I was working today for the first Christmas Eve in years (and possibly decades). We wanted some cover and I wasn't planning to travel (actually, probably no-one else did in the end, but hey). I worked a short day; it was wonderfully quiet (only two emails actually sent by a person also working) and no meetings at all. I got things done. And I revelled in the lack of emergencies.
Today we wrapped presents and I finished the Christmas cake. bateleur braved Tescos for the Last Shop Before Christmas (we hope). Reeve slept (mostly).
I still have things to do before Friday. Finishing the Christmas cake, some more work (my last day is Christmas Eve but, with luck, short and quiet). More importantly - some more Wednesday gaming. However, nearly there.
I've made a chocolate cake for bateleur's birthday. It's always a slightly fragile cake (it works on egg whites), but worthwhile. And bateleur has interesting (other) food plans for dinner.
My online Monster Hunter group met for the last time this year (OK, as one of them said, there's only a week and a half left...). But we advanced the story line and there were some satisfying captures.
Yesterday was the team quiz. My team had an appalling start, but eventually recovered a little. We were much better at the films round than the news round. One of my team mates does well in quiz rounds about goats (which says a lot about some of the work quiz themes) but we didn't get one of them.
At some point I'll write about IT fails of the last two days. Top of the list (with stiff competition) was discovering my password didn't work yesterday morning. The helpdesk insisted I had to be typing it in wrong, instead it turned out that IT had changed it when configuring my new laptop. I wasn't pleased.
Also I watched the end of Lucifer season 3. It's definitely got better as it's gone along, but the last two episodes felt out of place (deliberately I assume).
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