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Back at the codeface
I cut my first code for over 10 years to day and it felt good ( Read more... ) -
"What would you say is your greatest weakness?"
The answer that popped out today was, "I can refuse to compromise. Some times I get so focused on the end result that I refuse to give up".
On reflection that makes me sound like The Terminator. -
London
Yesterday I took my first strip to London for 7 years that didn't in some way involve either work or medicine and I'm so glad that I did.
I've had mixed associations with London for many years. I have had some wonderful times there with many friends, but it's also where the love of my life died 25 years ago and where I spent a month dying slowly of ( Read more... ) -
Role play
Back when I started my "proper" job after a couple of years of drifting around the food and catering industry things seemed so simple, you worked hard, picked up new skills, did good things, got recognised, got on. Ah, such simple times ( Read more... ) -
Six months off the booze
Irritatingly, I do feel better for it. Yesterday I wandered down the booze aisle in Asda and stroked a bottle of tequila. -
Annual Report Time
Time once more to go through the bureaucratic hoops and timewasting that is the annual report. I have scored an "Exceeded" once more, which means that I have been great, smashing, super at my job, only just falling short of outstanding ( Read more... ) -
Skyline
I needed a blow of air after being inside for a few days with jobs to do and a day working from home as I had left myself short of one day of leave at the end of the year, so I borrowed my mother's dog and headed off for a two-hour amble over Cannock Chase. A lovely, blowy, muddy, wintery but not bitingly so sort of day, the perfect day for ( Read more... ) -
Smells Like Team Spirit
Christmas "do"s aren't what they used to be. When I first got a proper job and started to computerise the world back in the 80s I could hurl a roast potato and swill obnoxious mixtures of alcohol with the best of them. I would laugh uproariously as the once-a-year drinkers started to throw up in the shrubbery and Mark the database designer started ( Read more... ) -
The Happiness Of Joint Enterprise
I've been prompting for my local musical society. I used t be quite heavily involved but had to step away for a few years while I sorted some stuff out and then it never seemed the right time to go back. This was the right time and I'm so glad that I got involved again. It feels good doing something just for the fun of doing it, especially when a ( Read more... )