People can be such wankers

I had to tell some high up guy at work off earlier in the week for giving out his username and password for a system to someone. It wasn't even anyone internal. He's a salesman and he replied with some crap about how I've got no idea and I should start trying to help him sell stuff rather than fucking around doing nothing all day and generally making his job harder.

It took all my will power to simply show the email to HR rather than go talk to him cos I reckon I might have ended up taking a swipe at him cos I was that angry. They've had a bit of word with him and will have a more formal word on Monday. I told them that I don't want to do anything really formal where he gets a warning or something but I said to make sure he stays well clear of me for a few weeks so that I don't have the opportunity to lose my rag while its still fresh.

I ended up taking yesterday off work cos I was still so pissed off and couldn't concentrate and typically he called me up to apologise. I just let him talk and then said "Whatever, I'm off work today" and hung up. I then sent HR a text reiterating that he needs to be kept away for now. What a twat!

Listening to: Nowt
Back: Ok(ish)

Still busy, busy, busy

Well, Ive not posted in a few weeks and quite a few things have happened. I really should get into the habit of posting at least once a week so that I don't have to write so much at once ;-)

Firstly, we've had some other people put in an offer on our house and we've accepted it. Its a girl who'll be living on her own and her Dad is going to pay for the house to make sure it goes through quickly for us.

Secondly, the people up the road on Savick Way that we were gonna buy a house from have been playing silly beggers so we sacked that house off and we had an offer accepted last weekend on a house on Lea Road. We had to extend our price range buy 15K but its worth it cos its a nice big house with a big garden and all that. Hopefully everything will go well ("Touch wood") and we can be in around June time.

Thirdly, the clutch started going on the Punto and we decided en ought was enough with it and went and traded it in against a new Citroen C1 for Deb. She really loves it and so do I cos it was cheap and is cheap to run!

Finally, my work laptop kinda died and I've spent since Thursday night trying to get a fresh install of XP and everything else on it but its proved really hard cos the CD/DVD drive in it doesn't work anymore. Long story short, I've managed it cos I'm blogging from it now but its been a real pain in the arse.

That's it, I've typed too much!

Listening to: Nowt
Back: So so

Busy, busy, busy

Well, here I am blogging at ten to eight on a Saturday morning cos I'm working. I've been archiving data in our databases for 2 weeks now and I'm determined to have it finished this weekend for two reasons. One, it's boring as hell and two, I need to do some real work cos I've got so many deadlines coming up.

I've finally been given another developer (in the loosest sense of the word). Its a lad who's worked for the company longer than I have and he had a stint on the software development team about 4 years ago but had to move jobs in a company wide shake up. He's mainly been doing this and that all round the company for about 7 years. So, he's not brilliant and seems to find it hard to actually remember what I ask him to do but he's been doing two days a week for me since Xmas and now he's gonna do full time as of Wednesday. I'm hoping that he can really get into it doing it full time and start to improve. I'm really hoping that he's more of a help than a hindrance!

In more good news, I think I've got the go ahead to hire a new "real" developer which will be pretty damn good even if I don't have the time to interview people at the moment ;-)

Mom seems to be getting better. I've been speaking to her every day and she sounds a bit better every day although I still think she's trying to rush things like she always does. I just hope she starts to take things a bit slower and not let herself get run down all the time.

Suf and Marc are coming round at lunch time to watch United against Liverpool. If United win today then I really can see us winning the league. Come on United!

Listening to: The woos
Back: Not too bad

Back at work (at home that is)

Well, I started back in work yesterday albeit from home and in some ways I'm doing better back wise than I thought I would be but in other ways its pretty shit. I'm ending up having 2 hour lunches at the moment so that I can have a bath to ease up my back a bit and combining that with walks on the travellator etc it makes for a bloody long day!

I've just finished setting up a base build of a new Linux box which is running Fedora Core 6 with Xen virtualization. On top of that its running to further Fedora Core instances as virtual machines. Performance seems pretty damn good and one virtual machine will be used as a web server and the other as a MySQL server.

Its taken me longer than I thought it would (I started well before Xmas) cos so much is different under Linux than it is under Windows but I godda learn it at some point.

Listening to: Foo Fighters - In Your Honour Disc 2
Back: Pretty sore

The office is so noisy

It's so hard concentrating when I'm in the office. I can't believe how noisy it can get in here. It's even worse now that Suf works here sitting opposite me doing all his phone support.

Also, Jan is still a wanker!

Listening to: The people in the bloody office
Back: Ok(ish)