So, I thought I could get 100% without doing the chocobo ranch sidequest. I was wrong. It's annoying. Maybe not quite so bad as breeding chocobos but still 'busy work'. But, having got this far, especially having conquered the Gunner's Gauntlet, I want my perfect ending, damn it! So, my revised plan is to chip away at FFX-2 as a 'background' task ( Read more... )

I probably wouldn't define myself as 100% fit but I'm definitely 90%+ and I have shit to do today, so I'm going to go and do it.

I also have that job application to work on - not sure if I'll get much done today but I'll try.

And the sun is shining, which is always a good way to start the day.

I booked last Thursday and Tuesday of this week off so that I had 6 days in total to spend as I chose. Then we decided to decorate the living room to cover up the bare patches left by the new radiators and I thought, 'Well, that's good. I now have 6 whole days to tackle this project in. If we can get started on Thursday, we should be finished by ( Read more... )

Drawing technical architecture diagrams hurts my head. But I now understand a bit more about our technical architecture, which can only be a good thing. At least for as long as I'm here ( Read more... )

I've now officially adopted Trello.com for managing my 'to do' list. You create a little card for each task and then move it from 'to do' to 'doing' to 'done'. Well, that's how I've organised it, anyway. There was only one thing that didn't make it to the 'done' list and that's more a private project anyway ( Read more... )

So, I decided to take my own advice and go for a new job. There is something that looks interesting in another department that is basically stakeholder management, which sounds right up my street. It's weird because I am by nature an introvert. If I never had to deal with real people for the rest of my life I would be very, very happy. However, I ( Read more... )

The big news this week is that J is leaving LJMU and moving to Glasgow Uni. I'm really glad I stuck with her through the shit that she went through and I'm really happy for her that she's finally going to do a job she wants to do and is qualified for and all that... But I'm left feeling that there are lots of shiny things I want to get my hands on ( Read more... )

Still having a serious attack of 'what is the point of my job, exactly?' interspersed with 'that was quite fun although I'm not sure what good it did the universe'. *sigh* I'm not even sure that changing jobs would help because at least I can argue that working for the University is good in and of itself *double sigh ( Read more... )

Sunday, we tried our freecycle table for the first time at church. The person who is supposed to be running it with me was away - wtf? Still, we put out the few things that had been donated and they all went, so... But part of the point is to try to connect with the surrounding community, which we're not going to do unless we go outside with the ( Read more... )

Sunday I was at St Michael's. It was the anniversary of the death of 'one of their own' and his family were there who all said nice things about the way I led the service. It always amuses me that people say nice things about how well I can read somebody else's words out loud. But I suppose there are people who don't conduct services very well - ( Read more... )