A somewhat grumpy hedjog
Okay, I have recovered pretty much from my travels and am beginning to get matters moving, sort of, once more...
but let me tell you, the peeves are a bit put out at the following:
Yesterday, I went to the gym, and the latest disappearances were the elliptical machine and the treadmill, i.e. the things I use (which were still there last week). At least, for those of us who wish to do cardio things rather than lift stuff (or climb ropes, which seems to be A Recent Addition), there are still a couple of bikes.
While I was away I was solicited for a contribution to a project which a) it was gratifying to be asked to contribute to (lo, I am still relevant) and b) the pay was somewhat, if only slightly, more munificent than one is used to. The downside was that the deadline is very tight. So on my return I have been in touch, and the person who was the lead had left and got a new job and I have not heard from the replacement person yet about various rather essential things needed before I can actually start working on this thing. Bah.
I have still, I realised today, not yet been paid for a talk I gave 2 months ago and which was Far More Faff than it seemed like it would be going in.
Our home landline is not letting us know of incoming calls. After some time wrestling with the manual, the frankly not very intuitive handset menu, etc, and making sure that the ringtone was set at a reasonable volume and we had not inadvertently turned Do Not Disturb on, and none of all this solving the problem, turned to The Internet and found that this is not a problem unique to our make of handset and may, in fact, be All British Telecom's Fault. However, communication with BT has not been without its problems and we have not yet resolved all this.
However, I did get several of the things I had had on my To Do list for today To Done, got a very amiable and cooperative response to an email that, after I had sent it, I came across something that made me think it might not get an amiable response, etc etc. This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2939049.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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