Not so early, the alarm woke me today. It’s
cold, though, and I did not want to leave my warm bed – but nature won’t be
ignored. I had a good laugh yesterday, the new site manager arrived and the
first thing he asked me was where the toilets are. I took him there and as I
turned around it struck me: first thing the new manager asked was that I take
him walkies! It sounds even funnier in german “Gassi geh’n” and it had me in
peals of laughter all the way back. Of course I had to share and we – the
core-group, that is, not everybody – had a good laugh!
At work today, ash had fallen everywhere – no
full layer, but everywhere you look there’s bits of ash, on the ground, on the
steps, on everything outside. But at least the smoke is gone.
The politics at work are providing a full soap
opera, although I was asked to give my take on it all, I’m very happy to be
well out of it, sit back and watch. A instructed B to sign off installations as
done, which information I then passed on to headquarters. C at headquarters
then gave feedback to the client. Client went and checked and found out the
truth. A states the problem is C. I do not understand the logic behind any of
this. Why issue instructions to lie in the first place? Sure, it looks good
when all urgent jobs are marked complete – but surely it’s common sense that at
some point the job must actually be done? Preferably BEFORE the client gets
around to checking? Ah well, back to the grindstone ...
It’s Friday and I’ve done my due diligence for
work. Time to put my weekend-brain in gear. I may very well spend the last hour
or two of daylight in the garden. Fridays I leave work at three, so should be
home about quarter to four. Maybe chat with the neighbour, maybe just go up and
set my game to build stuff for an hour. And then in the garden until around
five, half six at the most. That’s when it gets too dark to see. I think I’ll
attend to my vegetable patch, reap some radish, tend to the tomato plants there
– they need to be tied to something soon. That lawn-like patch is also overrun
by weeds again – different ones, smaller ones. I think the seeds have been
there for many years just waiting for someone to remove the heavy load of dead
grass off.
I think these five o’clock wake-up’s this week
are taking their toll. I’m dead tired – I could lie down and sleep right now.
If I do that, though, I’ll wake up around two maybe three tomorrow morning and
that’s no good. Gotta stay up till at least eight.
Spent most of the evening staring at my
game-city-layout, re-arranging my city a bit.
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