Methinks that I am in need of a change at work. I don’t mean a new employer, just a new posting or project team. The sad truth is that I have been in this team for two years and I am just getting too comfortable. Simply put I am becoming de-motivated to do any work! I am now finding the work too easy and there is no sense of push or drive. I ( Read more... )

A rubbish commute this morning. I clipped a cyclist with my wing mirror this morning. I stopped and checked that he was ok (which he was), but the glass in the mirror was smashed. Hopefully Europarts around the corner will have a nice cheap replacement in stock. While I am there I will get some windscreen wiper blades too. I checked the service log ( Read more... )

Ok this is starting to irritate my brain now. As I parked up the car and walking into work, I overtook a girl in RAF uniform. I have to confess, that when behind her, I was paying lots of attention as she had a nice looking figure, a good set of legs and had her blond hair done up in a pretty tight bun. However, I thought no more of it until as I ( Read more... )

And so this week has dragged by with me being on a course. I have to confess I rather enjoyed the last 3 days of the course as there was less lecturing and more practical simulation. I don't feel that I would be ready for the exams, but I definitely came away feeling a lot more confident about how to plan and run a project using the tools available ( Read more... )

Consultants charge by the hour. This is why I am reading a drivel of a feasibility study that is 44 pages where really it could be half the length. Why in the infinite wisdom of a senior someone a couple of years back and long gone (thus I cannot publicly abuse them) did we pay money to have some expensive consultants regurgitate our own data? This ( Read more... )

Pedal POWERRRRRR! (Jeremy Clarkson style voice). And I have that cheesy 90s track stuck in my head too! Anyway, short story is that I think I set a new personal record to work. I may well have made it 15 minutes on the bike this morning. This was courtesy of my alarm clock which failed to wake me up, thus I overslept requiring some serious movement ( Read more... )

My boss had an evil grin when he walked into the office this morning. Just when I was wondering how he could possibly know that I overslept this morning as I still got in before him, he set me my first task at my new promoted grade. Oh boy, it is a stinker! It is the most difficult and most boring set of documents and wire diagrams currently going ( Read more... )

Woohoo, I passed the interview. I will soon be formally initiated into the dark art of project management. It means my promotion is now officially substantiated, I get a peanuts pay rise, I travel first class on the train, club class on the planes, I might get a formal licence and I have to put up with cranky engineers and finance managers for the ( Read more... )

And at work no less. I have a few important things to do so I can’t just take the day off sick although to be honest I felt vaguely ok this morning. I am steadily feeling worse and this sleep deprivation thing is also kicking in. Why oh bloody why can’t I sleep properly at the moment? For years I have slept like a baby and suddenly it ain’t ( Read more... )

I am a very bad boy. Knowing that my boss is working from home today I didn’t bother getting out of bed until 9.30! A quick breakfast and email check and then I was whizzing my way to work just before 11. To any that asked, I worked from home this morning, before coming into the office to get things done! ;) Oh, and I am just off to boxercise in 10 ( Read more... )