Virtual Office Tuesday 21st July

[byslantedlight]

Not been out on the hacktrack yet - I'll start work first today - so maybe some lads at work, for motivation... They're investigating something on a film set, where one of the cast is the daughter of a politician and has been threatened, but is adamant that she's not going to give up her relatively minor part. The lads have to protect her and find out what's up... Well, maybe one day I'll write it properly. *g*

It's Only a Beautiful Picture - that's another ep I like, even though the lads aren't together as much as I'd prefer. Wandering the London streets together though, and then they're out of ordinary context again - off undercover, in the deepest countryside, with each other the only contact... a sugar-beet salesman and a rebellious London cop. Now there's an AU... *g* Maybe I'll watch the ep tonight - if I get on and...

...work. I didn't finish until about half-ten last night, because I broke off in the middle for a few hours, and then made one of my Riverford recipes (only nice if you like mushrooms, which I don't much), and... well, it turns out I'm still rubbish with Job 1. It's weird - I had to sit in one place for Job 2 as well - maybe it's more that Job 2 involves contact with other people, but Job 1 is just plonked here on my lonesome, with no one to distract/interest me... But I shall try again today - and this time do the longer document first.

Today's Work
Fiddle practice
Job 1 pgs 1-10
Job 1 pgs 11-20
Job 1 pgs 21-30
Post office
Fiddle practice
Job 1 pgs 31-40
Job 1 pgs 1-10
Job 1 download docs
Hacktrack walk

A Victorian post *g*

ETA - Yes! Hooray and yes for lj sorting out the formatting glitches with XColibur! My fab layout lives again! *vbg*

Comments

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I just can't seem to get this job to work properly for me - I know it's all in my head that it doesn't, I just have to get my head around it. If I work late at night on it, then that's how it is - I need to accept that and just get on with enjoying the rest of the day and making it constructive! Stoopid head... *g* Rats for your job application - but it's good to be fresh for them rather than jaded, so - onward and upward, right? *g*

It's Only A Beautiful Picture is the one where the baddies are smuggling ancient statues and paintings etc. out of the country in a wee plane, and there's a slavering doberman that Bodie fights off with an electric heater in a pub, and there's Doyle dancing to music on the radio and pissing off his superiors on purpose, and they pretend-meet in the local pub and sit in the beer garden and chat... *sighs happily* It's this gorgeous ep (which post explains the next bit, so check out the next one first, if you've time *g* - and also the ep where this happens, which I'd forgotten about and I love - their smiles at each other there! *sighs happily again*

[dollidaydream.livejournal.com]

I *knew* I could count on you - the minute you mention slavering doberman and fire, I was with you! If only those prosaic episode guides on the net had focused less on the art and artifacts and more on Doyle looking hot on his motorbike, I would have been on it! *bg* Mind you, that yellow t-shirt he wears in the gallery has actually, finally, come back into fashion (colourwise, but maybe only for the gals).

I'm sorry that you are struggling with work. One thing I know now is that I really couldn't work from home. It's so *sapping*. However do you cope??

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh, sapping is an excellent word for it! Yes, it is somehow - it saps all your energy. I don't know why though - it shouldn't, it really shouldn't... but I suspect it might depend on what else you have going on at home, and when it's not anything that makes all the difference...

And yes! The yellow t-shirt! (Although I do object to the idea that various colours are only suitable for one or other gender - I hate the idea that we might have missed out on Doyle in yellow, or Bodie in pink, or that I'm not supposed to be wearing blue/black/whatever colour they decide isn't "feminine". Just - gargh!

I like them wandering around the gallery too, being all civilised... and then pushed right back to settling for sausage sarnies at Nell's Caf... *vbg*

Actually, do you know Dave Matthew's Professionals website (I was going to include the link, but it seems to be down right now)? That has good summaries of the eps... I've been thinking that I might reorganise my tags too, and have one for each ep, so if I can get to work for gawd's sake! maybe that'd be a fun job for sometime... *g*