I'm really enjoying myself at work now. I've been there a month and I took an afternoon's worth of calls on Friday. I feel that I am getting there with the knowledge, and the hardest thing now is figuring out quickly enough what machines are what, and what machines have what capabilities. Not made easy by calling at least 3 differing machines ( Read more... )

I was in Worksop doing a video job and after the job I went round the corner, out of sight of the store, and was reviewing the tape. I found that it was an awful recording (1st of the day, not 100% used to it) and had to go back in using the ol' backup scenario ( Read more... )

( A daily list, not a big one )

3 succeeded, one I think I forgot to plug the 'AV In' cable in. Think I might have got cocky and not checked properly. In future I will ensure that I have a picture before starting recording. D'oh. I got 5 minutes of black, so that needs redoing tomorrow or Wednesday, along with the other 10 shops that I've got. At least a lot of them are in ( Read more... )

Today I have updated my master list. There's a few problemmatic areas, mainly revolving around Sky, Force9 and BT ( Read more... )

I've been offered video MS training. This is fabulous news because video work is paid very nicely indeed. Not sure about the equipment but I'm assuming so far that the equipment will be provided by the company, as they're a decent bunch ( Read more... )

I'm 35 pound up on the day. 15 staked. 50 back, plus i get the stake and fee back from NOP :) So it's a good day so far!

Sent off 3 emails/covering letters to agencies along with CVs, applied for a further 2 jobs through CWJobs and another one off another site whose name I can't remember. These are all for jobs in the North West - Warrington, Cheshire, Manchester. It's all good, right ( Read more... )

Goal 1: On target. Mostly. Today I couldn't push the water down, so I only did 1 litre. Went shopping and came home with a trolley full of healthy food - not a single naughty thing. What a feat of will it was to walk past the 2-for-£5 GReen and Black's ice cream ( Read more... )

1. Knackered.
   
2. James Blunt at the Manchester Apollo brilliant. Real crowd pleasing set.
   
3. Jason Mraz (support act) awesome. Have bought CD and am currently enjoying much.
   
4. Tonight: Sheffield Walkabout for dinner at 7, cinema to see Munich (don't do it - long and tedious are the only two words that spring to mind), Doncaster Walkabout at midnight (with ( Read more... )