i'm off again. to glasgow this time. til wednesday night. shame i won't get to see any of it. i'm really looking forward to some extended desk time when i can actually get something done ( Read more... )

thankyou to everyone who's thinking of my nephew and send me their support. latest is that he'd been asleep for over 15 hours and missed the x-ray of the newly huge lump on his leg which has revealed an abcess which must be operated on ( Read more... )

course was ok, nephew had a touch-and-go night during the week (he's not making blood or being able to keep food down) after reacting badly to a transfusion, aa have closed the case on my 106 being totalled by the drunk driver as the owner of the car is ignoring them. what fantastic service. not.

i'm off to coventry tomorrow for a week for work IF my hire car turns up. the hire company says it was delivered last night but they got the house number wrong. there are no keys, there is no car - what the hell have my october-christmas-tree-loving neighbours done with it ( Read more... )

i'm so excited about finally starting a career job and still being excited by it 3 weeks later, unlike the last fixed contract one where the excitement wore off immediately to be replaced by the relief of having a wage :) i get to work on things made out of jumbo steel sections, use my 15 years of further education, and i have dr sam on my office ( Read more... )