To retake, and pass, my theory driving test. It seems that there are shortages of driving instructors it’s going to be tricky to pass my test before the end of the year. I hav3 the aim of driving home for Christmas as my parents are getting too old to come down and pick me up.

lockdown has aged them, and not only am I worried about them, there’s a ( Read more... )

Tutelary deity will be the vulture.

Hitherto it has been the god of chaos and I’ve had enough of that. I have a new job starting in June. It’s well paid but rumour has it they’re awful! Can’t be as bad as my current lot.

Onwards and upwards, and into the new year.

May post virus gives us what we want.

God I wasted a lot of time on Totty didn’t I?

Also on my job?

I’ve just reread my old lj entries and that was three years I could have spent drinking and having fun

And they’re really quite fun.  not great works of literature but entertaining enough.

and I’ve enjoyed being back in the company of old friends and feeling a bit more like my old self

Like I hate my boss and a lot of my colleagues and my clients are annoying and I’m wondering ... is it me or does everyone hate people like this.

Mind you at my old firm I hated my bosses and no one else so maybe it’s just this poisonous job attracting poisonous clients

We had a 3.3 minor earthquake this morning right under my house. Went off like thunder, house actually shook, nothing broken but all the neighbours came out to see what on Earth happened.

Wheeee 2020 is a ride

My job is awful, stressful, and time consuming. Evenings, weekends, I’m just exhausted and stressed and worn out and at the end of my tether and will still have to Keep On despite this because Money and Mortgage and Wants to buy a Car ( Read more... )

Screams into the void

I have tried doing stuffs to move life forward and they've not gone well due to the fact that no one has simple email systems any more, they've got smart AI systems to deal with issues, only not with the issue that I have, viz trying to find out just how much of an Egyptology first degree I did twenty years ago so that I can ( Read more... )

Iz slightly back.

I did pick up your messages around the time of my birthday, for which much thanks, but I was rather unwell. I don't know if it was the coronavirus, but I felt awful, sniffled on the sofa and napped for a whole month or thereabouts.

And then I was knackered from being ill, and I'm only just getting back on top of things round the ( Read more... )

The exchange account.

GinnyW suggested something to mark 20 years, there were at least ten people interested so...

We're getting the band back together. Or I wish we could.

I'm not sure I remember how this all works, but there we are