17th June 2002

It has been a strange old week for me. In the ultimate pointy boss style the CE at the office demanded I get his broadband connection working at home. It really irritates me that bosses decide that you should help sort out their home problems. I mean if I wanted help to, hang on a minute, what does he actually do all day? I don’t actually know. So Monday and Wednesday at the end of the day I had to work with his wife asking me if it was nearly ready every five minutes and two noisy kids around me. Then when I had got it working I had to show her how to use Outlook and explain that however much you whine there are some things I can’t change, or refuse to change. They definitely fall under the. Not my problem category. It still irritates me that people in any situation say phone person or company x up and say this, this and this. Surely if you know what needs to be said and how to react to what the other party says, you should be the person to make the call. Maybe it’s a case of them not wanting to look stupid, that honour is passed to me. Well thank you very much, you know what you can do with it thank you very much.

Now I have got that out of my system what else did I do during last week? I have been overdosing a little on Star Trek recently, sad I know, but hey I’m hurting no one but me. I’ve been reading the books that Erin lent me, (thank you!) and been watching the DVD series sets. I bought the second season last week; have yet to watch any though.

The World cup has continued to dominate people’s thoughts and feelings. England played out a goalless draw against Nigeria, very dull and boring. I didn’t watch that. I did however watch the second round game against Denmark, where England were three nil up at half time, and that was how it finished. England having done much better in the games where I have watched compared to those where I haven’t. If this is to continue then I should worry as England play Brazil on Friday at the early time when I will not be able to watch.

During the England game against Denmark I opened my Coke bottle and found a country printed under it. The idea is if you find a country (this is my first one and you know how much I drink!) and they win the world cup, you win prizes. My country? Paraguay who were knocked out of the world cup by Germany just hours earlier. It could only happen to me.

So all of England was happy on Saturday, or drunk and singing, is that not the same thing? And I headed out to Colchester where despite seeing Dave and Martin it was only Paul and I who actually did anything. We went to the hole in the wall and then the Playhouse. It was in the latter that once again I succumbed to drinking ‘purple’ aftershocks.

During the day on Sunday, Paul, Dave, Dean and I went to Ipswich to go to the cinema. We saw the Time Machine which I thought was an absolutely fantastic film, despite some things I would have done differently.

In the evening I played badminton and have been paying for it since with a sore shoulder, ankle, knees and backside.

The first day back at work was going great until I was given a couple of hours project to do in the space of as many minutes. Sigh.