I was right

Today did in fact… and still in fact sucks, not only did I get a totall grilling over my designs… or lack threeof the work load is in fact going to get heavier and I’m just going to get more stressed. To cap it off our servers went pop yesterday… so I fixed them… rather than calling out costly engineers, that in fact was the wrong thing to tdo you see… instead the boss would have much rather have paid a guy to come out here and push the reset button and press the yes button when asked if the computer should rebuild the failed RAID array disk.

 

And there was me thinking I was doing them a favour… Noooo... should have spent 70 her hour + travling expenses on an IT expert.

 

And finally the icing on the cake… Vincent Fox a casual aqauintance of mine and a truly great bloke (ex boyfriend to Beckies sister Kayleigh) was knocked off his motorbike today and killed. I wish his family and friends all my love at this sad time, he was taken from us far to early. Hopefully he’s found his way to the racetrack in heaven and is kicking up a storm.

 

 

 

Homework

I've got a design I need to sketch at home, simply because I ran out of time at work to do it. That and the fact that I wanted to do it the old fashioned way with pen and pencil.

Unfortunately that means I'm now sitting here... tired and grumpy with no idea what to do :-)

Bugger I hope I wake up early so I can finish it... either that or I hope my boss is in late tomorrow.

Somehow I doubt I'm gonna be that lucky. Tomorrow looks to be a bad day.

Bad Boy

Not posted in a couple of days. which is not what this blog's supposed to be
about, so this is a note to remind me that I should post more often.

Also it's a test for posting in plain txt via e-mail. Hopefully it'll solve
the formatting problems I've been having.

Also anyone that's interested the RSS feed for my blog is:

http://roamingjay.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

Seven year kissmit

Supporting band for cursed as angels (my sisters louises boyfriend pauls band) tonight is seven year kissmit. They're pretty bloody good... They have 2 cousin It lookalikes on guitar... i have the urge to grow my hair now :-)

Pace Car

On the way to work this morning i noticed a police car suddenly turn on his lights up ahead... Now it's not uncommon to see police cars on this part of the M2 so i thought some poor sods been done. However he didn't pull someone over just stayed there gradually slowing down. When he got to 30 miles an hour we'd bunched up behind him like F1 cars following a pace car. I noticed the sign on the back said "do not overtake". Then he slowed to a stop. I thought shit what's going on up ahead to stop a whole motorway... The passenger then hopped out and picked up what appeared to be a scaffold pole... He then sprinted off and picked up another... And another all with the police car (and the rest of us) following slowly behind. The debris was soon clear and we were off but it was a wierd experience seeing a totally empty motorway.

WLB

Work Life Balance… anyone that’s done a course in business management will recognise that phrase. The basic premise is that for an employee or rather a person to be happy their work life and social life must balance. IE If you spend all day working and only have enough time to sleep at night and nothing else you’ll soon have end up having a breakdown.

 

I’ve got a pretty reasonable WLB, I work a reasonable number of hours in the day, then have a few hours to do the things I want, and the entire weekends to relax and do as I please. Now I’m sure I’m pretty well off in that respect and I’m doubly sure that there’s plenty of people out there that work a “36hr day down pit with half an hour off for Christmas dinner”, but for the life of me I can’t seem to figure out where the time goes, I seem to work, go home rest, work again repeat, the weekends are usually hectic, but I seem to never get the time to just sit there and go… hmmm what now?

 

This is turning into another one of my rants… so apologies. But I’ll end on a classic saying that I think is very apt… time flys when your having fun. Or in my case… time flys when you’re not at work!

 

Thoughts of the Day

Funny how whenever you think one aspect of your life is right... another falls down flat on its face. My lifes been taking some dramatic turns lately... and no mater what happens I never seem to get the ballance right.

God I'm starting to sound emo

Less Txt

Just seen my latest phone bill… holy crud apparently I’ve sent over 1400 text messages this month! I should really cut down. I need to review my tariff so I can get a better deal, time to do some wheeler dealing with O2 me thinks. Perhaps I should wheel out the good old fashioned phrase “I’m gonna leave for a company that offers a better deal… Unless you can beat it?”

Thunder and Lightning

Well here goes my first attempt at blogging via e-mails. If this works I may update a little by this method when I can’t get my normal access.

Over the last few minutes the sky has totally opened up and we’ve been having some pretty impressive thunder and lightning. I don’t know if it’s the big kid in me, but I love thunder and lightning, especially at night… I can’t help but watch in awe as the lightning streaks across the sky. I’ve always wanted to photograph lightning, but you’ve got to be in the right place at the right time with the right setup. None of which I’ve ever had. Although I will have to check the video footage from Germany as I may have accidentally filmed some, that is when I eventually get around to downloading it!

P.S. Gotta remember to delete the auto signature before I post J

P.P.S. Added the photo from my drive home... black cloud!

Last cigarette indoors

No smoking laws come into effect at 6am so we're all having one... Even the non smokers... to signal the end of an era.