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I must be the worst person here at keeping this blog thing up-to-date. At least recently, anyway. My excuse is simply the site has got so modern that the laptop took a cup of tea/coffee to load a page! And as I am not renowned for my patience with computers (except when setting them up) I gave up for a while. So having bought a bit a month for too many months, I now have a proper PC again. Those who have no interest in specifications can skip the next paragraph.
Board: ASUS M4A87TD-Evo; SATA 3, USB 3, multi-channel audio etc.
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition @3.4MHz
Graphics: Two Radeon 512Mb HD5450s, cross-fired. 2Gb total when 'hyper'
Memory: 8Gb 1333Mhz DDR3
Storage: 60Gb SATA3 SSD, 2x 500Gb 7200rpm SATA HDD
Optical: 24x DVD RW
Power Supply: 700w
Operating System: Windows 7 dual boot with Ubuntu 12 on SSD
OK, having bored almost everyone, I’ll get back to the bloggy stuff. And having noted it has yet again been almost a year since I last dropped in (except for a couple of half-hearted attempts where the site took too long to even load), I have a little to add. Work was uneventful but stressful until the end of November, when I managed to run out of fuel on the way home on a Friday evening. This was the last straw – I mentioned work being stressful, which was due to me taking on another service. It turned out I was not suited to the types of calls I was receiving on this. Anyway, having walked home down the lanes, I don't know how far it is but it took me three hours, I arrived cold and knackered. That was the furthest I had walked for a very long time. A bath was called for and duly taken. Which was when I realised how far I was overweight. Being tired only accounts for part of the difficulty I had getting out of the bath. Self-esteem hit rock bottom and I took to my room for the remainder of the weekend. And stayed there when it was time for work Monday.
Upshot of this was off work until January with the usual pills etc. which is what I really needed, a time-out. And when I went back, I resumed what I had been doing prior to the changes and all was well with the world regarding work.
Over the Christmas period I adopted another cat from a new resident upstairs – they had two but couldn't look after them properly with no direct access to outside. Stupid person only went and let them out all day, but of course someone let them in with the inevitable result in the stairwell. That combined with them both doing what cats do in the communal garden led to complaints, and all cats had to go. Didn't do my mental state a lot of good, and I still miss her. All the aggravation caused me to do something rather silly. I sent a superficially innocuous text to the main complainant, they took exception to it and went to the police. I ended up with a caution, they got spoken too as well, and we were both told to play nice in future.
Back to routine of work-eat-sleep until the end of April. I often wonder why I bother, as I never seem to have any money, and think sometimes I would be better off working part time. Then during a 1-2-1 with my line manager I happened to mention the caution. They thought it involved texts and emails, alleged this to HR and it hit the fan. (Potentially bringing work into disrepute). Full investigation, interrogation etc. etc. Of course they didn't find anything in my emails because there never was, but I’m still a (paid) lady of leisure while they make their decision on my future. And naturally they have brought up every line I have crossed in the five years I have been there. It would not bode well for me at my age if I lost the job, but I have got to the point where I don't really care. Like I mentioned above, after 40yrs of kowtowing to all and sundry, I am not averse to taking on something simple part time where I can just get on with it without having to think or worry about anything. I have even considered taking early retirement if it was offered.
Apart from all that cr*p, personally I am doing very well. The operation is far enough away I have virtually forgotten the details and all I regret is that I didn't do it years ago.
My son has been conditionally accepted for university (Nottingham, with Birmingham as guaranteed reserve) and will start in September, so everything has been concentrated on getting all the visits to various universities in and then the applications and paperwork sorted out. After that, he's on his own! Going round to see the campuses, I wish I was in his position. It all looks like a lot of fun.
Sue
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