It was another 6:30am start this morning, out for a small run as usual, uneventful even if it was a little harder than the normal run; 5-aside football at 9:30pm last night saw to that.. My calf isn’t pulling as badly as it was on friday so the run was a little easier in that respect, but it’s suprising how much the darkness affects you in the morning.
The trip from Fordingbridge to North Harbour was equally uneventful other than the normal picturesque drive along Roger Penny Way, one of the New Forest high points, before descending down to the belly of hell that is the M27. Suprisingly however, the m27 was pretty smooth running, so I was in work for 8am.
The day in my offices at IBM was frantic to say the least; a server upgrade that should have taken place on Friday is still going very very wrong. I’m only indirectly involved, having inherited development responsibility for an application that needs to be deployed on the new server, so it isn’t impacting on me. The whole process has been an utter shambles!
Took a couple of calls regarding my Smoking Gun project; the duplication company are still unable to master from the DLT tape that I sent them last week. It seems the problems they are having are either the exact problems I hilighted as a potential problem many many weeks ago, or the fact that they have never mastered a DVD-EXTRA interactive DVD before; I found out this morning that they have to have some special upgrade installed in order to get the mastering process to work. I kind of figured that Zootech would have passed this information on to them much earlier in the workflow. Workflow – that’s IBM rubbing off on me already… things are workflow or workstacks!
In all, work was, well, work… I started a new data-gathering application, but there is no need to bore you with the details about it here. Other than working with IBM products is tedious. Sorry guys if you read this, but your applications really suck!
Left work at 4:30pm in order to get home for Rebekah’s parents evening at 6pm. In a nutshell she seems to be settling into the new year very well, and we can see a huge improvement in her work. Her writing has really come on in the last couple of months and we already knew that her reading was exceptional. The teachers pretty much confirmed everything we expected.
I was home alone as Victoria was going out for the evening. So I got the kids ready and off to bed before starting my evening meal at about 8:30pm.
Decided to spend the evening working on Doomdark’s Revenge battle code… not going to bore you with that either other than to say that I got quite a bit done.
Got a phone call from Victoria’s father, the bill for the Hot Water Tank refit is in… another £400 quid spent on the central heating; so it’s cost me over a grand this year.
Also, the ongoing saga of his father seeking independence for himself continues… I won’t bore you with that either, but needless to say I really hope he manages to get a new flat soon and extract himself from his other blood sucking son and family! Really, why are families so messed up?
Hit the sack about midnight…
Gosh what an exciting life you lead. Its alsmost as exciting as mine! 🙂