“I love reading the blogs of my friends on the other side of the world. It’s one of the few ways I can see what you’re up to.”
I don’t recall where I read it, I’m not even sure who said it (though I strongly suspect it may have Ashyena on Bytey’s blog), but since Lost moved up North, and Ash and Minime went back to school, and everything started happening to everybody, it’s a quote I’ve been thinking quite a lot about, mostly in terms of ‘Are people wondering what I’m getting up to?’. When I was younger, and I’d just started uni, I was keen to share with my old friends what I was up to, so every week I’d send out a mass e-mail telling people what I’d been up to. No one ever seemed interested. Now I’m older people pop into work, or call me up and ask how I’ve been, but I’ve not got the foggiest what I’ve been doing since I last spoke to them and so it just turns into ‘Okay I guess, just work, how about you?’ even though I might have been up to plenty of cool stuff.
To me, this blog seems the best way to answer that question. So, without further ado: a brief round up of my week.
Mostly I’ve been pretty tired. The new drugs I’m on have an unfortunate side effect of making my legs really twitchy at night, meaning I have trouble sleeping. I’ve spent most nights this week on the sofa, because I didn’t want to keep Dark awake.
Some interesting stuff has been happening at work. We’ve got new plastic fittings for better display of POS graphics, and a couple of new admin procedures. Also, Freespirit has been taken over by a group of business consultants to try and make it a profitable company again. But it means for the duration we can’t swap staff, so no more having to open for them, or work over there 
However, the sudden upheaval does mean that my disciplinary hearing did not get done by Nicky. And Doreen was off sick the Tuesday so it didn’t get done then. And Jenny swore blind she would arrange for it to get done by the end of the week. But it’s now next week and I still haven’t had it… I don’t know whether to feel pissed off or glad that I’ve been shunted to the bottom of the list. While I don’t like having the uncertainty hovering over my head, I don’t really mind the fact it’s essentially being forgotten about. It also kinda proves my point about how easy important things are to forget, which is basically what the disciplinary is about.
But it’s not all been work (just mostly 
) Wednesday was my day off, and I spent it catching up on sleep and then beginning my preparatory organisation for Nanowrimo this year. Most of that focused on making a survey, with a few write-ins being pencilled into the calendar, browsing the ML forums and wiki, and introducing myself to the members of surrounding regions who don’t have MLs this year.
On various evenings this week as well I’ve been organising the GRN staff to get to Insomnia 41, which is much harder than it sounds, especially as no one, including me, seems to have a clear idea of what we want or what should happen. All I know is, I think we need our own space, far away from any of the other press. Oh, and I managed to break the G3 Show’s website >.<
Saturday, my second day off this week, again, I slept in, trying to catch up on sleep. Dark and I had planned on seeing Scott Pilgrim Vs the World, but there weren’t any matinee showings and I knew he’s been too tired after his driving lesson. He was also too tired for my suggestion of going for a walk in the four hours between our shopping arriving and his lesson, so instead I hacked around on Google’s AppInventor thingy. It was pretty fun, and mostly intuitive. My main problem is thinking in straight lines. But still, I managed to make a ‘hello world’ app, a word counter, and the beginnings of a ‘days since’ type app. It was cool to be able to get results so quickly from only having messed around with it for a short time. I think I spent 6 hours on it in total, in two three hour bursts.
And then this morning, Sunday, I had a bit of a shock. I woke up to a pile of things I’d been forgetting out to do with Nano and GRN goes to i41. However, getting down to it after word wasn’t too much a problem and now I am less panicky.
One of those things including checking on my survey. I’ve been pleasantly surprised to find at least two of the results have (essentially) said ‘Dru is awesome!’ in the ‘Anything else?’ field. Oh the warm fuzzies that gave me
So yeah, that’s been my weekly round up of what’s been happening down in Dorset. 
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