Have finished up at the Ministry of Coughs and Sneezes after 9 months. Some great people, would have been lovely it had had some Management that understood that IT is more than just budgeting. Hey ho.

Signed off with some sass, my last words – after the traditional Littlest Hobo theme tune link – being

Looking forward to starting the new contract at the Ministry of Blackboards on Monday, though less so being back in an office and so close to the Village of the Dumbed currently camped outside Parliament.

Welcome back to the all-nighter insomnia, it’s been a while.

We’ve shared some podcasts, listened to some radio, stalked comedians on Twitter, read a few chapters of the current book and done some Deep Nighttime Thinking. But not managed any actual sleep.

What’s the earliest you can make breakfast?

I might need to hand over my admin permissions and leave IT. I got Rickrolled like a n00b.

I got too eager to watch the promised Kenobi trailer and fell for a fake video that gave me 20 seconds of fake Ewan McGregor in a desert footage before cutting to the classic Never Gonna Give You Up video. Damn but it was class. Not even angry, just embarrassed to fall for it.

Back to usual poor scores in the quiz tonight – a fat zero in the first round then 21 in the second. Couldn’t remember any Ocean Colour Scene singles for the 3 in 10 either. Eejit!

Just want it known that I have just scored a combined score of 60 on yesterday’s Pop Master quiz – and got the 3 in 10! Broken my previous record by about 20.

Scored it while trying to wind down after a fairly crap work day so feels like I can call it even.

Relieved the hear the news that New Zealand’s borders are slowing opening up again, and that MIQ is being phased out for most in favour of self-isolation. It means I can start to hope for a trip to see The Oldies and wider family some time later in the year. Fingers crossed we don’t get any more nasty variants popping up and we can slowly get back to some kind of normality.

Cute footage of a Kiwi native bird flying off with a GoPro camera.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/04/kleptomaniac-new-zealand-parrot-steals-gopro-films-airborne-escape