Steve's Blog

Got up early again today and set off for work by 6.50. Arrived at the office around 7.35! Had to open the door and unset the alarm. Why am I so obsessed with getting in early?

Had another very productive day and managed to get a good way through my current task. Still a few days work left on it though. Mira the new contractor asked if we had any 3rd party components because she needed to output some graphs and a datetime calendar control in her pages. I was able to give her my graphing class and some code from CodeProject that did exactly what she needed saving the company at least $249! Kudos or what?

Mira is from Dunedin in the South Island of NZ. God alone only knows why she is living and working in the UK. Maybe she was driven out by Hobbits?

I chose to walk in a different direction for my lunch today. I went up the Whiteladies road because I wanted to visit Richer Sounds. I bagged myself a very fine pair of Sennheiser headphones to listen to my ressurected USB radio. More Cafes and wine bars. Lots of restaurants too. Vietnamese, Mexican, Lebanese, Italian, French..... Quite few nice pubs too with chalkboards full of strangely named ales.

As I was walking back to the office I passsed a street of familiar looking houses and it put me in mind of the lodgings that I once stayed in during 1979 whilst on a course in Shirehampton. I believe we stayed in Westbury on Trym but it may well have been on the outer edges of Clifton. I certainly recall visiting some pubs in Clifton at the time. Anyway, that reminded me that I had shared those lodgings with a colleague and friend who went on to be my best man. I suddenly remembered that he worked in Bristol and by coincidence I had his mobile number in my phone. We had lost touch for over 18 years but had met up briefly when we still lived in Farndon and he was visiting Nottingham on a football tour! To cut the story short, I called him and we are meeting for lunch on Thursday.

I think I may suddenly have become the victim of a family IT support incident. I ended up ordering a copy of Microsoft Works 8.5 from eBuyer for my nephew who's dodgy copy of Word had given up the ghost. Word 2002 actually comes bundled with Works all for 39 quid. Anyway he has now asked me to do a website for his plastering business. Doh! I sense that this is just the start?