Thankyou to the fat little man on the rusty racing bike who must have puffed and wheezed his self down the road in an effort to overtake me as dangerously as possible, and having completed said act of bravado, slowed to an asthmatic crawl. Confronted by traffic (which I stayed in line with), he first wobbled into oncoming traffic, and then onto the footpath – causing families to take avoiding action.
A higher power than myself has dictated that I must move locations in the office once more – and I find myself sat back at the desk I had early last year. I’m well on my way towards having worked in every office of the entire building over the last nine (!?) years.
For the past two days I have commuted towards the southern reaches of London to teach a group of business people how to use a technology product I happen to know more than most about. It has been my first experience of teaching a group, and somewhat unnerving. I am not a teacher.
While watching our children talk to their grandparents in Cornwall on Skype this evening, I got the first real sense so far that Christmas is coming. Lunatic levels of excitement were in evidence (followed by all manner of threats at bedtime to bring them back down to earth again).
This year I have been absent from [...]
Waiting in Birmingham Station to travel back towards home – and a night and day of coding. Not very happy that my planned morning Christmas shopping is now going to be spent hunched over my work laptop.
It’s Monday evening, and I’m in the Hilton again (I wonder if Paris Hilton’s boyfriend says that? Does she have boyfriends for longer than a week?)
Work is going well. It’s one of the only things I have control over, meaning I can force what I am doing to succeed. Anybody who knows the hours I [...]
I’m finally home this evening after four days away with work. After ringing the doorbell, I heard excited shouts from two little girls who had been allowed to stay up late to see me. Our youngest ran back into the house on-sight shouting “Daddys home!”, except of course there was nobody to hear her. Perhaps [...]
I’m starting to get the hang of this – not living in a hotel – I’m starting to get the hang of expecting failure. Don’t get me wrong – this hotel room is nice, but there are little things that could so easily have been right. It’s a big Hilton, if that means anything.
Let’s start [...]
After sitting down at my desk to begin work this morning, I couldn’t help thinking about the scene in Office Space;
"It looks like you’ve been missing a lot of work"
"I wouldn’t say I’ve been missing it…"
Of course the crazy thing is I am here – I always turn up. Rain or shine. I often think [...]
© Cheese and Beans. He has terrible tusks, and terrible claws, and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws.
