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	<title>Symbolic Forest &#187; decadance</title>
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		<title>&#8220;20% of sick days are taken on Fridays&#8230;&#8221;</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;&#8230;this is clearly unacceptable&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not a real quote, by the way.  It was adapted from a <a href="http://www.dilbert.com/"><i>Dilbert</i></a> strip.*  I&#8217;m sure people have used it and meant it at some point, though.</p>
<p>End of another week, and the start of another busy weekend.  I&#8217;ve been going to so many different towns and cities lately, I should send back postcards from them all.  This weekend, I&#8217;m off to yet another different part of the country.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve become resigned to the fact that there&#8217;s going to be nothing on but football for the next month.  Me and Big Dave might have our differences, but neither of us can stand football, and we&#8217;re both fed up of the World Cup before it&#8217;s even begun.  More on this tomorrow.</p>
<p>Some interesting rumours are apparently going round the office as to what I do on all these weekend trips away I&#8217;ve been doing lately.  They&#8217;re far more excited and lurid than the actual truth, so I can&#8217;t really be bothered to correct them all.  Noone dares ask me, anyway. They all ask Dave instead, who doesn&#8217;t have a clue,* and that hardly helps stop the rumours spreading.</p>
<p>In any case, you can tell I live a decadent lifestyle.  I had strawberries and cream for <i>breakfast</i> this morning.  It doesn&#8217;t get much more decadent than that.</p>
<p>I mentioned <a href="/blog/2006/05/26/friday-again/">a couple of weeks ago</a> that one of the management has a blog now, and <a href="http://upsaid.com/sarsparilla">Sarsparilla</a> said: &#8220;what if it&#8217;s better than yours?&#8221;  Well, I&#8217;ve read it since then.  And I know this sounds like I&#8217;m blowing my own trumpet, but it isn&#8217;t.  In fact, it&#8217;s one of the most banal websites I&#8217;ve ever seen.  I won&#8217;t be linking, because he does check his stats, but the design is terrible and the content is minimal:</p>
<blockquote><p>Traffic home is still terrible, the town is full of traffic diverted away from Jameson Bridge St.  Went to the Fox and Hounds after work, though &#8211; the grub is dead good, and I&#8217;d recommend it to anyone if you fancy a meal.</p></blockquote>
<p>And that&#8217;s an entire day&#8217;s entry.  I know this site can be crap sometimes, but &#8230; well, I now know I&#8217;m not the <i>worst</i> in the world.</p>
<p><small>* Dave might act like a womaniser sometimes, but he&#8217;s completely <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_sex">vanilla</a>, and a bit scared of anything outside that.</small></p>
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