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Jan. 8th, 2007 10:00 pmToday, thanks to a shift swap with Amanda, I was working for the other side of the unit. Which meant access to their nibbles table. Which contained half a dozen mince pies, a plateful of chocolate raisins, and - courtesy of a lady called Jane whose birthday it is - a whole tin of Celebrations. Ah well, there'll be time enough later in the month to resume my healthier eating campaign.
During the first hour, I had to go over to the front desk to report a refusal; when I got there I had to wait for Sally, as she was dealing with one of the girls, so while I waited I helped myself to a mince pie. As the lady in front of me turned away, she said to me "How can you face mince pies so soon after Christmas?"
The weather taketh away, but the weather also giveth. Reading The News at tea time, an article on Hawks' game at the weekend being called off ended with a paragraph saying their Russell Cotes Cup match with Fawley, scheduled for tonight while I was at college, had been put back to Wednesday to allow the pitch to dry out. I know it's only the Mickey Mouse Cup, but beggars can't be choosers :)
Back to college this evening. It was nice to be asking everyone "Did you have a good Christmas?" The five of us who were moving on to graphs tonight had to wait while Joan dealt with some of the others; as I'd already done some graph work before Christmas I made a start on the exercise. Alas, having been away for a month I'd forgotten how to fill an individual segment of a graph in with a pattern like brickwork or diagonal lines, for black-and-white printing. Thank goodness, before too long Joan called all five of us together and went through the whole bar and pie chart procedure step by step. Just after that, Liz called me over to help her set a column to integer format.
A bit later, following identical requests from both Helen and me, Joan had to give us briefings on getting the computer to treat years as text instead of numeric data (as Helen and I both observed, it was making nonsense of our line graphs) and, towards the end, on setting the limits of an axis and reducing the size of a chart.
During coffee break, Karen asked me whether I worked at HMS Centurion; I told her where I really work and she said "My sister-in-law's there, but she's in the telephone unit." Her sister-in-law turned out to be Julie #1. Karen was most amused that I knew Julie - "I'm going to have to talk to her!"
At 8.55 Joan announced "It's five to nine, start shutting down now - you've all done a lot tonight, you've done too much." Diana, who wasn't of our quintet but whom Joan had spent much of the period helping with her spreadsheets, called out "Yes, I have." "ALL of you, not just Diana!" Joan declaimed, prompting "Feels like it's just me!" from Diana.
It's good to be back.
During the first hour, I had to go over to the front desk to report a refusal; when I got there I had to wait for Sally, as she was dealing with one of the girls, so while I waited I helped myself to a mince pie. As the lady in front of me turned away, she said to me "How can you face mince pies so soon after Christmas?"
The weather taketh away, but the weather also giveth. Reading The News at tea time, an article on Hawks' game at the weekend being called off ended with a paragraph saying their Russell Cotes Cup match with Fawley, scheduled for tonight while I was at college, had been put back to Wednesday to allow the pitch to dry out. I know it's only the Mickey Mouse Cup, but beggars can't be choosers :)
Back to college this evening. It was nice to be asking everyone "Did you have a good Christmas?" The five of us who were moving on to graphs tonight had to wait while Joan dealt with some of the others; as I'd already done some graph work before Christmas I made a start on the exercise. Alas, having been away for a month I'd forgotten how to fill an individual segment of a graph in with a pattern like brickwork or diagonal lines, for black-and-white printing. Thank goodness, before too long Joan called all five of us together and went through the whole bar and pie chart procedure step by step. Just after that, Liz called me over to help her set a column to integer format.
A bit later, following identical requests from both Helen and me, Joan had to give us briefings on getting the computer to treat years as text instead of numeric data (as Helen and I both observed, it was making nonsense of our line graphs) and, towards the end, on setting the limits of an axis and reducing the size of a chart.
During coffee break, Karen asked me whether I worked at HMS Centurion; I told her where I really work and she said "My sister-in-law's there, but she's in the telephone unit." Her sister-in-law turned out to be Julie #1. Karen was most amused that I knew Julie - "I'm going to have to talk to her!"
At 8.55 Joan announced "It's five to nine, start shutting down now - you've all done a lot tonight, you've done too much." Diana, who wasn't of our quintet but whom Joan had spent much of the period helping with her spreadsheets, called out "Yes, I have." "ALL of you, not just Diana!" Joan declaimed, prompting "Feels like it's just me!" from Diana.
It's good to be back.
