Okay, I've cut my hair, I've cleaned the bathroom, I've done a little life admin, I've fed the birds, I've fed myself, now I think it's time to try and call the internet people.
Also I was struggling a bit because the call wasn't exceptionally clear and she talked fast and had a thick accent from Essex or somewhere round there and I find it difficult to take stuff in.
Morning everyone. Very exhausting dreams again. Head is properly sore. Lots of work to do today but having computer problems again. I just want to have a long dreamless sleep.
Hope everyone had better sleep than me, or has better sleep if you're off to bed soon.
Earworm this morning is Fauré's Pavane, for whatever reason. Here's some kids playing it beautifully. https://youtu.be/wQDoN40-_C4
@purplepadma Oh yes, it definitely is possible. There's probably a medical reason or something. Maybe one day it can be identified and we can have fewer dreams.
I've mentioned that I'm getting a new boss, and new boss is not going to be replacing old boss directly - they'll be going into a newly created role (because of an organisational restructure).
The proposed job description has been sent around our team for feedback before the vacancy is published. Would it be wrong for me to suggest that a key responsibility for this new role is:
"Let the quality improvement person get on with their job, leave them alone, and stop inviting them to fucking meetings all the time"
Morning. I had a lot of very exhausting and sometimes challenging dreams last night, so I feel like I've hardly slept. And the hose broke again, after my previous attempted fix, so I got soaked when watering the plants. My internet is still running at <1mbps. I'm not in a good mood.
Morning everyone. Felt awful when I went to bed, because of some triggering stuff (not here), but didn't say anything because I hoped I might feel better in the morning. And I do, right now anyway. So there.
Occurs to me that I've lived in my house exactly three years today. If I'd known all of you at the time, and you'd known how things were where I used to live and all the stuff going on at the time, this might seem noteworthy. However, I didn't so it doesn't.
Good news! Because I make an effort to do things properly, a significant amount of the data I lost yesterday is available elsewhere.
Bad news! Internet is working even worse today than yesterday. I have contacted the provider, they want me to call them and check some things, but I can't because of work demands.
Don't know what to do with myself this evening. Probably go to bed soon. Decided to have a belated think about this week's #ThursdayFiveList, for which @neurothing wants #TheOpener - five favourite opening songs of albums.
I'm not sure I can think of five that I'd say are my favourites. I'm far too tired and there's far too much music.
So here's five that came immediately to mind as being particularly good.
Today has been a disaster and I've not even gone to the dentist yet.
Lots of things went wrong with the computer when I was in the office, and through a series of tedious but unpleasant events that I won't try to describe, I've lost some really important data. Specifically: the cardiac arrest data that I've been working on and now need to redo in only two days.
And what's more, I've lost most of the formulae and mechanisms that I've developed to make that arrest work a whole lot easier.
Morning everyone. Four day weeks are such a good thing, and I wish more people had the ability to do them (where appropriate and desirable).
Unfortunately, some things have given me the 'despair at my life having been taken away' feelings, so I'm not doing well right now. I shan't wang on about them here again because it's the same story as many times before.
Also, I had a dream about my Dad being an alcoholic, which is weird, because Dad drank very sparingly and I never saw him even slightly tipsy. Dreams, eh? Odd things.