As mentioned in a comment in the last entry, we now have a fully restored phone and fully functional ADSL 24/7. I feel so 21st century right now. I had an interesting succession of startling moments on Sunday morning, beginning with (a) the realisation that the ADSL light on the router was now lit, after several days of sullen dullness, followed quickly by (b) the sound of the phone ringing (or at least warbling in the least irritating tone available from the limited selection of options that came with it) and (c) that there was a guy in Telstra overalls standing at the front door with a mobile in his hand, nodding thoughtfully. He gave a brief technical explanation which I distilled to the following interpretation: 'the broadband installer did something a bit dumb'. Of course, it's possible he's paid to say that. Surprisingly, the sudden accessibility of Azeroth did not spell the end for my job application writing. I managed to get about as much done yesterday as I would at the best of times (ie the bare minimum to be regarded as respectable for a weekend) though as a not-unconnected side comment I will note that the dishes got washed and a whole bunch of my CD's got ripped into iTunes files etc etc. Your standard horrible-job-avoidance techniques were demonstrably in play. I also got a couple of quests done in WoW and I watched a bit of cricket, but only after I'd done enough to justify some play time to myself...
Monday, February 07, 2005
Broadband update: The End
Last minute rush
Oddly – considering that I was completely alone and unsupervised, due to the rest of my team being out and about the country – I got an awful lot done at work today. I'm due to fly out to Perth on Wednesday to provide two sets of two-day training on the IT application we just finished developing. Never mind that I'm an administrator and have never actually used the software in question, that's irrelevant. The program area that should be doing all of the training is hopelessly understaffed and they need anyone they can get – which means anyone ever even tangentially associated with the project, up to an including one ex-colleague whom they've flown back from London because she's the only one who knows how it works.
These are the circumstances that qualify me to provide training. Be warned. Some day it may happen to you too.
Anyway, got through a mountain of prep for that, organised two meetings that I won't be around to attend, started a contract variation for a completely unrelated side project, and briefed the new Branch head, who wandered in at lunch time wondering where all her staff were.
In others words, I spent a day actually living up to the gross exaggerations, careful misstatements and out and out fabrications that constitute that promotion application.
And now, I deserve a bit of time on some other planet...
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I always get lots done when no-one else is around. No distractions. Of course I also spend my time fretting that I'm wasting my chance to goof off, and then goof off when everyone comes back and can see me doing it.
Well, I think this might be my first post here. Or not. I dunno. I find I can get a lot done on my own too, as long as I can focus. It's just that shint things are so distracting. Especially the shininess of Azeroth.
Actually the only reason I'm posting at all on Dave's computer is coz I just rebooted the router. Still everything seems to be fine and I'm sure we won't be offline for another week and a half...
Jimbo
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