Well this is my first post for 2009.
Dispite having endless resaons top vent my anger, some personal, some public, some work related i have not blogged much for the past 6 months. In hind sight that may have been a good thing, as??I seem to be particularly grumpy these days.
A summary of 2008
The Bad
- Two deaths in the wife’s immediate family (one was only 19)
- One of my close friend’s father died
- An effective 10% pay cut after being forced into a job role change
- Corp Travel ban due to world financial situation prevent face to face meetings with my team and line manager
- Jake lost his 680 quid bus pass !
- HTC customer Service is a pile of crap
- I am now 41.
- I still have not got my hands on a decnet IIs7 web server
- I did not get offered a job at Microsoft
- I sold my MGF after 8 years
- I dropped my laptop 🙁
The Good
- Jakes started Secondary School
- I became a parent governor as Jake’s New School
- Facebook has enabled my to keep in touch with some old friend (including a few from junior school)
- I dont have a work Blackberry any more 🙂
- Sophie played mary in her school nativity play
- I got a new laptop.. 🙂
I Am sure there there has to be more good points, but perhaps that is why??I have been such a grump bastard lately
