Wednesday Wondering

Early start in the morning as I have a day trip back to the UK, deep joy. Yet another short flight into the dreaded Heathrow but this time only a 15 minute drive to the meeting. Then a whole day of technical presentation’s on networking, I hope I do not self harm to much to take the mind numbing boredom out of it. I was present when the CEO of this company gave the initial pitch on the self defending network it will be interesting to see if the guys tomorrow do such a good job as the man at the top. My main technical guy is not attending as he lost his passport on Monday. After a couple of days looking for it he went down and filed a police report. Next day it turns up in one of his shoes. Problem is it takes about 5 minutes for a passport to be reported lost but around 48 hours for the report to be cancelled. I still have two other guys from the place I work with me but its not going to be a lively debate unless I step into the fray. At this stage I’m not sure I have the energy.

House is progressing well all the rooms are built one has been plastered and another is in progress. Its already time to see what the next steps are. The guy is coming to collect the mammoth skip in the morning. I’m dreading the bill as long as its less than 5,000 I will be happy. The is still a load of wood to go but the farmer will work his magic on that. As for the rubble that’s getting dug into the ground.

Had loads of problems with the PC "hanging" when I rapidly changed between directories in Windows Explorer. No errors on the screen and nothing in the error log, when I ran perfmon nothing looked out of shape. I tried a number of fixes but the problem turned out be that my default folder view was Thumbnails. As soon as I changed the default to list the problem cleared up. I guess its because the PC needs to read every file and create a thumbnail if it needs to. With a large number of files this could explain it.

I’m trying to get my act together and see things from other peoples perspective. No more self loathing (will have to work on that) and more looking at my actions from the other side of the fence. I have to make this work.