So lets try and add a little coherency this morning and do away with the ramblings.
Last night was fun in many ways. We went down to the Kensington for a leaving do and for a change Shug came out with this. This would have been a good thing except he beat me solidly in pool 3 games running. Last night was not the best pool night ever.
Nearly came to a fight with two assholes who came along and tried to take the pool tables we were playing at. I saw them have a go at Rich and John on the table next to us, when they told them to fuck off they came over and started to mouth off about them to us. It was only when I pointed out that we were in fact with them and calling them various things in front of the lot of us was a bad idea did it calm down a little.
It was strange, it was almost like we were waiting for them to say something or try something, there was just an air of anticipation. Anyway they eventually copped on and played some doubles which I am glad to say they were thrashed in.
Then after a while we moved around to be social and that’s when the real fun began. Had a good chat with some people I don’t normally chat that much to and that was about that.
I came home to find a cheque for just under £100 waiting for me. It’s a refund for extra I paid back on a loan amount which finished paying last month. This is a good thing, an extra £100 is always good. And taking the fact that I have one less payment going out a month makes it a very good thing.
Not sure on holidays for the rest of the year. I’ve a lot of time to take off and I don’t know what to do with it. I haven’t got the money to spare to do anything major. I have 5 days in Dublin at the end of September and if I even take another week there by the end of the year I have another week I have to take before January 1st and another week I can take or carry over and take before the end of March. I don’t know. Some of it will depend on work commitments, the next few months are going to be tight on a lot of things, although there might be a little travel which I can tack some time onto.
I’m meeting Pat and Rich and maybe Trev and John later this afternoon. There isn’t really anything on in the cinema that we all want to see so Pat suggested we just meet up and girl watch. I fully support this plan so we’ll have a few beers and hang out I guess. Another nice dinner would be good but perhaps a bit of a luxury again.
I’ll of course swing by the comic book shop on my way and I really do want to go and buy a die. It’s silly I know but I want to do it, so I will.
Our new boss starts on Monday morning, it should be interesting. We have of course been speculating like mad and now we get to meet him and find out what he’s like. I think it is a good thing, I think it is a very good thing but there is a massive learning curve and we are starting to hit the hurdles in the project so it could be a testing time for all of us. Not that it isn’t already of course.
Iain and I went for pizza for lunch yesterday. It was the first time in a couple of weeks we went out for lunch and it was good. Enjoyed it a lot and the pizza was good too.
I sometimes write in here maybe a sentence, maybe a lot more and realised that I don’t actually want to say that. It’s normally when I decided to talk about things I usually don’t talk about. I’ll write something thinking; yes I’ll go ahead and talk about it, I don’t care what people think, that’s just the way it is. Then I realise that in fact I don’t care what they think, I care what I think and I don’t want to talk about it. It’s a little strange, those of you who are late night people or very early morning people will have gotten a whole entry along those lines last night. One thing I noted in it was that the chances were I’d delete it in the morning and the chances were right. *shrug* Welcome to my world.
I was taking the piss out of someone the other night who was working late because a certain person asked him to do some work for them. It didn’t have to be done that night but it would help if it did. A few of us were off to the pub and trying to get him to come along and leave the work till the morning. He pointed out there were a few people in the company who I would do the same for. I said no, there wasn’t. I lied. There are a few only a couple for the same reasons but a few for other reasons too. This I think is a good thing in particular in the latter cases. To be able to inspire people to go and do some work for you and drop everything else just because they think you are a good person? Man that’s cool.
Oh one of the topics covered last night was something I’ve mentioned here recently autonomy and confidence. The general consensus was give us the first and the second will come naturally. Sometimes it’s being thrown in the deep end and having to swim, other times it’s just pointing out subtly or not that you can do it, now go and do it. Every now and again I come off a conference call thinking that was damn good and I sat (or paced) there talking, knowing what I’m talking about and making decisions and making good decisions. These days it’s about 10 conference calls a week, last week was closer to 20 with most of them being well over an hour and it was a couple of them that I came off thinking that. This is a good thing I think, and you know what really helps sometimes, being the only person there representing London. Kinda means you have to do the job and know what you are talking about.
It’s still cold and it’s a nice cold. It’s not quite wrap up warm yet and no need for a coat but cold enough to appreciate a warm bed and a nice walk.
So all in all not shaping up to be a hugely quiet weekend as I thought I wanted last night. Tomorrow shall be lie around and do nothing all day I think, today I will be in town doing some shopping and spending time with friends. That was a very strange thing to type, I don’t know why.
For now a shower and a quick bite to eat sound like a plan and then off onto a bus. And on that note, off I go.
