James

Think my main issue is that the work isn't even difficult. It's just very boring. I'm not some sort of super genius, but I am happiest when reaching for something, not trudging through shite.

They're a rip off for students. The state of academic publishing is a disgrace. Academics are incredibly annoying. Everything I do in this job is a waste of my life to the point that doing NOTHING would be a net benefit for the world.

All this to say, this is a waste of my time. I want to spend work time preparing for certification exams and making my own software so I can leave this fucking stupid university.

At the end I need to slot the old university departments into the new structure. I think this could be sort of automated, but you'd spend the same amount of time just doing it yourself 👎

The only way if getting the input is to carefully go through a webpage clicking links and copying info from the pages into a text file.

If it wasn't for this and the small amount of manual work at the end it could almost be a "click and go" thing.

Managed to write a script that generates the outputs needed for this translation work.

Afterwards it needs a small amount of manual work, but that's no big deal.

Generating the input files is an absolute nightmare.

The night it happened, she had shit two kids in the front garden behind a small garden gate and said "I want to speak to your parents".

The police have suggested she doesn't take things further with them as she technically "kidnapped" the racist children that have been abusing them for weeks.

So this family of black people have been the victim of verbal racist abuse by kids from their daughters school. Come and call them all sorts at their front door.

One thing led to another and the Mum ended up being severely beaten by two men, then had bleach poured in her eyes.

Never seen him, but I'll keep my eyes peeled 👀

Merseyside murder probe after woman found dead at home Rose Johnston, 68, found at her home in Dovecot, suffered a

Without doxxing myself, this is not far from me. So there is a murderer knocking around.

BBC News - Merseyside murder probe after woman found dead at home - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Heather made a little gif of Zach apparently having the time of his life earlier today. I'm not fed up on this, I'm humming a little tune.

"distressing" and "angry" barely scratch the surface, but I'm not in a wordy mood

Sister told me some really distressing news of something that happened in the road next to mine last week. I'm so angry about it.

And also because fuck work 🙏

Taking the dogs out at 4pm. Full on clock watching because today has not been particularly easy.

My ten month old child is quite keen on doing this. Have to stress to him that you shouldn't be sucking water out of the thing you use to wash yourself.

Horrible. Thanks for that.

Maybe vice chancellors should be good at finance instead of rearranging the deckchairs on the titanic. I don't know for sure. I am just the ideas guy.

Every time the university alters it's structure I need to do this. The university structure seems to change every five fucking minutes.

I need to do a translation from the originating system to mine. Then do a translation from the received data to how it visually displays to the public. I can't be aaaaaarsed.

Got to do a fun/awful bit of translation work between two systems. Trying to find the webpage to start this terrible task is going to finish me.

It’s happened again

For the sake of clarity, I've just had my breakfast. The sensation I'm feeling is the very normal process of mechanical digestion in my stomach as it does it's thing.

Je suis le premier ministre français

Like I can push through headaches and colds, but I simply can not work from a toilet lol

It's bad enough having one parent down, but to have two down. Nothing will get done. The risk of transmission to Zach immediately doubles. The dogs won't get walked. I'll have to take my first ever day off sick from work.

Every time I have any sort of sensation in my stomach at the moment I'm like "this is it". No way to live.

Heather has some sort of gastrointestinal illness at the moment and I have never washed my hands so much.

They were sound tbf. Rather than walking away and her dog getting further away I stopped and they just sniffed each others arses for a sec

Walked the girls round ours tonight and a total of three dogs managed to get out of their houses and go after them 🤷‍♂️

One owner complimented us on how well behaved they were after being ambushed.