Category Archives: Work

Finally gone down ill

What a horrible couple of days. Felt slightly off colour in the office on Wednesday but it seemed to go away. Went out for a meal (Indian) with a colleague and had a couple (really) of beers. Felt slightly off when we walked back to hotel but went off to sleep okay. Woke up shortly …

31 January 2009 – 08:29 | By kyber | Posted in Health, Work | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Long long day

Drive down to Swindon last week was hard because of snow and ice. I now go cross-country from the Telford area down to the M5 near Worcester rather than having to sit in traffic jams on the M6. Trouble is, many of the roads are pretty windy, sheltered, and inclined. There were cars that had …

15 January 2009 – 20:15 | By kyber | Posted in Work | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Changing role

After over 14 months working on a major systems integration project for one client, I am finally coming to the end of my work. I have anticipated that I might well move into another role within the project but as my skills tend to have been around more infrastructural based elements, which are nearly concluded, …

19 October 2008 – 21:35 | By kyber | Posted in Work | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)

Team meal

Something unusual happened last night. A large group of us working as a temporary critical-delivery team went out for a meal together. We went to an excellent fish & chip cum pub restaurant, Mulligan’s Restaurant & Bar. The place had a tremendous, relaxed and easy-going vibe to it. The food was excellent as was the …

18 September 2008 – 21:16 | By kyber | Posted in Eating out, Work | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Weekend working

I had three model shoots booked for this coming weekend but I have had to cancel one of them as I need to work on Sunday. I have been lucky over the last few months in that I have felt the need to do only the odd few hours work but this time I have …

12 September 2008 – 17:20 | By kyber | Posted in Work | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Hotel dining

I have spent most weekday nights over the last year in a Crown Plaza hotel. I know the room services menu pretty much off by heart. I am allergic to cheese which knocks out a large chunk of the relatively short menu. I think the food mostly comes from the 3663 food services company, which …

8 September 2008 – 21:27 | By kyber | Posted in Eating out, Work | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

My knee hurts

I was in danger of ignoring this for far too long. There was no obvious trauma to explain why my knee started to hurt when I got up after sitting for an hour or so. It first started a few weeks ago and it was a minor inconvenience that I was sure could be walked …

29 July 2008 – 23:02 | By kyber | Posted in Health, Work | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Assault at the Holiday Inn

We were woken in the night by a fire alarm and then again by a member of staff banging on our door and accusing us of setting the alarm off. We hadn’t.

27 July 2008 – 19:43 | By kyber | Posted in blog, Work | Tagged , , , , | Comments (2)

Hamlet

A brilliant new production of Hamlet staged in Shakespeare’s home town of Stratford-upon-Avon featuring a superb company that included leading actors such as the current Doctor Who, David Tennant, and former Captain of the Enterprise, Patrick Stewart.

27 July 2008 – 18:59 | By kyber | Posted in blog, Work | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (3)

The blocker to home working

The corporate intranet has a bit of a feature today on remote working that I have been perusing whilst providing TLC to an email recovery process I am having to suffer at the moment. My employer has a very positive attitude towards home working and is promoting this way of working. Sadly, it is not …

25 July 2008 – 14:06 | By kyber | Posted in blog, Work | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)