Posted: Wed 11 October, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Getting Organised, Health, Travel, Work-related |
Oh yeah, that was one thing – breaking in new boots.
A few weeks back, I bought some new Cat boots to supplement the use of my normal steel-toecapped things. Up ’til now I’d worn them short-term (i.e. for a couple of hours at a time) on a few occasions, but this week has been the first week of constant wear. I chose this week as I emphatically wasn’t going to be walking serious distances, as the hotel I’m using is effectively just round the corner from the office. But of course there’s still the entire “walking from the station to the office” thing, and I’ve still done a fair amount of walking in them.
And of course they’re not properly broken in yet. So even with doing less walking than usual, the sodding things have rubbed against my heels, and I’ve a (broken) blister about the size of a 50p piece. Which is, needless to say, quite sore.
So yesterday I ended up buying some blister plasters (just to stop the sodding thing getting rubbed all the time) and a couple of pairs of hefty thick socks. And today my feet feel much better, and hopefully the blister will now start to heal up a bit.
And I need to buy a new pair of steel-toecap ones before long too…
Posted: Tue 10 October, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Travel, Work-related |
Well, I can honestly say I’m knackered. Somehow the company had managed to rent a fucking huge Toyota Land Cruiser – no idea why, we were expecting a simple estate! And it’s so not the type of vehicle anyone in the group would’ve chosen to drive if they’d been given the choice.
Still, it made the drive fun – and dear God it needed to be – and we made it with no real hassle at all. Some heavy traffic, but nothing that caused us to stop at all – not bad when a large portion of the journey was on the Orbital Car Park (AKA the M25)
The journey back was even better, and we made it in just over three hours, so not bad at all. But of course I’m now utterly knackered.
As for the meeting, it was productive, but in a worrying way, as it ably illustrated just how little the company knew about the CMS project we’re involved in, and how much more we knew about it all than they did. Just a little bit worrying…
Posted: Tue 10 October, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: D4D™, Travel |
I’m away from the office (and indeed any form of useful connectivity) all day today, so don’t expect any more updates now.
I’m sure I’ll write more tonight when I get back to the land of the living. ‘Til then, though, D4D™ will go quiet.
Seeya tomorrow.
Posted: Mon 9 October, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Thoughts, Travel, Weirdness |
I’m sure I’ve written about this before, but I have to confess that I still find it amusing when people get on entirely the wrong train.
This morning it happened to two people in the same carriage as me. The service was a non-stop train from Kings Cross to Cambridge. It said so on the platform boards that list all the trains, times, platforms and destinations. It said so on the individual platform displays that tell you where the train currently at the platform is due to go, and when. It said so on the tannoy system on the train, before the doors closed and it pulled off (giving idiots time to get off the train first)
But no, still these two numpties had got on the wrong train. One of them wasn’t even going anywhere near Cambridge. The other thought it was a stopping service.
Really, how dim do you have to be to make that kind of mistake?
Posted: Mon 9 October, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Travel, Work-related |
Sometimes I’m just too organised. This week has turned out to be a case in point. Because of the travelling I’m doing, I order my train tickets online, and book accommodation in advance too. To me it just makes sense to be organised on that kind of thing, and it keeps me on top of things.
However, this week we’ve got a meeting down in Poole, with the company that’re supplying the Content Management System for the company. And if I’d been less organised, I’d have been able to work at home on the Monday, travel to Poole from Bracknell on the Tuesday, and not have to be up in Cambridge ’til Wednesday morning. But of course I’d been organised, so I’d got the train tickets booked in advance, and got the hotel for the week sorted too.
Which means that this week I’ll be travelling to Cambridge on Monday, then going with work colleagues down to Poole for the day, then back, and then back to normal work on Wednesday. In short, a fair amount of mileage. I suppose it works out about the same mileage whatever way I do it, but this way will just require all the miles to be in larger dollops.
Should be fun, all the same.
Posted: Sat 7 October, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Animals, Domestic, Travel |
Oh yeah, another thing about coming back at weekends – Hound thinks it means I have to make up four days of playing with her.
I keep on getting nagged to go outside and throw tennis balls for her. Strangely, while I’m away, apparently she doesn’t get Herself to throw balls at all. That’s my job, according to Hound.
Posted: Sat 7 October, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Geeky, Getting Organised, Travel, Weirdness |
One of the geekier things that’s currently good about coming home is the ability to get back to a wireless network. (Obviously there’s a lot of other good things about coming home from the week at work, but I’m on a geeky thought process here)
It’s been very odd over the last couple of weeks, not being available online after work, and not having the connectivity I’m used to. (God, this is sounding more pathetic by the minute, isn’t it?) Admittedly not entirely a bad thing, as it’s given me the opportunity to catch up on some letter writing and so on, but all the same, very odd to not be able to mooch about online the way I’m used to.
Still, that’ll change from here, as I’m getting somewhere very posh in the coming week, and then the B&B I’ll be staying in will be letting me use their network, so all’s going to be cool on that score.
It just means I’ll need to be slightly more disciplined, and still keep up with writing letters etc. (and all the other writing projects I’m thinking about) as well as working on the websites and so on.