What Are You Working On/Doing Right Now? (General)

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Construction mode, activate!

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Needs some more paint and the other 3 pieces for the top cap then she's wrapped up and I can start on the gate.
 
I've just finished calculating annual leave entitlements for 20,000 NHS staff. Calculations include contracted hours, length of service, purchased leave, local agreements and carry over of remaining leave from the previous years (plus doctors leave is calculated completely differently from the rest of us). Factor in different rights for staff on maternity leave and staff on long term sick and it's at least 2 weeks work. I then spend the following 50 weeks arguing with everyone until next year 🤣
I've done it every year for the last 12 but it never gets easier.
 
Cleaning my work station...

My workmate thought he saw a mouse in his office this morning and there are a couple of mouse droppings to prove it.

I had a little check around my workstation, and to my horror I found a couple of mouse droppings too, and I even noticed that there was a strange tear in the side of a page in my notebook, and it's clearly been nibbled at... 🤢 Kind of disgusting, but arguably a wake-up call to get tidying up a bit...
 
Reviving. Apparently nobody’s working on anything 🤣🤣🤣

I’ve got about 1000 hockey cards to alphabetize and put into binders.
I love the collecting, hate the organization.
I’m sitting on a minimum of 20 thousand cards.
Alphabetizing Andersons, Smiths and Thomas’s and everything in between is a head ache.
Easy to reference but a nightmare to do.

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Current school project is a small pond for my upcoming plants and animals unit in science class.

It’s a basic bucket with a layer of soil, sand and then gravel. There are a few aquatic plants I’ve put in and about 6 guppies to keep the mosquitoes at bay.

An aerator stone hooked up to a solar panel helps keep the water moving during daylight hours.

The office complained it looks ugly but I’ve spent 0 cash on this so I’m happy with the set up. It’ll take a while for the plants to grow and hopefully the local frogs might spawn there too.

I’ll introduce some shrimps and more aquatic plants throughout the next week. The water is clear now, the pic above was when I first set it up so the water was a bit murky from the gravel dust.

I’m hoping to set up something similar at home so I can have an option on plants and livestock to mix and match as the topic necessitates.

I have some filter media I will chick in next week to get the beneficial bacteria thriving and keep the project healthy.

Have had an issue with local doggos drinking off some of the water but I don’t mind. I though I had a leak at first.

If this project is a success, I’ll go a step bigger next year and increase the pond size and maybe hook it to the mains for pump filtration.
 
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