What do you do
I have a shitty net connection at the moment, and I’m tempted to throw the modem down the loo. I don’t honestly think it’s the modem, but it’s small, an inanimate object and I’m sure it wouldn’t scream if I put the blame on it. It’s hard working for a company where I know and understand the fault/troubleshooting processes and sitting staring at the connection, willing the water to dry up in the pits.
If the modem keeps pissing me off I am going to reset the little bugger and re-do the wireless. The only way out now is my way. I’ll deal with it for a bit longer, but I noticed the HM is doing some torrenting. Since we’re down to 11Mbps from 22, it’s actually noticable.
Work has been really hectic of late. I have all this stuff to do, and I am not really enjoying much about it except that I am slowly getting people in my team happier in their job. I’m arranging training for them in a couple of weeks for coaching training. The downside of work is the politics of the place. It’s much more cut throat there. Loads of people are there to move up and out of the call centre, and I just don’t know if it’s the right place for me. On the flipside, I’m getting involved in side projects which involve interaction with others in the business. I’m looking at learning new skills and will look up a how-to for editing wiki’s.. I’m smiling really… and lets look at the reasons why.
I have a kick ass team right now, that’s two in a row. There are people in it who have the same warped humour that I do, and it’s a laugh a minute with the amount of innuendoes that come out at night. Some cynics, WoW players *rolls eyes* and Revheads. I have a good manager who coaches me. He should open his own consulting business with all the shit that he knows. On the flipside, I do prefer hands off. I dunno, lets move on.
MM is turning up soon, and I’m a little nervous about it (again). I’m wondering what to wear, how to get my hair cut, do I do my nails? Will he miss me as much as before? I need to clean everything! I’ll do that this weekend whilst HM is home.
She can probably help. At least I haven’t needed to clean the shower recess again. God, that was bad. I don’t want to put it all up on a website, but my goodness she needs to learn how to share a flat. I am passive aggressive too! I have discovered this! I leave notes on the whiteboard and prefer dealing with things in email. Then I was describing things I did when I was younger to get back @ people who were pissing me off - and I am! It takes a lot for me to say something if someone pisses me off. I can bitch about it, but if I do, then I need to tell that person to their face. I do most of the time.
The only person I haven’t done that with is D, a friend from a long long time ago. Who wrote in an email to me that perhaps I deserved what happened to me with losing track of friends after the problems with my X. That she’d lost trust in me, and now she gets me marginalised quite a bit these days. So perhaps she’s won too! Ah well, I’m making new friends. Did I mention I went drinking a couple of weeks ago and sculled 2 pints of Guinness?! amazing.
October 9th, 2008 at 5:37 am
Ugh. I actually ENVY your 11Mbps. Up here in the cyber third world that’d be reaching the upper limit of what the local “technology” can muster. The hamster on his wheel can only run SO fast, y’know?
It sets the scene for some fierce battles between the wife and I. She has a weekly ritual of clamouring for the latest episodes of various US shows, and I’d like to surf the web without waiting for an hour between pages.
Somehow, she usually wins. Funny, that…
October 12th, 2008 at 4:12 am
heh. Hi Andy
nice to meet you, I feel your pain, I was living with 4Mbps for a while, and now my connection is back up to the usual speed I do know what you mean about hamsters running their lil feet off.
i suggest rabbits might be a little faster