SD

I keep on seeing adverts for San Diego on TV.  As annoying as they are, they must be working because they don't just make me want to visit San Diego again but they want me to move back to San Diego.  If only it was more affordable to live there.  Perhaps one day.  I do miss living there. 

TV Theme Tunes #73 to #77

 Some more classic sports themes:

Wind

We've had some really windy weather recently.  As evidenced by all the bits of trees lying on my yard and driveway.  It's a miracle that I haven't had a power outage, because I know nearby neighborhoods weren't so lucky.  But one casualty from the windy weather is my wind chime, pieces of which I found scattered around the ground.  This is the second wind chime I've had in as many years that hasn't lasted, so I guess I need to buy a more durable replacement.  At least I haven't had much snow - just managing to avoid the convergence zone that developed north of me.  But it has been really cold, making for some unwelcome late winter weather.   

Is it Friday yet?

A rough start to the work week, when the very first thing I discovered when logging in today was that a contractor I'm working with had messed up.  However, it doesn't matter how many years I've worked at this company, I learn something new every day.  For example, I knew one location where we kept backups of our network drive.  But I didn't know about another location - which proved to be a godsend, because that second location had the backup we needed to recover the files that this contractor had inadvertently overwritten.  Between Friday and today, it's been a stressful few days of work.  And I don't see it getting better anytime soon.  But this is not untypical for my job - the workload very much comes in peaks and troughs, normally long troughs with occasional extreme peaks.  I happen to be on one of those peaks right now. 

Trail Cam Jan-Feb

Here are the more interesting shots from my trail cam over the last month or so.

Avoiding Scores

Surprisingly, I've managed to avoid finding out what the Scotland vs England score was in the rugby today.  I could have watched it live via streaming, but I missed it - and the replay isn't available until tomorrow morning.  And it's an absolute miracle that I haven't accidentally come across it while on the internet.  Because I was looking up football results, how we are doing in the cricket, and other sports news, scores and headlines throughout the day.  Perhaps I should look the score up now to save me bothering to watch the game if England lost.  No, I will resist and prepare to be disappointed later.   

Friday

Just what you need on a Friday - a long and stressful day of work.  Dealing with incompetence and idiots needlessly creating more work and more drama for others.  I can barely tolerate work at the best of times, but I can't and won't take many more days like this.  Not many people go into the office on a Friday, and by the time I eventually left in the evening it felt like it was just me, security and the cleaners left in the building.  Normally I only stay this late if the traffic is bad - this time I didn't even get a chance to check the traffic because I was so busy trying to put out one fire after another.  So many aspects of the modern office work environment really got on my nerves today - from the lack of telephone (I don't want to take calls at my cube via my computer and wearing a stupid headset), to instant messaging (some people really abuse this and constantly interrupt you), to the fact that not a single person I'm dealing with is based in Seattle nor their first language is English (without face-to-face interaction, all my relationships feel so impersonal and communication is a nightmare).  It's days like this that really make me question my career choices.