Back In The Office

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Well, I’m back in the office, and it’s not been as bad as I thought 🙂
I’ve not been disturbed too much (only about five or six time so far), and have managed to get some work done. I did find out they’ve changed the train times one me though! My usual train now leaves five minutes earlier than before; luckily I was there in time.

There have been a few changes, but as I was keeping up, with emails, IM and the odd phone call, there was only one surprise. Half a dozen desks in the development department were empty! It turns out that one of the teams has been moved off into another room, to allow them to work undisturbed.

Back To Work

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I’m back in the office tomorrow after working from home for more than two weeks. I’t going to be strange. I don’t imagine I’ll get much work done tomorrow. There will be too much catching up to do. I’m sure there will be a queue of people at my desk 🙁
It’s also going to be strange (and expensive) travelling on the train again. And it’ll mean I won’t be back home ’til nearly 7pm. Jan is not going to be happy. 🙁

Win2K Troubles

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Hmmm. For an assortment of reasons, I decided to upgrade Pinga (the PC in the kitchen used by the girls and visitors) to Windows 2000. Unfortunately, it didn’t go very well. It will only boot in safe mode, but I haven’t got a clue what is making it hang in normal mode.
It’s an old machine with some old/odd peripherals. Strangely, I’m pretty sure I’ve had all the peripherals working on my machine (which has Windows 2000) at some time; scanner, card reader, wireless pen pad, etc.
Luckily, I didn’t overwrite the Windows ME which was on there. So they still have a working machine until I can sort it out.

Saturday…

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Went round to my Mum’s today, Jan took her to the doctor’s coz she’s having trouble with her back again. I stayed behind and fixed her loo seat! 🙂

My ‘cousin’ Ade has been staying at my Mum’s for a couple of days. He’s looking for work ‘up north’ amongst other things. We had an interesting chat that got round to his school life in Nigeria. Very different to my school days.

Back home we didn’t do much as the planned autumn clean up of the garden was postponed because of the rain. Later Steve, Kim, and Megan came round. He was showing us his new toy. It’s very nice with lots of cool functions, but I did find it awkward to hold. I’m left handed and always find small Japanese electrical toys difficult, but this really didn’t sit comfortably in my hand.

We also spent way too much time on this very addictive word game. A joint effort netted us a score of over 400,000!