Well, at the end of week one i'm exhausted! The new job is a steep learning curve and i'm only slightly closer to understanding what it entails this weekend, than I was last weekend. Notwithstanding this, I've found it fascinating and challenging to walk into a new company and all its complex systems, people, culture, and problems.
The route in has been different every day, and still isn't set. I've bypassed the motorways in favour of the option to get off after finding that the second one (the Gateway) is a car park for the last 15km of the trip. Interestingly, you can't very easily avoid this by going in early, since when I went in early on Wednesday (5.30 am) the Ipswich Rd was stationary. People here are universally early risers and early to bed. They are all up by 6 at the latest. People phone here at 5.30 occasionally!!! And at the other end, the streets are deserted at 9 pm. So i'm probably going to go in 'late' ... 9 am.
Wayne offered to let me borrow his shiny new sat nav, but after he'd just been telling us how it had a spack attack earlier, I wasn't so sure that I'd be better off for it. Apparently it says 'recalculating...recalculating...' rather like a distressed Dalek when you drive past a road that it wants you to go down, and offers an alternative. On this occasion, it just lost it altogether and had a 'recalculating' fest ...like a stuck record. He switched it off in disgust.
My laptop has stopped working. It seems like a small fault, but it's in the operating boot menu, so it won't start and i've not had the time to look at it. (Or, frankly, the inclination). The thing has been absolutely bullet proof for its whole life so far, so no complaints really, but since its just about to become Daile's computer when I get a new works one, it seems a bit unfortunate. These sorts of problems seem to happen to Daile quite a bit.... so it feels a bit like an omen. ... But after that it just feels like a COMPLETE pain in the tits!!! (There I said it)
Josh had a long chat with Daile yesterday, and has fixed his ticket so that he's now in Oz for 6 weeks or very nearly. So now he stands a fighting chance of earning some money here...assuming that he's able to find some work quickly.
Today, in a minute, we're going out to do a trail walk with the girls, and then the little ones are coming with me to do some shopping for Daile's birhtday tomorrow. Matilda has some things in mind...(can't say what for obvious reasons). So i'll sign off now and update again tomorrow.
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