I'm now back from my 5 week ski trip. As part of my freedom and milestone birthday, I am glad I was able to realise at least in part my desire to spend an extended period of time in the French Alps ( Read more... )

• 4x on the bike this week and last, 145 miles
  
• Credit card paid off, joint account paid off
  
• Treated myself to a bit of extravagant shopping, mostly nice stuff for the shower, paid in cash
  
• Been feeling detached this week from the ex, no strong feelings good or bad towards her
  
• Have a few things in the diary: craft beer festival tomorrow, new restaurant ( Read more... )

At the end of the summer, the cross-function team that all worked on our very large and successful summer marketing campaign all got reward vouchers. It was unexpected and appreciated. One of the places that takes them is a large chain of CD stores. Obviously this chain is in serious financial trouble, but the big store on Oxford Street has a good ( Read more... )

1. Reacting purely on emotion is almost always counter productive. Count to ten, or better yet, leave the email and come back to it at the end of the day. Bet you don't press send. If you think to yourself, "I wonder if I should really say this," you probably shouldn't ( Read more... )

Today was my first experience being on call when we're in full crisis mode. Interesting to say the least. Got good feedback from my team mates as well as our director on how I handled things so that's good. I'm wiped out though.

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People coming in to pitch for my job, again. Talking shite. Once again find myself needing to justify my role and what we do, and why our way is better. Which I will. Because we are better. That's the fact, aside from the absurdity of handing over control over the biggest portion of our business to a third party ( Read more... )

Haven't done a weekend post in a while. Been a good one ( Read more... )

It is good to be in the office earlier every day, but I do miss breakfast with my wife every morning. We used to sit down together and have our tea and toast before heading out for the day. Now with both of us working longer hours and her going gluten free, it is more likely to be a smoothie or bowl of yogurt standing in the kitchen as she dries ( Read more... )

We hosted a rather excellent dinner party on Saturday, the memory of which has been almost completely overshadowed by what I believe to be a completely unrelated incident of food poisoning. Two days off work in an important week and I'm now very behind. The only small.consolation is losing a few pounds in the process ( Read more... )

Seems we've turned a corner with the light. Maybe it's just decent weather, but I can now tell the sun is up bit longer in the mornings and afternoons ( Read more... )