Another frustrating day at work. Useful meeting in the morning with our American colleagues outlining how parts of the system work. Problem was, it took a while for some of the others to 'get it,' and once again numerous discussions started on 'but a better design would be...;' 'have you considered this?' All very well, but that's just not how ( Read more... )

...so another short entry!

Frustrating day at work, and not feeling brilliant when I got home, but it's amazing what a little preoccupation can do for one. Got a couple of boxes unpacked (including bedroom stereo - yay!), did most of my paperwork and then EQ for a bit. The new tasks are hard, so might suggest some FV spider-killage for next Monday ( Read more... )

So a short entry.

Good day at work, nice session of EverQuest. Ithankyou.

Had a very relaxing but hugely unproductive day today. Off to the Cap In Hand for lunch (I don't know why I don't go to a better pub for my Sunday lunch - shall have to re-explore Surbiton's establishments) then back home to watch A New Hope, Scrapheap Challenge and a few Futurama commentaries. Did the ironing, tidied the house a little and not a ( Read more... )

...but there's now a Starbucks in Surbiton. I love Grumpy Old Men, being one myself (if it's possible at 34 years of age) but Bob Geldof's comment on Starbucks was brilliant. Something along the lines of 'to be honest, they brought good, reasonably-priced coffee to the UK, but it's just a shame that all the other small cafés and coffee places have ( Read more... )

I only created a user on here to comment on Giryan's entries, but something in me had an urge to start blogging myself. I can't promise that I'll keep this up-to-date, and I doubt I will, but I used to keep a personal diary many moons ago (though thankfully I haven't read it for ages, either), so who knows ( Read more... )