How was your day? (Random off topic chat)

I didn't realise he did *that* kind of thing.  Can't have come cheap.

I've spent the morning individually wrapping 2,000 mince pies, almost single-handedly. 🥧🥧🥧🥧🥧🥧🥧

^ The Christmas Market market is very competitive, so I'm trying a new angle this year!!!

Who made you the spelling monitor, Tibidabo, Angela Merkel? 😂

Gosh, but I’m tired. It’s been a really manic couple of work-weeks as we try to simultaneously test, document and create a training plan for a system update and the business process changes that go with it. Training to be delivered next week in anticipation of the system changes going live the week after. Has to be done before Christmas hols as the new sales deals we are administering will kick in from 1st Jan, and obviously we basically shut down over Christmas. Would be nothing worse than new rules kicking in on 2nd Jan on everyone’s first grumpy day back in the office and people not knowing how to deal with it.

We’ve also had a (thoroughly lovely) colleague visiting us from the US office for a week and a half. Which has been very useful in a lot of ways, but as she has been sat opposite me I’ve been doing a lot of the looking after and social stuff with her. Which, don’t get me wrong, has been enjoyable - it’s just also very tiring because I haven’t had a quiet half hour for the last couple of weeks.

TGI Friday!

Yesterday cleaned the flat, did some xmas shopping, saw Pinter 4, had a nice dinner, then Daniel Kitson work in progress at the very cramped Bill Murray (he called me a 'process perv' - you had to be there). A long, tiring and very enjoyable day apart from the shopping bit.

Most of today was the train from London back to Inverness where I will remain mostly sedentary while shrugging off a cold.

Classic guilty conscience!

It blew...much like two of my tyres.

Storytime....I got asked to do a pre-recorded interview with Radio Wales. My job very kindly let me take a long lunch to rush up there and back. So far so good. Except I get there and nobody can find or contact the producer. I sent the host (who had invited me) several texts asking...nothing. Half an hour after it should take place, we (myself and the lovely BBC team) give up, as I can at this point still get back to work on time.

Just as I'm getting to my car, the host texts back, I should have been at the production company, not the BBC (despite that being where the email said, as checked by the lovely BBC staff...that's by the by) can I still get there? Explained lunch break etc, 'oh but it'll only take 10 minutes and we're 5 minutes away' in a fluster, trying to navigate the various one way systems, and follow googlemaps...I drive over a spike speedhump the wrong way. And massacre my tyres. Two of them. A man laughs at me and doesn't help me, and I can't get it back over the bumps. Eventually I do. Not long after two lovely BBC security men come over and see if they can help, they can't as it's two tyres not one, but they are very helpful and check I'm ok. (I am, and I can ring the RAC, if they're happy for me to leave the car here for a bit, they are)

I ring the RAC, and two and a half hours, one trip to buy another tyre later, I'm home again. I'm out half a day's pay, £160 for tyres and never got to the radio show...2018 can bite me.

My only saving grace was my relatively new boss was lovely about it.

Oh and before that I sliced my thumb from tip to knuckle with an industrial staple. Ow.

If the way your week is going so far continues, the train will get a puncture...

Get well soon! I was on steroids last week to try to avoid that exact problem. Hope it clears quickly!

I'm currently travelling to London to dayseat, hopefully, at Drury Lane. It seems the real drama is taking place a mile or so to the west!!!

Yeah, just said something like that on the Brexit thread. James Graham I would say, probably locked himself in a room by now writing away! 

The coworker who got me sick before she went on vacation apologized to me, so that was a bright spot.