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It’s been a long time coming, but we have a new video on the web site. For those holding out for a video with Daisy in, you will be sorely disappointed. It’s more Me rambling on into a video camera I’m afraid. It’s related to my recent Art experiments. I’m currently off doing a bit more research on that one.
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Sunday: it was such a nice morning that we went to the park (not that it takes a nice morning for us to us to go the park), and daisy had a go on the swings and the Slide.
I’ve resolved with myself this year; I’m not going to get stressed out over work, during the summer.
last summer it all got a bit stressful in work, people as is there want go on holiday in the summer, and given we get huge amounts of leave people often go on quite long holidays. I’m no exception but over the last couple of years my holidays have fallen outside of the traditional summer period (if you don’t have children, then why pay the school holiday premiums) last year it was India (technically 2003, but in my leave year) and this year daisy has taken up most of my holidays. So once again I find myself holding the fort up in the tower.
last year we had some difficulties, to put it mildly, where it fell to me, as the next in line to solve the problems. That got me quite stressed, and I lost some hair, a little patch in the middle of my head. It’s taken all year to come back, and even though it’s silver, I’m not intent on losing it again this year.
the problem is this year, is potentially worse. Currently two members of my team (I say my team, It’s not so much ‘my’ team and more the team I am on) have gone on there long term summer hols, including project leader Stuart. And the third cog Peter has carelessly gone and got himself hospitalized with Acute & chronic kidney failure. It’s not that I begrudge any one their holidays or indeed their kidneys. But it does leave the ‘DES’ team a little light. infact it’s down to one, me.
usually one member wouldn’t be two bad, but as you can guess, hospitalization wasn’t planned on Peter’s part so there isn’t a neat pile of instructions to pick up where he has left things. As a result some quite simple tasks are proving rather difficult. on top of that is the planned workload of the summer, just a little matter of an upgrade there, a complete new system here, and the odd bit of critical end of year work over there.
Well this year, I’m not getting stressed about it all, I’m doing what I can, and people will just have to live with that. If I can’t do it, then well it will just have to wait, and if it can’t wait? Well then it will just have to learn to wait.
I could get stressed out about it all, but at the end of the day, I currently have two options, I can spend days tearing my hair out, looking and failing to do something followed on by what I consider to be my best guess which will probably make it worse (I did this today at one point, doh). Or I can look, make sure I can’t do it, and then say so.
maybe I could get some stress toys on expenses that would be fun.
Apparently, they are going to protest, outside parliament square (while they still can), and the offices of the Oxford University Press. I don’t see how, they are going to stop people saying Couch Potato, and hence how they are going to stop the OED from putting it in the dictionary; that would make for a good book it contains all the words people don’t object to, it would cut down of printing costs.
Yes, it must be that time again, I’ve gone all arty and creative, well I’ve attempted to.
the plan I’ve had for a while, was to do some painting and fill some of the blank walls in the dining room wall. I am aiming for a Jackson Pollock type picture, which to the uninitiated look like paint thrown at canvas. Before I go of and spend all the money on the canvas I thought I would experiment.
So yesterday I got some of my oil paints from last time out, and tried some paint throwing, except that didn’t really work, oil paints are two thick to get the effect. Indeed Jackson Pollock used household paints for his paintings. However we’ve only got White gloss, and I thought that wouldn’t really have a good effect on white paper. So I tried inkjet ink (we’ve got some left over, and we’ve thrown the printer out), that is far to runny. So I’ve ended up with two spotty paintings.
as you can see, it’s a fascinating, mixture of art and mess, and conveys the artist’s worry and ….
then one of my later works
These aren’t quite what I was after, and to be honest I don’t really count them as art, the next experiment calls for some tester pots of household gloss.
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…Or somesuch saying.
today, I had to go back to work after my week of post op nursing, and as is form, the weather has picked up. As a result the office was so hot today. A hot office has the same effect on your brain as a cold January morning does on an old car engine, you keep trying to start it up, but all it does is growl at you a bit and then give up. So today I while my mind spent most of the time trying to start up, I read all my emails, and looked at the things that broke in my absence.
it’s always nice in one way when things brake when you’re not there, because you get this sense of need when you return, of course you also get the sense of missing documentation, and harassment while the problem is solved, but that’s a small price to pay, for feeling wanted!
