Or more accurately, my new slippers. I wear slippers at work because I get terrible static shocks from the building otherwise.
My old slippers were past their best;
So time for some new ones!
Today is going to be a long day. I’ve come in to work early as my car is being fixed (it’s been making a weird space alien metallic whirring sound — and no, it’s not the brake pads!) and one of my colleagues was kind enough to give me a lift in to work at 7:15 when he comes in.
I’m going to visit my parents over the weekend, although I’m hiring a van as a need to transport a bed back down here. Normally it takes me roughly 3 and a half hours to get up to my parents, although in a van I suspect it might take a bit longer.
It looks like my tax had been miscalculated for the entirety of my 6 month contract. I had been paying Basic Rate on all of my earnings. This got fixed this month so I got a nice rebate from the tax man.
In related news, my 6-month contract expired on 19th September, but was extended to the end of the month. From 1st October I will be working in a permanent position for @Road, A Trimble Company.
Update: Yippee… tax paid this month = £7.44. Excellent.
Sarah, Nick and Eleanor came over last weekend. We had a great time… nothing to strenuous on the Friday evening. Saturday we went to Thorpeness and Aldeburgh and buried Eleanor in pebbles. In the evening we went to the Ipswich Beer Festival and met up with some of my colleagues. Sunday we went to Easton Farm Park and saw lots of animals.
Photos are on flickr
As I’ve just migrated to using WordPress for my blog, I thought I’d add some useful information in my first post.
WordPress caches comment counts for each individual article in wp_posts.comment_count. If for some reason these cached values don’t match up to the real comment counts per article, you can fix this using the following SQL. This applies to WordPress 2.3. I don’t know if it will work for anything else.
UPDATE wp_posts
SET comment_count = (
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM wp_comments
WHERE wp_posts.ID=wp_comments.comment_post_id
GROUP BY wp_comments.comment_post_id
);
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