Lots of Chorus stuff keeping me busy at the moment. Sunday was the final CD recording session. It was an all day affair but, after six, long months, Christmas is finally over! Yesterday was an intake evening for new members and, as Chairman of the Membership Committee, this meant lots of work for me. There was a good turn-out of volunteers too, which meant the whole evening went smoothly.
Tonight was a meeting of the Membership Committee itself and we had plenty to discuss, but it went quite smoothly and was a productive meeting. Hopefully we’ve managed to damp down the hornets’ nest we stirred up by some bad wording in the last set of minutes. I have to find time to write up this latest set of minutes at some point though.
Yesterday I had to perform one of the sadder tasks that you get in IT Support. In this job, a bit like being in the clergy, you get to see people in all walks of life in all kinds of situations. Yesterday I had to break the bad news to one of our consultants that the file containing his expenses data for the last three months had in fact been irretrievably lost. It was a simple misunderstanding on his part about how the synchronisation worked between his PC and his PDA, but it could conceivably leave him several thousand pounds out of pocket. The moral of this story: look at how you use your IT in your day to day life and think through what might happen if it suddenly wasn’t there – then take steps to guard yourself against those consequences. It’s the constant mantra of IT support staff to users – and there’s a reason why we keep saying it.
Anyway, now I’m home and getting ready for bed, the realisation is dawning that Brett is away and won’t be back for a while. This isn’t a long Chorus meeting he’s at, where he’ll be home a bit late and climb into bed shortly. He’s gone until at least Friday. The bed seems awfully big without him.
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