A long week

I’m so glad it is Friday night, the week has been hectic to say the least and I am looking forward to having a little rest over the weekend. I do have a few things that need doing, some of them must wait until various customer call centres are closed on Sunday, but this weekend shall be mainly relaxing and catching up on some well needed sleep.

An apology to commuters at Charing Cross tube station

I am not a daily commuter into London. In fact I try to limit my visits to one or two per week maximum. However even with the relative infrequency of my visits compared to other commuters, I am still aware of the basic rules of commuting (stay out of peoples way, have your ticket ready for the tube barrier in plenty of time etc).

So, quite why after many years of successfully commuting, I tried more than once to exit Charing Cross station yesterday using a pay and display car park ticket, rather than my actual ticket, I do not know.

I am deeply sorry for the inadvertant pile up I caused. Many times myself have I muttered under my breath as someone came to a complete halt at the barrier causing chaos. Yesterday I felt what it was like to be on the receiving end and it was not nice.

Of course one could look at that as an excuse to be slightly more polite to people who do the same in the future, but being honest I’ll still mutter, roll my eyes and curse them for delaying me.

After all I know what I like and I like what I know and I do not do change. I’m happily set in my ways.

The vicious circle of meetings

I have realised that when you are very busy, it is a bad idea to have meetings that result in you needing to do more work. I appear to have creating a vicious circle that is determined to swallow me whole.

That is all today. I have action points to act upon

Long awaited gadget

In late August Samsung announced that they were launching the X360 laptop. Around the same time, I was starting to think it was time to replace my long serving (two years old with me is about 6 years for normal people) Dell, for something a little quicker along with an improved battery life.

Over a month later I was able to place a pre order for one and opted for the 3GB ram, 128GB SSD drive model. I waited somewhat impatiently for the email to say it had shipped. Alas, no email came and every time I called the estimated shipping date had slipped another week. It was starting to seem that this supposed laptop was so good it actually didn’t exist.

Well shitty link tried to deliver the laptop last Friday and I was finally able to get my hands on it today. The time between ordering the laptop and it being delivered was such that I had actually moved my office and so the courier had tried to deliver it to a now vacant office!

I went to the deopt today, picked up the package and then waited patiently for the entire train journey home before opening everything up.

I am still loading various bits of software onto it, but all I can say so far is ‘wow’.

A more thorough review shall follow in due course, once I’ve loaded the 3GB+ of email I have onto it.

When the stars go blue

Not much to talk about today, a wasted trip into London (the person I was supposed to be meeting forgot that we were) and no news on my grandad as of yet. I’m going up on Thursday to see him.

I was struck this evening though by the very striking star scape in the sky, the stars are indeed shining brightly and seemed to have a very blue hue to them. It helped that I was stood in the middle of a large field away from streetlights too, somewhere with me was the dog although she seemed more interested in chasing rabbits than looking at the stars.