Black Dog Blog

That was nice. I've just listened through a Radio 4 documentary about women in the army, which is exactly what I needed to be researching for my own writing, and because it was in a meeting, I get to call it work.

The producer's comments before and afterwards were useful too. Quite a bit to think about.

And it meant I got my face about up on 5th, which is always good. Since we moved down to be with the other geeks (ah, bliss) on the ground floor, we haven't been seen around the Religion department as much. I try to keep my paw in up there, and if that means attending functions and leaving parties at which there is free orange juice (really nice stuff this time… tasted like Tropicana, I think? Quite sweet) then, well, it's no great hardship.

I've been socialising so much at work recently. Going out to the weekly pub lunches with the geeks (I generally just have a drink), the odd meetings with the old department, meeting new people while helping out with the Ents newsletter (so good they've asked me to do it three times, despite the first one being "a one-off, honestly"… I nodded and, quietly clairvoyantly, kept the template files I'd made), training someone (!!) the other day to update a database, upload stuff and use Adobe Acrobat Writer (which I've never even used myself) and active and helpful on the internal mailing lists and Yammer. It's quite surprising. I'm looking askance at my definitely-autistic self. I wouldn't be surprised if my name's becoming known.

(And it is—at least, a lot of people have told me it's cool!)

Oh, and I played with my browser settings. The title bar now reads "Mutt's Weblague > Create New Post — Wordpress – Best-Fox 3.0.3 | All Hail Herms". This is done through the MR Tech Local Install extension; there's also a randomiser that comes up with "Mozilla SlimeParrot" etc.

Another useful link: monitor calibration tool.