Today was long and tough. Meetings from 3 till 6 didn’t turn out as planned. The first was a 90 minute conference call. I dialled in for the first hour and actually got some resolution but not as much as I need. Certainly didn’t get any help from the people I needed it from. Managed to get it from another source and got a little done while on the call which was good. Dropped off that and jumped onto a training session. It was really good, the speaker was excellent, the presentation method whereby we could all see his desktop on our screens was excellent and the product sounds good. So that was good. This was due to last 90 minutes but was done in 60. So instead of heading to my last meeting 30 minutes late I made the entire thing…much to my regret. There was nothing of relevance to me or my team at all and it was time I much needed to get some work done.
It ran a little over time so instead of running for the train to get home, I went for a leisurely pint with Andy in the pub on the way to the station before getting the next train and coming home. It was good. It’s a nice pub there, the staff are friendly and the beer is good. The pool table is a bit shit but that’s never stopped us before. So had the one and chat and went to get the train.
Home just after seven and mucked around online for a while before having a game of blood bowl. Loosing by 2 wasn’t too bad for a first time team.
For just a second, this Metafilter posting got me.
It’s one of the guys on my team’s birthday on Saturday so we are heading off into town for some drinks to celebrate. There are a few people coming over from Dublin and we are meeting up and going into town. The plan for the moment is Waxy’s which I have not been in for a while and then move onwards from there at some stage. It should be good night. Other than that, I have no plans. I have lots of movies to sit down and watch so I want to do that but they are all Japanese and it takes that little extra to sit down and watch something subtitled.
Tomorrow is Friday and should be quiet enough on all fronts, this is I think a good thing. I have no doubt there will be some socialising in the evening, briefly at the least and then well, who knows. Hopefully no fights or stupidity. I’m looking forward to getting to bed and being able to sleep in for the next morning.
I cleared out one of my mailboxes earlier. Just under 4000 mails down to about 300, or 30mb to about 4mb. This is a good thing, it makes checking my web mail so much easier. As I don’t have an email client at home it was something which was badly in need of doing. One of my favourite mail client features is to leave the mail on server. This lets me use a client in work to just read stuff but still have the mail on my real machine (when I had one). But at lunch today I used the joy of delete from server when removed from trash to kill off most listservs and other stuff which I didn’t really want or need to keep.
The preview for season 3 of 24 looked fun in a boring way. I’m expecting much more fun from the Jack Bauer Hour of Power but I’m also expecting it to be not so good. Then again the second season was excellent and proved me wrong so we shall see.
Having just run a spell check and corrected ‘dialed’ to ‘dialled’, I feel I should quit my job immediately.
Silence is easy.