Two things that cheered me up today....

Reading this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7702913.stm

and watching this:

(The background is that Sky Sports get two fans of the teams playing and allow them to do the commentary - why anyone would listen to muppets like these for 90 minutes I don't know. Anyway, Spurs (yay) played Arsenal (booooo) on Wednesday night in a bonkers game that Arsenal somehow managed to draw 4-4 after being 4-2 up with less than a minute to go. I think the Spurs fan's reaction when the equaliser went in was - minus the gut - pretty much a mirror of mine :) ).

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid958992159?bc tid=1887841049

Sleep, glorious sleep....

My small sojourn into not blogging coincided with two things:

1) Me working hideous amounts of overtime and
2) Spurs being the biggest pile of poo since Mr Neanderthal ate uncooked Mammoth meat and suffered from the Neolithic runs....

I don't want to talk about 2 (though we have won and will hopefully do so tonight as well against the hideous gooners) so I shall stay on the subject of 1.

The day I went permie we happened to have a scheduled meeting about our wonderfully helpful and patient* client in America. The option of overtime was offered to allow out of hours 'emergency support only'. I agreed.

Everyone else refused.

Arse.

So I've done 85 hour weeks every week this month as I'm 'on-call' for 'emergency issues only' until 11pm every night, 7 days a week.

I have a nice new Blackberry which buzzes every time an issue is raised, meaning I have to get to my computer and respond to the issue within an hour.

I tried to quit after the first weekend. Sample moment of the personal hell that was my Saturday - having to leave my shopping in the supermarket, drive home, boot-up the laptop only to find that she needed something doing IN FOUR DAYS TIME but didn't want to forget so was insisting I did it immediately.

And apparently if I told her to 'fuck off' I'd get in trouble. Where's the justice in that?

My threat to quit got her told off enough to only raise issues that were emergencies. My average evening goes like this:

BUZZ!!!! BUZZ!!!!
*check email*
*sigh*
*logon*
*type 'This is not a critical issue. I will look at this in work hours tomorrow.'*
*logoff*
BUZZ!!!! BUZZ!!!!
*check email*
*sigh*
*logon*
*type 'That is in testing and will be rolled out next week.'*
*logoff*
BUZZ!!!! BUZZ!!!!
*check email*
*sigh*
*logon*
*type 'As just mentioned in the other issue you raised just now, that is in testing and will be rolled out next week.'*
*logoff*
BUZZ!!!! BUZZ!!!!
*check email*
*sigh*
*logon*
*type 'As just mentioned in the other two issues you recently raised, that is in testing and will be rolled out next week.'*
*logoff*
*scream in frustration*

I currently very much have a love/hate relationship with Americans. Thankfully with different people ;-)


Uh-oh, I think I hear something buzzing..... :(



*Evil, vicious Harpy

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Welcome, bienvenue, wilkommen.

I've decided to start again with a more accurate title, a new hit count and hopefully one less mad irisher.

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Oh, you can't read this can you?

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Quite a lot has happened in the last month which I will feel obliged to bore you all to death with shortly, but I'm actually still doing work so it'll have to wait.

Adios! :)