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

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