The Importance of Being Idle

The Stranger Returns

Blimey, it's been a while eh?
I have excuses and reasons, which would you like first? Excuses? Okay, well I've been REALLY busy...
No seriously, that week of courier work was bloody hard goin'. Admittedly you don't always DO a lot, but just the driving is tiring. I went down to London a couple of times during the week, had one day that started at 4am, and another one where I went all the way down to Devon (an eight hour round trip!). So as much fun as it was, I was kinda glad when it was over, 'cos I was bloody knackered!
Now for reasons: NTL decided, in their wisdom, to temporarily disconnect our broadband service. This is a good one. Okay, so when I moved up here I thought I'd transfer all my existing services to the new address right, make things easy? Yep, would have, except that they didn't migrate the direct debit instruction, so our bill didn't get paid. When I DID try to pay it using my credit card I discovered that my bank (thanks Barclays!) hadn't processed my change of address correctly and had left me at the old address. When they got returned statements, they assumed I'd vanished and promptly cancelled my cards. So we had to pay by cash, and then the Post Office managed to delay the payment, so we got disconnected. This was bad. In fact the whole thing was bad, but luckily I think it's pretty much all sorted back out again now, and everyone is happy. I'm just glad I was trying to pay a bill over the phone when I found out my card had been cancelled, and hadn't just put fifty quids worth of petrol in the car that I suddenly couldn't pay for.
Now to my new job.
Well, I'm four days in, and to be honest I don't feel like I've done anything. Admittedly, I haven't, but that doesn't change a thing. The first two days were just waffley corporate induction, which was so tedious that I was actually thinking about finding a new job by Monday lunch-time, but for the past couple of days we've been doing some basic financial training, and I've been finding that super-interesting: I even stayed on an extra half an hour to listen to my 'buddy' (yuck! We have phone buddies!) on the phone with customers! Still, I'm enjoying it a lot more now, so that's good. I've got photos of some of the nice parts of campus (the herb garden, and the pond) where I tend to spend my lunch break, but I'll post them another time.
I'm sure lots of other things have happened (the rabbit incident springs to mind) but I can't really think what they are. So I'll leave it there for now.
I'm not dead yet, which had to be good news, right?

posted by BadMonkey @ 6:52 PM