Work Blog 1: Office move

We're moving offices at work. Our floor gets it doubly bad because we have to move upstairs for a week before the full move, so I am currently 2 metres higher and 5m closer to our final destination.

I've been tidying up in preparation of this for the past month, but I still ended up being the last one carrying piles of junk upstairs. This has also provided all sorts of opportunities to find interesting stuff.

I awarded myself the 1999 Quality Editorial Gold Award (just need a black pens to change the names).

Uncovered a Rubik's cube which I can very nearly do... two thirds so far - this last side is just impossible - but it provides a great distraction and I'm getting super fast at getting the top and middle so that's some kind of progress. Do you think they have world record attempts that only cover those two levels? A world record would be nice, but I think my hands are too shaky for it. Before anyone suggests it; I will not be pulling off the stickers, and I'd also rather not just check the internet for the solution, as actually using my brain to try and figure it out is equal parts frustrating and fulfilling. All corners are in place now, but I couldn't tell you how I did it. Sigh.

Best thing that I found would have to be the carton of Smoked Haddock Chowder I found while clearing out my superior's desk. Unexpected, hilarious and some how still in date. Could be I only find Smoked Haddock funny because it reminds me of Red Dwarf and Ace Rimmer. Those that don't know "Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast" are definitely missing out and need to track some quality British TV at the next opportunity. Strangely Red Dwarf popped up again today while I was checking Twitter, as it seems the Leicester Space Centre is having a Movie Mania weekend with a heavy Red Dwarf theme to Saturday.

Unfortunatly I can't go to that because I have used up my Geek quotient for this month by attending Doctor Who Live last weekend. It was all the music and monsters, really loud and hilarious to see tons of people dressed up. I took my sonic screwdriver and as the lights dropped the crowd filled with dots as other similarly minded individuals lit theirs as well. Pretty and quite funny to see.

Also mildly related to fish is the news story I tracked down first thing this morning. A Sea Snail that shoots a harpoon-like tooth full of paralysing venom into it's victims! Luckily for me they analysed the thing using TOF LC–MS so I get to read up on it. Sweet! It's also fun to discuss poisonous snails with people who only get to write about pharmaceuticals all day - sometimes my job is nice ;)