Rich Blake

I hear Mutley in this photo.

Top work! What are your top picks so far?

My service to Hertford North (on the tannoy) says Cambridge North on all of the in train signs.

I am feeling quite tired. so let's see if I end up in the right county or not.

Need to spot a Brit in Helldivers 2?

Simple!

Watch for people getting into the right hand side of the fast recon vehicle expecting to put the pedal to metal and get the hell out of danger.

Then a sad pause, followed by a 'loop of shame' where we run around to the left side. Drive on Diver!

Welcome to Jira Camp.

We're going to stand in a circle, and update each other on how we got on.

When you're done. just trust fall into the arms of the next person so they know it's their turn to talk.

I WAS RIGHT FFS!

In today's episode of Rich is an idiot. I've been playing a lot of Clair Obscur.

It has a lot of French swearing in it, which I don't know the words for 😇

Anyway I've figured out that they're not exclaiming about a Canadian dish of chips, cheese and gravy when bad things happen.

A large rusty nail points pointy bit up on a very old rickety picnic table

The pricks in my pub come with a follow up tetanus shot.

Who's taking part in 'bring your parents to work day' tomorrow.

And will it help them understand what you do?

How many of them are going to have a sleepless night thinking you're going to physically put them inside a computer?

Was feeling the high of hearing my new PC is on the way.

Then hit by the car crash low of seeing the words 'our delivery partner is DPD'.

This is a really nice post. Would love to see more writing like this everywhere I work in the GDS.

Slack is such a menace for focus.

Playing a co-op campaign of BG3 and my companion made a bad roll which angered Scratch during the meet.

And now I need to spend the next sixty hours campaign being cross at them.

Poor Scratch.

Ah! Sunshines out.

Time to start my annual campaign annoying my science friends by saying

'Ahh time to cool down with a refreshing, cooling cup of tea'

Hello Germany 👋

Please can you think about the name of the compound noun that you'd use to describe the feeling of editing a 500 page document using Microsoft word on a slow laptop.

If you can't help, I may need to learn how to communicate in emoji. 🐌😭😱🚨😅

There's been a great disturbance in the force.

Jira has moved the drop down to transition the state of a story.

The plans for the death star can't go into 'sent' if you can't find the drop down to change the status from 'open planetary shield' after you've fought Krennic on the Comms tower.

We need to come up with a word to describe the temperature of water that comes out of your pipes after we've all set out boilers into summer mode because of one 'almost' heat wave two weeks ago.

My local council has switched from one 'remember what bin day it is' tool to another, but they've got rid of the old tool without putting in place the new tool until an unspecified date...

My neighbour is on holiday.

So I guess we're in the end times now.

Slip of the day..

Don't worry. I'll do the Spreadshit bit for you, so you don't have to.

Spreadsheets Rich. 🙈

Scientists should study the nausea created by asking your northern friend (bonus pain: I'm also a northerner) how much they'd reckon the flat you're living in would cost

If a colleague tells you they've just redone their website and are going to start writing some more blog posts, I will be happy for them... but also start planning for them to leave 🤣

Had a power cut this morning about 7 am. Just got home and reset the cooker clock.

And now my flat will be operating on the Next Power Cut time zone until further notice.

It's now 00.01 NPC

Split Fiction is hands down the most fun video game I've played in a really long time.

It's funny, silly and really well designed.

You know when you are old when you have to introduce the idea that there's an actor called Adam Sandler and he had a movie called waterboy to someone during a tea break at work.

I'm not into contact sports but that was wild. Bluesky artists 1 - Adobe 0.

Well played.

Since ancient times it's been said that eclipses aren't truly over until you've checked the chart of Google searches to see the spike in search terms like 'Why are my eyes sore' 🌙

Just wrote the sentence 'Jira is infinite' and I had to go take a break and have a word with myself in the mirror.

This is a call to all friends of a fellow Kevin to follow my petition to have the Kiloelectronvolt (KeV) removed as the keyboard default abbreviation when you type 'Kev'. keV is more than just kinetic energy. He tells dad jokes too.

Feel I learned about myself:

For the second one, the stakes were high. I wanted to impress people I respect with something novel, and outside a comfort zone.

Pleased I'm able to deal with setbacks now. Need to keep challenging myself.

2 presentations today within 45 min to the same people

The first, improvised. It felt natural and fine.

Second prepared, but scripted. It caused a full on panic attack 2 hrs later. Knew from rehearsing it might happen

Brains are weird

It's OK to find presentations tough

Important to do anyway