Yes, I am still alive
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bookzombie...but sometimes this week only barely.
Sorry to have been rather quiet recently. Work has been taking its toll and when I've not been at work, doing nothing in particular seems to have been the thing to do.
Last week was a particularly trying week. I had to present a possible new way of working to all the department managers (I won't bore you with the details). It went very well (better than I expected) and if we can justify going ahead it will reduce some of the stress considerably. Still, it took a lot of effort to get ready and used up pretty much a whole day of the week.
Other than that I had my Quarterly Review which was not my best. Nothing to worry about, but people had noticed that I lacked a bit of my normal enthusiasm recently. Personally, I would put it down to concentrating my resources on what absolutely had to be done and letting some of the less urgent stuff go. Anyway, nothing was said that I could really argue with and it's given me some food for thought on managing my time more effectively.
I had Friday off, which was much needed. The day mainly consisted of playing on my Playstation and watching episodes of CSI: Miami!
We saw the Wallace and Gromit film on Thursday evening which was great fun. We are continuing to enjoy Veronica Mars a great deal. Spooks has picked up pace after the rather lack-luster third season.
Book-wise, one of my local shops has started stocking the Dork Tower books, so I've been catching up with them (and boy do I recognise myself in some of the character behaviours!) And although I've been out of the gaming world for a long time, I'm around the right vintage to get most of the jokes!
P. J. Tracy's thriller Live Bait was rather better than the first in the series, and actually got me emotionally involved in what was going on.
I've not been reading much SF recently, no particular reason, just reading other things. The exception is An Epitaph in Rust, Tim Powers' second novel. Rather better than his first, but he still hasn't really come into his own yet. Mind you, his hero does get maimed at one point, so he has started to establish one of his signatures!
Sorry to have been rather quiet recently. Work has been taking its toll and when I've not been at work, doing nothing in particular seems to have been the thing to do.
Last week was a particularly trying week. I had to present a possible new way of working to all the department managers (I won't bore you with the details). It went very well (better than I expected) and if we can justify going ahead it will reduce some of the stress considerably. Still, it took a lot of effort to get ready and used up pretty much a whole day of the week.
Other than that I had my Quarterly Review which was not my best. Nothing to worry about, but people had noticed that I lacked a bit of my normal enthusiasm recently. Personally, I would put it down to concentrating my resources on what absolutely had to be done and letting some of the less urgent stuff go. Anyway, nothing was said that I could really argue with and it's given me some food for thought on managing my time more effectively.
I had Friday off, which was much needed. The day mainly consisted of playing on my Playstation and watching episodes of CSI: Miami!
We saw the Wallace and Gromit film on Thursday evening which was great fun. We are continuing to enjoy Veronica Mars a great deal. Spooks has picked up pace after the rather lack-luster third season.
Book-wise, one of my local shops has started stocking the Dork Tower books, so I've been catching up with them (and boy do I recognise myself in some of the character behaviours!) And although I've been out of the gaming world for a long time, I'm around the right vintage to get most of the jokes!
P. J. Tracy's thriller Live Bait was rather better than the first in the series, and actually got me emotionally involved in what was going on.
I've not been reading much SF recently, no particular reason, just reading other things. The exception is An Epitaph in Rust, Tim Powers' second novel. Rather better than his first, but he still hasn't really come into his own yet. Mind you, his hero does get maimed at one point, so he has started to establish one of his signatures!
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Date: 2005-10-23 11:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-26 07:26 am (UTC)Mind you, I wasn't particular bothered about his last novel, Declare. A think of sound and fury...
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Date: 2005-10-31 04:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-24 07:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-26 07:39 am (UTC)Live Bait is much more enjoyable.