On-Site
Posted: Tue 7 July, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Driving, Own Business, Travel, Web Development, Work-related | Leave a comment »Today, I’m working in the office of a new client down in London. Thankfully, once this day’s done, I’ll be able to primarily work from home, which means I won’t have to do the drive down to London on a daily basis or anything.
It should be a good day, though – there’s a lot to be done for this project all told, but I’m glad it won’t involve shedloads of commuting.
Mind you, next Tuesday I’ve also got to drive down to Brighton for a meeting with another potential new client. Madness – although it should be fun, even if I’ll be coming back looking like a stunned primate.
Bugger
Posted: Tue 30 June, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: @Media2009, Geeky, Getting Organised, Memory, Own Business, Work-related | 1 Comment »There are times where I’m a real spanner – and it looks like last week was one of those times.
You see, ages back I booked myself for the @Media conference in London. And then forgot about it completely.
And it turns out it was last week – the Thursday and Friday, to be precise. Which means that last week would’ve been made infinitely more complex than it was, what with the Cambridge interview and the entire travelling to see AC/DC – but it’s still a bummer.
It’s weird too, in that I haven’t heard anything about it this year – nothing I’ve noticed on Twitter or Facebook, and none of the developers and techies I know having gone to it. Compared to a couple of years ago, when I knew loads of people who went, that just seems pretty odd.
It’s a pain to have paid for the ticket and not gone – but well, my company had paid for the ticket rather than me personally (it’s a semantic point in many ways, I know) so it could be worse.
Interviewage
Posted: Thu 25 June, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Work-related | Leave a comment »Well, all seemed to go pretty well with the interview stuff today, too.
At least, that’s the feedback I’ve already had from the agency, anyway.
So fingers crossed, change may be afoot. Time will tell, anyway.
Back on the road
Posted: Wed 24 June, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Driving, Work-related | Leave a comment »So, tomorrow I’ve got an interview in Cambridge for a new job.
It’s one that looks pretty interesting – well, the company looks interesting, I’ve no idea whether the job will be or not, as I haven’t actually seen a job description yet. The company is (apparently, according to the agency) on a “talent hunt”, and my name and CV have come up.
So it’s one of those things where I don’t really know what to expect at all, but it should be fun all the same. I guess it helps that I’ve already worked for one of their local competitors, though…
Driving Times
Posted: Sat 20 June, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Animals, Domestic, Driving, Own Business, Work-related | Leave a comment »Yesterday I was out all day – I left at 8.30, and came back at 6.30pm, so out for ten hours, of which about six were spent driving.
All told, it involved travelling down to London to see a new potential client, then across to Windsor to pick up some bits from Hound’s vet, a quick stop-off in Slough, and then back round the M25 to get home.
In my normal style, the M25 was utterly rigid – it was bad enough that even the radio travel news people were commenting it was abnormally stuffed all round the western side. It took half an hour just to do the bit between the M4 and the M40, and the rest wasn’t much better, ’til we got (as usual) to the M1, at which point it all clears up for some fuckforsaken reason.
Still, as days goes it was OK, it looks likely I’ve got the work, it means Hound is now sorted for her Happy Pills for another three months, so that’s cool.
But by the time I got home, my brain was just roadkill, which is why I didn’t write this post last night.
Working From Home – Downside
Posted: Wed 20 May, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Animals, Domestic, Own Business, Work-related | 2 Comments »One of the downsides of working from home at the moment is things like this…
Problem exists between keyboard and computer
This is standard practice – although at least this time he wasn’t sleeping on the keyboard itself
Accounting and Business
Posted: Tue 21 April, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Charm School, Cynicism, Domestic, Own Business, Work-related | 1 Comment »I forgot to mention before, but following on from the farce last month with my fuckstick accountant going bankrupt I’ve now sorted things out with a new one.
As it happens, it’s the accountant who has picked up a lot of the business from the fuckstick one (although not the premises, branding or debts) so the likelihood of him disappearing now is even less likely.
It’s not been an easy process – it’s involved seeing two more accountants, and then figuring out costs, benefits etc. but I’m generally pretty happy with the results, and feel a bit more reassured this time round.
Just for additional fun, it looks like some of the information given to me by the previous fuck-knuckle has turned out to be – well, if not wrong then decidedly shaky. Never a good thing when it comes to trying to avoid the indelicate attentions of HMRC…
Still, at least it’s another thing sorted out (even though I do still have to sign some papers etc. to get it finalised) and off the list.