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Last week, I had to spend a couple of days in Aberdeen showcasing a new piece of software to a customer. The quickest way to get there was obviously to fly, and although I wanted to avoid them, Easyjet were about a hundred pounds cheaper than the others.
Aberdeen went fine. There weren’t too many problems [...]

I’ve been a pillar of hate this week, snapping at anybody who asks me a question, uncommunicative and surly. Frankly, it’s because I care too much, and the load that I bear on my shoulders occasionally weighs me down.
“You should try blogging,” suggests my manager.
I riposte that I’m probably not the ideal person to write [...]

It was two-ish. The baby was making a noise. There was a consensus that maybe we should be getting him a bottle. E was talking to me about it. I murmured in my sleep that he didn’t have a 24×7 Support Agreement.
So she went to get the bottle.
It’s been a long week.

Exciting late news the other week when I was flicking through an issue of ‘The Grocer’ in WH Smiths, and I saw that Opal Fruits had made a long overdue return to our shores. Unfortunately, it was for a limited engagement of 4 months, exclusive to Asda, and starting in May.
“How did I not know [...]

Finally confirmed this week, our annual bonus, payable because of the company performance last year. I tell E about it and she mentions that I should treat myself to something. “Good Idea”, I think, and pre-order the American Flagg trade, which I’ve had my eye on for, oh, about the four years since it was [...]

I’m away for the next few days, attending a course on Storage Networking in the M4 corridor. Yes, it does sound a little dry but I’m only going on it because I asked to, so I shouldn’t grumble. Elsie is packing me off with Season 2 of Battlestar Galactica (which she doesn’t like) and in [...]

Sooo, as I have obliquely hinted at previously, today was the day. I’ve spent hours on the phone trying to explain to the researcher exactly what I do at work. (I’m not sure she ever sussed it out) I’d picked out my three outfits (well, t-shirts) so that wardrobe could make sure I didn’t clash [...]

Busy week chez Miller. Some time ago I booked myself in for a Certification exam for today. It was a few months away, and I thought I’d be ok. Annoyingly, in the interim, our relationship with the software provider evolved slightly, to the degree that instead of the certification being a personal objective, it was [...]

Our plans for a quiet New Year revolved around getting quietly pissed. Following our cocktail exploits on the QM2, E had bought me some cocktail paraphernalia for Christmas, and in the course of returning a book to Waterstones post-Chrimbo, we managed to purloin a book of recipes. So, ingredients were bought, and plans were made [...]

It’s the last day, and despite there being valid reasons to be leaving, there are also valid reasons to stay and its hard not to romanticize everything. This is the last time I’ll go out for lunch on a Friday – I’m going to miss our coffees in the breakout area. That kind of thing.
But [...]