Wednesday 28 September 2011

Autumn Break - Day 3 (Part 2)

Day spent shopping (new shoes and t-shirts) and at Sagrada Familia.

Wow, what an amazing place, so many styles and colours!

Just eaten dinner and off to find a cocktail bar.

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Autumn Break - Day 3

Up late today but that's ok as we needed the sleep.

Breakfast in the cafe next door to the hotel, with 2 cups of their excellent coffee.

Wifi is patchy in the room but strong elsewhere so I was able to update the accounts using Hamish's android pad.

We are now off to shop and explore!

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Autumn Break - Day 2 (Part 3)

Ah beer.

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Tuesday 27 September 2011

Autumn Break - Day 2 (Part 2)

Safely in Barcelona and waiting to check in to hotel. Blimey it's hot.

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Autumn Break - Day 2

My new alarm clock worked a treat and woke me up at 3:30 ready for the taxi at 4:30.

Everything was on time and, after having to leave my electrical items, most of my clothes and my dignity in the scanner tray whilst I was frisked, I am now sitting on the plane waiting to take off.

The plane is orange as its Easyjet, unfortunately.

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Monday 26 September 2011

Autumn Break - Day 1 (Part 2)

Back from  town OK and Hamish has completed the packing.

Bought a new alarm clock/ipod dock with DAB whilst in town as my bedside table was getting a bit cluttered.  Seems odd to have space back again.

Just cooking dinner (well warming up a big pasta ready meal), drinking a large gin and tonic and hoping I can get to sleep tonight ready for tomorrows early start.

Autumn Break - Day 1

Day one of my 10 day autumn break and I'm in Croydon town centre about to get some euros ready for tomorrow's trip to Barcelona. Unfortunately, due to the exchange rate it's nearly euros of pounds - oh well.

I'm still very stressed following an intense time at work over the past few weeks but I am hoping this will wear off soon.

Hamish is packing and I'm going to get at early night tonight as we are off at a stupid time in the morning.

There's quite a few people about today which seems to show that unemployment is up again and, this being Croydon, lots of very young mothers with prams.

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Tuesday 6 September 2011

Idiots

I was an hour late for work this morning. Why? Because some idiots stole the electric cable running to the signals at London Bridge Station.

How irresponsible can you be. This is the cable that controls the signals that STOP TRAINS CRASHING INTO EACH OTHER.

As a result all trains were delayed (and, at 17:00 still are I believe) and it has cost Network Rail thousands of pounds to put right.



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Monday 5 September 2011

Lion Roars

I upgraded my Mac to OSx Lion the day it came out and boy did I have problems. A couple of weeks ago, Apple released a bug fix and now all is well. In fact all is awesome.

The problem is the details of the bug fix listed a few obscure issues that were fixed so how come everything that was wrong is now sorted. Why can't Apple be honest and admit there were loads of problems and list them rather than sneaking the fixes 'under the wire'?


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Busy Busy Busy

Work has a load of new systems in place which are keeping me busy at the moment.

Good weekend with Matt but that has faded away now I am back to the office - today shot by and I still haven't got everything done.

Hamish had a good weekend in Amsterdam but it was good to have him back.




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