Month: November 2005

All Good Stuff

Work has suddenly become a bit more interesting. I’m getting set up for a new project, which is going to involve Windows programming (a far cry from Linux-land, where I have been for the past year or so). I’m really pleased to be working on something meaningful at last. New boss seems ok so far,…

Derailed at Thanksgiving

This post contains affiliate links. These support my writing at no extra cost to you. Thank you. It is Thanksgiving here in the US, which is a really strange thing for us Brits. It’s as big (if not bigger) than Christmas, and also involves turkey. It’s amazing that there is a holiday this important that…

Surviving Long Haul Flights

Surviving Long Haul Flights

*2024 Update: This was written in 2005 so taking water through security isn’t allowed now. And online check-in is the norm! I’ve been lucky enough to travel all over the world for pleasure, and to and from America more times than I can care to remember for business. What follows is my advice for getting…

UK Citizens Win Bid

We’re coming home! It’s all official. My email wasn’t read until this morning, hence the lack of response. I talked to the director organising it all, and although he looked a bit stressed, and I think, a little bit offended we hadn’t talked to him earlier, he was quite positive about us returning to the…

Reign Of Apathy

I am suffering the worst case of combined apathy and boredom I think I have ever experienced. At the moment, my sole responsibility in life is to turn up to work sometime before 10am. My new manager hasn’t really started managing me yet, and he is on holiday, so at work there’s little to do…

Holiday Notes

Holiday Notes

Hurrah! – we survived the 28 hour journey there (and made our connecting flight 7 minutes before it was due to leave Gatwick, result!). Holiday photos from the gloriously sunny Tenerife and a quick wander down the Strip at Las Vegas are now available … why do holidays always go so fast? They go even faster…

Waiting

Three and a half days. That’s how long the management in the Company of Chaos have been in planning meetings now. Today they’ve even gone so far as to pin a ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign on the conference room door. Must be talking about something important. The big boss is supposed to tell us today…

Starbucks

Server 1 Hello there, and how can I help you today? Faye I’d like a tall hot chocolate and a tall mocha please. Server 1 A tall hot chocolate… (bashes at till), and er, what else did you say? Faye A mocha, a tall mocha please. Server 1 (Looks confused) A what? Faye A mocha…?…

No News From The Office

I’ve just eaten a Big Mac for lunch. This is my second MacDonald’s in less than a week. Why is it that I never eat the stuff in the UK, but I get cravings for it in the US? I’m sitting at my desk now feeling a bit sick and shivering because the vanilla milkshake…