Not as badly as I thought I would be. I wasn’t looking forward to today so much, I’m taking on a lot of extra stuff for the next couple of months covering a colleague who is away. I’m already covering quite a bit of other new stuff and every now and again it feels like it’s going to overwhelm me, it never does and it’s not just all for me, there is another person doing it with me and more support than I could possibly ask for from the rest of the team which rocks.
So it didn’t start too well this morning, there was an email already mentioning that a report was a day overdue. It was of course a bank holiday here and that was fine but it didn’t help that I did not even know what was meant to be in the bloody report. It took a while on the phone to figure out where I was. I should have made sure I was copied on everything from a week ago so I knew what I had to build on. Ah well, I got it all forwarded onto me and then I was able to sort it out.
I’m a lot less stressed now than I was, I’ve spent the day working on both of these other projects and so far so good. Everything I need to do is done and done pretty well I think. I probably had no real reason to stress and indeed I probably don’t have any reason to still do so, but it never really works like that. I’m going to stress anyway, that’s just me!
At the same time, it’s nice knowing that I’ve made it through day one and it’s all gone well. OK so it’s not much but it’s meetings and calls and people and deadlines and information sharing and other such fun, it’s business as usual but most importantly, nothing went wrong and so thusly I shall continue.
The weekend was good. Friday was a couple of very quiet drinks with various people in various places. It was really nice outside and so we all sat out and chatted which was good. Saturday I wandered around for a while and picked up some comics for the first time in a while. Nothing much of any interest and I’m really going to cut back on what I’m reading. As soon as Bendis on Daredevil is over, it’s the end of singles for me.
Saturday night…well that was messy. A few of us hit The Ship for Guinness, good music and good company and all three were plentiful. Then Neil and I carried on in Crowbar just up the road. I had no cash left on me at that stage so I was using plastic…and of course there was a minimum. So a couple of rounds in there meant bourbon shots and my god did I feel it. Around 2am Neil was heading off, I had a half a bottle left and decided I would stay on to finish it. I stood up from the wall I was leaning against and the entire room spun really really badly. So I got out of there and struggled home. Sunday morning, painful…well…make that Sunday afternoon.
A couple of quiet drinks with Alex that evening which was nice as we haven’t been out for a catch-up in a while and then an earlyish night.
Monday, just general faffing around before meeting Alastair and another friend for a preview of Sin City which was excellent. I enjoyed it a whole lot, nothing quite looks like it and the visuals were every bit as good as expected. Cast were all excellent and some seemed to be having whole lots of fun with it. Over around 9, a single pint for a post-mortem and then an early night to bed…
Except that I was bored and I logged into CoH…*ding* 38. I have no idea what power I want. I think this is going to have to go to test and then perhaps a respec. I don’t want more toggles but I may be very limited in my choices.
Tonight, out to dinner after work and then it’s Wednesday already!