Slept a whole lot better last night which was good. I did finally finish Woken Furies just before midnight. I enjoyed it. Not as much as the other Kovacs books but it’s good fun. Not sure on the ending, I was liking it quite a bit but then…
I was thinking about HST some more last night. I’ve have been a lot this week and I’m not quite sure why. His death really got to me and it really shouldn’t have. I read and liked his books a whole lot but I’m a couple of generations past the “counterculture” that he inspired and was associated with. I’m not even sure they had a big impact on me. I have 5 or 6 of them but I never got around to picking up the rest, so why is it hitting me so?
Work is interesting. There still isn’t much going on, but what little that is going on is interesting. It looks like one of my projects might actually ramp up and take the single step forward that it really needs. That would be good news and so I’m pushing for it a lot but there seems to only be so much I can do.
Personalities along the same line are interesting. I was writing an email yesterday and I was making a suggestion that I knew was going to go down like a lead balloon in one of the groups. Not only that but I knew exactly what the line from that group was going to be (and I mean the words in reply) so I included it and suggested around it. Of course no-one has replied to it yet but a couple of people liked the email so that’s good. It’s good sometimes to have worked with people for so long to have that kind of familiarity. Other times it’s just challenging.
The company is throwing a party in a few weeks. We are 10 years old this year and the party is for anyone who has been working here for 5 or more years. That, rather scarily, includes me. It sounds like the stops have been pulled out and it’s going to be a good night. It’s also going to be the first party in a good couple of years where I should know everyone there. That will make a nice change. 3 of 6 on my team make the cut. Another two would but they left and came back so they don’t seem to count. It’s a little recognition a long time coming
Something has changed, I don’t know what. Yesterday was a little different from the normal day. I’m surprised by it and it’s not for the worse that much I’m sure of. I just don’t know where it came from and I don’t know where it is going.