So I went home over the weekend. Well, that is to say I went to visit my parents. Odd phrase, that. "I went home". I'm 27, I rent a room and I live day to day with my girlfriend. My home is London now, no doubt about it. But back with my parents.. that's, I suppose always home to everyone.
Sorry, tangent. There are an awful lot of dogs there. It's like dog-a-rama. And they're mostly huge. 2 borzois (6 months old and already they're bigger than Chloe, the whippet) and Ed the Enormous Alsatian. German Shepard. I don't know, what's the preferred nomenclature? Anyway, most of the time you're drowning in dog, but it's always good to see the folks, even if it was only quite a short time. Very short. Watched I, Robot at the Kinema, which is always fun even if the film is a bit shite.
Oh, yeah, it was my last day at work yesterday. I got a card signed by everyone, and a present and a collection of cash and lunch bought for me and it was lovely and everyone was very sweet. I've never really had that in a long-term job - either it was like Unipart and we were all leaving or it was OnDigital and I just flaked the fuck out of it and didn't come back. So that was actually quite touching.
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I still have my parents' number down as 'Home' on my phone even though I haven't lived there for years.
The preferred nomenclature for Ed is "wolf" :)
He's just a big softie, really.
You worked at OnDig? I worked on the web site for six weeks.
Absolutely I worked for OnDigital, it was a glorious time of my life. I worked in the technical department, telling people how to use their own VCRs - I was sort of like a multi-function instruction manual. After too many "I can't get teletext, I'm calling my MP and Anne Robinson. In that order, no wait, the other way round!" type calls, I just cracked and quit.
I have to say I barely looked at the website, sorry. It was for Them, not Us.
That's OK. It was simply the worst, most user-unfriendly, bitchy, low-rent, badly-designed disgrace that couldn't even run to a decent CMS. And it was designed by the company that I helped set up. And I got sacked.
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