Half a day's work yesterday, making me feel much more human, followed by an evening visit to the opening of the summer show of this year's work a London Metropolitan University, where I did my restoration degree a couple of years ago, with another of my old class. One of the nicer tutors had sent invitations to all of my year, and there were a lot ( Read more... )

I meant to post about my time in Paris yesterday, but couldn’t seem to login to LJ. A better post (with fuzzy pictures) will follow today. Yesterday was a bit of a of bewildered day all round. I had (I thought) a week’s work to look forward to, so stumbled out of bed and off to the bus-stop at 7.30. I reached the front door before realising I ( Read more... )

Half a day's work today and I managed to get in on time, despite usually being still asleep at 9 am. Only a little job, but there is the possibility of something a bit bigger in the future. I spent a pleasant morning hitting bits of iron railing with a little hammer, and doing Dart Vader impressions in the air-filter mask I have to wear when I ( Read more... )

I must be feeling unusually grumpy today. Listening to the BBC/British Museum, History of the World in in 100 Objects, which dealt with a bit of the Elgin Marbles, all I could think was what a horrible shower the ancient Athenians sounded like, with their nationalism, showing-off and bullying of other nations. Perhaps, I thought it was a pity ( Read more... )

Another day’s work this Monday, mostly setting samples in resin and labelling sample sites. I was slightly startled to see that the workshop had been cleaned up over the weekend. Normally, this room is a chaos of paint-tins, colour samples on bits of cardboard, buckets and manky paint brushes, rather like my bedroom, but with rather fewer piles ( Read more... )

Finished my first full week of work in months, and now I'm as tired as I usually am after a full week of doing nothing. This particular job seems to have a slight curse on it, including missing buses, broken-down cars, congealing resin, broken equipment, train strikes and minor injuries, all conspiring to screw things up. As for me, I was so ( Read more... )

Feeling a good deal better since Monday, mainly because I've started to do things, rather than sit here numbly playing solitaire ( Read more... )

No work today, so I spent most of the time beavering away at the secondary online job. Then I got a call this afternoon to say that the secondary job will stop after the next two weeks. Pooh. I had expected this for some time, but it was still a nasty surprise, especially as the other job seems to be thinning out too. Oh dear. Back to the sock ( Read more... )

In the end, yesterday's work turned out rather well. I got a lot done (mixing paint, cutting boards, microscope stuff), and we seem to be reasonably close to getting off the report for Friday's deadline. Mind you, another long week has left me really knackered, since I have the other job (a nominal 3 days a week, actually more like two) as well ( Read more... )

Arrgh! I got into work quite easily yesterday, to find that the shutter was down on the yard and no-one was about (the office, workshop and lab are all in a little yard that used to be a tram depot, closed off from the street by a metal shutter). My phone had died, so I couldn't get any of the urgent messages I thought I'd been left, and by half ( Read more... )