Monday happened but I wasn’t much chirpier. Chorus perked me up a bit with the good music.
Tuesday I spent the morning at a Vodafone event in the City. It turned out to be a plug for their latest brainwave; a cheap SoHo femtocell. It’s a good idea but not much use to us at the moment; we don’t need one anywhere in the UK and they can’t be used abroad. The event did give me a chance to get some quality hands-on time with the latest offerings from HTC, Nokia and RIM though. And the lunch was good.
The afternoon was largely a write-off. I gave up trying to force myself to do useful work after a while and got Rob H to upgrade my laptop to the latest test-build of Windows 7. The migration went smoothly enough.
The upgrade project as a whole is giving me headaches though; there are various delays creeping in so we are going to have to delay the delivery.
Tuesday evening we were meeting Mark & Chris for drinks. They are fleetingly together and in London and we’d arranged to meet up. We started in Rupert Street for drinks along with Ping (who is consumed by the RADA production of Company he’s involved with) and then Brett and I went on with them to Bodeans for ribs. Strangely they were both really keen on the venue and then neither of them had any kind of pork or ribs!
Wednesday more than made up for Tuesday’s inadequacy though and I got plenty of work done; confirmed the revised schedule, alerted the business heads and the training company to the change, revised all the room bookings and got our hardware purchasing finalised. That and dealt with a couple of legal issues and yet more software licensing renewals. I ended up staying late.
On my way home I got a call from Anthony F; the Chorus has been asked to record a track with a well-known artist at very short notice and he wanted my help getting the word out to everyone that we needed to field a group tomorrow night and Friday afternoon.
…So, I’d woken up around 4am and not been able to get back to sleep. Shortly after 4am I discovered that my Facebook was offline due to ‘Site Maintenance.’ By the time I got home from work around 8pm I still had no Facebook and the general irritability I’ve been feeling this week, meant I could do without having to do a single-handed awareness-raising campaign. Luckily Brett arrived home around the same time I did and he took care of things, while I dosed ahead of my piano lesson.
It all added up to me having done no piano practice at all this week, so I went in with a certain amount of trepidation. I did okay though. Without having practiced at all, I was better this week than last. I wonder how much greater my improvement would be if I did actually put in the work between lessons.
Still irritable though.
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