Monday, June 13, 2005
Adventure 24: 14th June 2005
"yeah I know but it's only money...." Hi there, been fer ages since my last post, it's finally become manic from this end....
10th June 2005:
Well it finally happened. Bailout has finally handed in his notice, giving 6 weeks I think was bloody good of him. He's obviously soooo worried about him contractually having to give 3 months, but as I and others explained to him. What's the worst that could happen.
Today is a good day.... since, it's payday and even better because it's also bonus day and add to that it's Friday and you can see where I'm coming from I'm sure. I was informed last week that I'd met all but one of my objectives for the year, my 5 "My Contribution" submissions probably swung it for me. 9.6% bonus was very nicely received ;-))) and boy do I have plans for it...
According to Bailout, the roonstone cowboy and his cohorts want to take a couple of days considering his resignation, hmmm I must admit it's a little puzzling, he's leaving on day x, so what's to think about and why did they mention it to him ?
Saturday 11th June 2005: Mandy and I spent today doing some serious damage to my Bonus, least said about this the better, but I did buy a new digital camera, which seems to be seriously good, either that or my last one was really bad ;-)
In the afternoon we took the kids to Frimley Lodge, to kick a ball about and try and play tennis on their "oh so flat" playing field, lots of chasing after runaway tennis balls was therefore the order of the afternoon, usually I might add by Mandy.
Ryan and I played see how many goals I can score past a 12 year old !!! Which was obviously lots. We stayed there until about 5:30pm then we decided to try and track down a Pizza Hut for dinner.
18:00: Found a Pizza Hut, in farnborough. "Table for four ?" comes the question, for some reason I count us, and yup it's four, very odd. We sit down next door to "Single Dad and son" in front of boys five-a-side football team, with their collective supervisors sat opposite. Table manners are obviously a thing best left to other people this isn't particularly surprising judging by the number of empty Tossweiser bottles left on the "grown ups" table.
18:15: I finish inspecting and rejecting the cutlery, I don't know about anyone else but piece of cheese hanging off fork, isn't clean in my book, but maybe I'm just being pinickity !!
18:30: Oh so foreign student waitress comes to our table and takes our order, a meat feast for Ryan and me to share and two individual cheese and tomato pizza's for Jack and Mandy, one a childrens pizza the other a grown ups.
18:45: Imagine our surprise when Mandy and Jack's pizza's turn up and they look identical, size and everything. Apparently they were out of childrens pizza's so Jack's is in fact an adults, yeah right, the old we're out of the smaller cheaper pizza's excuse, unconvinced we tuck in.
Sunday 12th June 2005:
Just a small entry here. You should have seen the size of Mandy's ironing. I say Mandy's ironing coz despite my best unconvincing, "let me give you a hand with the ironing", she's still insistent on doing it all herself, she really is an angel...the type that does ironing.
Monday 13th June 2005:
Back to bleeding work....at least I have something to do this week (next week and the week after and maybe more). I've been tasked with the Architecture Blueprint, which is basically cataloging every bit of kit globally attached to our network (not PC's or laptops). So I spent most of today doing visio diagrams and sodding about with that type of stuff. I also did the agenda and booked the room for Wednesdays latest departmental meeting. All I did was mention that one of the actions for the wizard to do was organise with me a presentation schedule, somehow that meant I had to do a presentation doh ! It took me about 30 minutes to do all the slides for my presentation on the Basingstoke SAN, this should be a real breeze....
Tuesday 14th June 2005:
A quiet but fruitful day today, managed to blag about 2 hours surf time "researching for the blueprint", Corvette seems to have snagged the wizard today poor cow.
Parents evening tonight, grrr, boy do I love teachers. This should be a new experience for us both since we've never been to a "big school" parents evening. It was quite a funny site, all the teachers in the school were lined up alphabetically in the sports hall behind those desks that were too small to do your exams on when you were at school. Ryan was responsible for the teachers we got appointments for so I wasn't holding my breath. First up, ah Mr Flaherty, school drama teacher and curiously enough Ryan's stage school teacher, there were enough "excellents" to sink a battle ship, so we stayed chatting for 5 or so minutes before going to see the next teacher on the list. This was Science, "excellent, a pleasure to teach" came from the Father Christmas look a like, I mean how would you know ?? Next up PE, starting to see a pattern here ? The PE teacher was about 12 years old himself and I'm not altogether convinced he wasnt a student stand in, again all fine here "a pleasure to teach" etc etc. Next up German, so we goosestep over to Ryan's drama teacher, who it turns out really is German !!! Sacre Bleu or the German equivalent. Again apparently top student, very well behaved and has to just has to do a German GCSE. "So where next" I pipe up leaving the beaming German teacher, "no that's it" comes the surprising reply, "what about Maths, seeing as he struggles a bit with maths", "no, his teacher is off sick and the other teacher didn't have any appointments", damn that's a shame, "oh well what about English", "mmmm nope", none of his English teachers are here they're all off. Unimpressed we make our excuses and leave....
Wednesday 15th June 2005:
Not a great deal to talk about here, today consisted of a series of meetings, the first of which I arranged for 9:00am, the Architecture & Technophobes Bi-monthly meeting. I've somehow managed to get volunteered to do a presentation on the SAN. Fortunately my powerpoint presentation is ready to go. It's only Me, Brentboy, Invisi-Dave and the Wizard, Dunc the skunkmaster has cried off something to do with couldn't be arsed and Corvette is under the doctor (funny she didn't mention her boyfriend was a doctor). So we rattle through the agenda (note to self must do the minutes for that), I say rattle when I actually mean labour.
I give my presentation and it goes down fairly well, I mean there were only one or two yawns so that's a good result in my book ;-)).
I get home to discover that Ryan has had "an incident" with a cup of tea, having managed to pour it over himself. He's got a very red stomach and looks to be in quite a lot of pain.
POD is being extremely helpful, only mentioning that he absolutely nothing to do, just the once so far so good.
Bedtime brings it's own share of delights, Ryan virtually crawling up the stairs, wrapped in a blanket for safety. Jack has suddenly remembered that he can't remember any of his lines for his assembly tomorrow. Nothing like last minute nerves eh ?
Thursday 16th June 2005:
The wizard and Brentboy are out, Dave's in Portsmouth and Corvette is still off, so it's just me today. I get in about twenty to nine and leave again at about twenty past nine for Jacks assembly.
Get to Jacks school at about half past and a couple of minutes later Mandy turns up with the camcorder primed and ready to go.
The assembly is excellent, Jacks part is to play a schoolboy version of Chris Tarrant doing "who wants to be a millionaire", lots of laughter and him standing in front of the head mistress, Big G as she's known to many asking her to spell sarcophogus (I'm not sure even I spelt that correctly).
About half past ten I make it back to work, scripting to do and network mapping to sod about at (triffic).
Friday 17th June 2005
Not much happening today, at least Brentboy is in so I have someone to take my mind of things. My mobile hasn't stopped either, I have two interviews for other jobs (monday and tuesday) and a possible third yet to be determined. Then it goes again, it's ripoffline direct, my insurance company. I love these guys, they send me a insurance renewal through for £350, so I hop on to their website and do an online quote and it comes out at £328 !!! like lambs to the slaughter, I do a couple more Indirect Line quote me £325 and Eunsure quote me £210 !!! even better...my email is buzzing with "how come"'s and "why"'s, the guy on the other end of the line says he has to put me on hold and I then speak to someone else, who verifies my car and says because they're busy could someone phone me back, bizarre or what ? They phoned me...Still they can wriggle all they like, if the quote isn't significantly near to the Eunsure quote I'll be going with them I think this year. I just have to work out how to pay for it....
10th June 2005:
Well it finally happened. Bailout has finally handed in his notice, giving 6 weeks I think was bloody good of him. He's obviously soooo worried about him contractually having to give 3 months, but as I and others explained to him. What's the worst that could happen.
Today is a good day.... since, it's payday and even better because it's also bonus day and add to that it's Friday and you can see where I'm coming from I'm sure. I was informed last week that I'd met all but one of my objectives for the year, my 5 "My Contribution" submissions probably swung it for me. 9.6% bonus was very nicely received ;-))) and boy do I have plans for it...
According to Bailout, the roonstone cowboy and his cohorts want to take a couple of days considering his resignation, hmmm I must admit it's a little puzzling, he's leaving on day x, so what's to think about and why did they mention it to him ?
Saturday 11th June 2005: Mandy and I spent today doing some serious damage to my Bonus, least said about this the better, but I did buy a new digital camera, which seems to be seriously good, either that or my last one was really bad ;-)
In the afternoon we took the kids to Frimley Lodge, to kick a ball about and try and play tennis on their "oh so flat" playing field, lots of chasing after runaway tennis balls was therefore the order of the afternoon, usually I might add by Mandy.
Ryan and I played see how many goals I can score past a 12 year old !!! Which was obviously lots. We stayed there until about 5:30pm then we decided to try and track down a Pizza Hut for dinner.
18:00: Found a Pizza Hut, in farnborough. "Table for four ?" comes the question, for some reason I count us, and yup it's four, very odd. We sit down next door to "Single Dad and son" in front of boys five-a-side football team, with their collective supervisors sat opposite. Table manners are obviously a thing best left to other people this isn't particularly surprising judging by the number of empty Tossweiser bottles left on the "grown ups" table.
18:15: I finish inspecting and rejecting the cutlery, I don't know about anyone else but piece of cheese hanging off fork, isn't clean in my book, but maybe I'm just being pinickity !!
18:30: Oh so foreign student waitress comes to our table and takes our order, a meat feast for Ryan and me to share and two individual cheese and tomato pizza's for Jack and Mandy, one a childrens pizza the other a grown ups.
18:45: Imagine our surprise when Mandy and Jack's pizza's turn up and they look identical, size and everything. Apparently they were out of childrens pizza's so Jack's is in fact an adults, yeah right, the old we're out of the smaller cheaper pizza's excuse, unconvinced we tuck in.
Sunday 12th June 2005:
Just a small entry here. You should have seen the size of Mandy's ironing. I say Mandy's ironing coz despite my best unconvincing, "let me give you a hand with the ironing", she's still insistent on doing it all herself, she really is an angel...the type that does ironing.
Monday 13th June 2005:
Back to bleeding work....at least I have something to do this week (next week and the week after and maybe more). I've been tasked with the Architecture Blueprint, which is basically cataloging every bit of kit globally attached to our network (not PC's or laptops). So I spent most of today doing visio diagrams and sodding about with that type of stuff. I also did the agenda and booked the room for Wednesdays latest departmental meeting. All I did was mention that one of the actions for the wizard to do was organise with me a presentation schedule, somehow that meant I had to do a presentation doh ! It took me about 30 minutes to do all the slides for my presentation on the Basingstoke SAN, this should be a real breeze....
Tuesday 14th June 2005:
A quiet but fruitful day today, managed to blag about 2 hours surf time "researching for the blueprint", Corvette seems to have snagged the wizard today poor cow.
Parents evening tonight, grrr, boy do I love teachers. This should be a new experience for us both since we've never been to a "big school" parents evening. It was quite a funny site, all the teachers in the school were lined up alphabetically in the sports hall behind those desks that were too small to do your exams on when you were at school. Ryan was responsible for the teachers we got appointments for so I wasn't holding my breath. First up, ah Mr Flaherty, school drama teacher and curiously enough Ryan's stage school teacher, there were enough "excellents" to sink a battle ship, so we stayed chatting for 5 or so minutes before going to see the next teacher on the list. This was Science, "excellent, a pleasure to teach" came from the Father Christmas look a like, I mean how would you know ?? Next up PE, starting to see a pattern here ? The PE teacher was about 12 years old himself and I'm not altogether convinced he wasnt a student stand in, again all fine here "a pleasure to teach" etc etc. Next up German, so we goosestep over to Ryan's drama teacher, who it turns out really is German !!! Sacre Bleu or the German equivalent. Again apparently top student, very well behaved and has to just has to do a German GCSE. "So where next" I pipe up leaving the beaming German teacher, "no that's it" comes the surprising reply, "what about Maths, seeing as he struggles a bit with maths", "no, his teacher is off sick and the other teacher didn't have any appointments", damn that's a shame, "oh well what about English", "mmmm nope", none of his English teachers are here they're all off. Unimpressed we make our excuses and leave....
Wednesday 15th June 2005:
Not a great deal to talk about here, today consisted of a series of meetings, the first of which I arranged for 9:00am, the Architecture & Technophobes Bi-monthly meeting. I've somehow managed to get volunteered to do a presentation on the SAN. Fortunately my powerpoint presentation is ready to go. It's only Me, Brentboy, Invisi-Dave and the Wizard, Dunc the skunkmaster has cried off something to do with couldn't be arsed and Corvette is under the doctor (funny she didn't mention her boyfriend was a doctor). So we rattle through the agenda (note to self must do the minutes for that), I say rattle when I actually mean labour.
I give my presentation and it goes down fairly well, I mean there were only one or two yawns so that's a good result in my book ;-)).
I get home to discover that Ryan has had "an incident" with a cup of tea, having managed to pour it over himself. He's got a very red stomach and looks to be in quite a lot of pain.
POD is being extremely helpful, only mentioning that he absolutely nothing to do, just the once so far so good.
Bedtime brings it's own share of delights, Ryan virtually crawling up the stairs, wrapped in a blanket for safety. Jack has suddenly remembered that he can't remember any of his lines for his assembly tomorrow. Nothing like last minute nerves eh ?
Thursday 16th June 2005:
The wizard and Brentboy are out, Dave's in Portsmouth and Corvette is still off, so it's just me today. I get in about twenty to nine and leave again at about twenty past nine for Jacks assembly.
Get to Jacks school at about half past and a couple of minutes later Mandy turns up with the camcorder primed and ready to go.
The assembly is excellent, Jacks part is to play a schoolboy version of Chris Tarrant doing "who wants to be a millionaire", lots of laughter and him standing in front of the head mistress, Big G as she's known to many asking her to spell sarcophogus (I'm not sure even I spelt that correctly).
About half past ten I make it back to work, scripting to do and network mapping to sod about at (triffic).
Friday 17th June 2005
Not much happening today, at least Brentboy is in so I have someone to take my mind of things. My mobile hasn't stopped either, I have two interviews for other jobs (monday and tuesday) and a possible third yet to be determined. Then it goes again, it's ripoffline direct, my insurance company. I love these guys, they send me a insurance renewal through for £350, so I hop on to their website and do an online quote and it comes out at £328 !!! like lambs to the slaughter, I do a couple more Indirect Line quote me £325 and Eunsure quote me £210 !!! even better...my email is buzzing with "how come"'s and "why"'s, the guy on the other end of the line says he has to put me on hold and I then speak to someone else, who verifies my car and says because they're busy could someone phone me back, bizarre or what ? They phoned me...Still they can wriggle all they like, if the quote isn't significantly near to the Eunsure quote I'll be going with them I think this year. I just have to work out how to pay for it....
# posted by cre8 @ 4:20 PM 
