Back in Rotherham yet a-f**kin'-gain - robert, 30/08/2005, 14:57
That's me here, and I'm incredibly tired - struggling to keep my eyes open in fact... I was up at 04:00 this morning, taxi arrived bang on 05:15 and I was at Inverness Airport by 05:30. I don't understand why such an early taxi was insisted - the others had later taxies and didn't arrive till the back of 6, and even then we had a 45 minute wait until the flight. The flight was as expected, not very eventful. I left my PC encoding Antitrust into Xvid with the correct resolution and frame rate required for playback on my iriver H320. It was surprisingly alright watching a movie on it, I had only ever converted small videos to watch on it before, never a full movie. My breakfast consisted of a quarter pounder with cheese meal from McDonald's from a service station not far south of Sheffield. I'd not been to a McDonald's for a long time and realised why - they're crap. Burger King definately do a much better job all round. This trip is pretty shit, I'm doing Application Discovery which I can't stand or am any good at - I don't have the people skills. On the whole I'm incredibly tired, bored and pissed off.Perhaps the week will improve...
Back to normal - robert, 29/08/2005, 14:59
The week before last was great. I was hoping it would refresh me a bit, but instead it made coming back to work worse... Perhaps I needed a longer time off. All these trips to England recently have made me want to move away from here even more, at least back to Edinburgh. There's just so much more going on further south. Perhaps if I had a car it wouldn't be so bad. One day...Once again, it's a bank holiday so I'm sitting in work rather bored, listening to music and generally doing not a lot. At least I'm getting paid for it, I suppose. I wish this damn rollout would just happen. I'm getting rather bored and fed up in Tier 1. Oh well, what can you do?
Tomorrow I'm off to Rotherham yet again - the joy! At first it was a novelty but really it's just a pain in the ass doing a working week from a hotel. I'm not comfortable down there - I don't feel I'm best suited for the task so if they want me down again next week, they can forget it. This time round we're in a different hotel, a better one, so it could be worse. Also, there's a fellow Scotsman going to be there this time so it may not be so bad (Spending a week with Polish people isn't much fun).
I might go to Edinburgh next weekend, for a piss up, basically. A few of the old ...
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