, noodles and prawn crackers, when she noticed that <3 and I were dipping prawn crackers into a dish of chilli sauce. Next thing I have a cracker thrust at me with some waving and looks that left me in no doubt that the Youngling wanted it dipped too. Okay, I thought, so I dipped for her and handed it back. She sucked the sauce off and gave me the cracker again.
After a couple of iterations, we let the Youngling dip for herself, which she did in a very ladylike manner and continued to do so until eventually she stopped, pulled a face looking like she was chewing a wasp (or, perhaps a heap of chilli sauce) and expressed displeasure quite loudly.
A drink of water and some rice later and all was well again, though I don't think she trusts prawn crackers any more.
I get the feeling we are bad parents...
