Notes to Myself

Tenniszine

The first blog I've seen devoted to tennis, Tenniszine. An interesting read and worth a look if you're into tennis.

Speed of Life

Part of re-adjusting to working life again is getting used to having so little time to youself. On top of having little time, my mind often doesn't switch off after work and stays in a prioritise this, prioritise that, get as much done as possible and as soon as possible mode. It worries me that I've written an ordered list of things to do on my day off...

I'm starting to catch myself doing this and just have to tell myself to slow down! Sometimes I like to take a step back and look at what I'm doing. After all, life isn't just about work and there are other important things which might easily be neglected.

Stringfellow

Yesterday I was walking in the city at lunch when I saw a familiar looking guy on a bicycle. 'Isn't that Peter Stringfellow?!'. I convinced myself that it couldn't have been, but then today, I saw him riding along the same street again. How strange!

Sports Cafe

The end of another week already! I spent the evening in the Sports Cafe in Piccadilly Circus again. It's a good place to relax and watch a bit of sport on the TV - I got to watch both Nadal and Ljubicic in the Cincinnati Masters, incidentally, both of whom lost. At the same time I kept my eye on another of the TVs to see the Pete winning Big Brother 2006 - not that I was interested...

Rainbow Effect

We had showers on and off all day today. I went along to tennis anyway, and in the end we played quite a bit. The balls were soggy and heavy with water and an incredible spraying effect could be seen whenever a spin shot was hit - occasionally with a rainbow effect in the sunlight! Funky.

Body Clock

Things have been quiet on the blogging front because I've been too tired to write anything. Having said that, with each week that passes I'm getting more used to my new routine.

What annoys me however, is having waited all week to have a lie-in on Saturday and Sunday mornings, I now naturally wake up between 7 and 8 am. My body clock doesn't appear to be able to shut off at the weekends.

So I've had about the same amount of sleep this weekend as in the week. At work I am yawning all day but not at the weekend - is this psychological? What's more draining than my daily schedule is getting used to a new work environment and new people, not to mention learning new technical skills.

Blogging should commence in earnest again soon...

Eclipse

With my Demon broadband, I maxed out at 0.5Mbps, but since changing to Eclipse last week, my speeds have been much much better!

When I've run speed tests, the results have fluctuated quite a lot, but with the slowest so far being at least twice as fast as my previous connection, and my highest speed clocked at 3.9Mbps, I'm overjoyed!

If you decide to make the switch to Eclipse, please enter "DARREN" when asked for a referral code ;)

Foot Rest

Some time during the middle of last week I felt the onset of a dull pain in my thighs. I got into a discussion with friends who suggested I getting a foot rest at work - apparently something which you are entitled to by law? I noticed that one member of staff near my desk has a foot rest and I today I asked where she got it from. Kindly, she told me later that she'd ordered one for me. How nice is that?!

Presentation

At work today it was someone's last day. We got an e-mail saying there'd be a 'presentation'. At the designated time everyone assembled around the individual in question and one of the managers gave quite a long speech. 'Is this normal?' I thought. Apparently so. Isn't that an awkward custom, especially for the leaver? It's a nice idea though, isn't it?

On another note, the cakes keep appearing at any opportunity! Being at the office presents so many sweet temptations.