For once I had a bit of an early night last night and
managed seven hours asleep. I was still up before six o’clock though. I made
toast and watched an episode of “Derek” then had my usual look at the
Internet. It was rather dull this morning; nothing but adverts for stuff in
which I had absolutely no interest.
I had a load of emails – people had been round Kings
Wood hunting for the geocaches I’d hidden there. Several people couldn’t find
certain ones; that’s tomorrow’s dog walk planned for me.
I had a quick Munz, then got ready for work.
What with it effectively still being the Easter
holidays the roads were rather quiet as I drove up the "Operation Brock"
nonsense. I *really* can't see the point of it; there's the same amount
of traffic there always is, just going twenty miles per hour slower. Perhaps
that's the point? I did see four cars and a van going along the bit that cars
and vans shouldn't be in; there's often cars and vans in that bit.
As I drove the pundits on the radio were talking about Kanye West. Apparently he's some
big music star who's seriously upset the Jewish community. At the risk of
stirring up a hornet’s nest, it strikes me that the entire "Jewish
community" is a subject no one dares to mention. It strikes me that
cries of antisemitism are thrown up at the slightest provocation, and the world
and his wife live in terror of such accusations. Meanwhile Israel demands that
America join it in (from what I can see) an unprovoked war and no one
says a word. I'd love to know just what I'm missing here.
And the astronauts are on their way back from the
Moon. Not that they actually went to the Moon; just round it. For all that I'm
a great fan of the space program, it does strike me that they went a long way
to do not very much. Maybe going into a lunar orbit and then leaving it after a
few orbits might have been something? Mind you their previously poggered toilet
has
now been fixed... you know you've got troubles when you are a week
away from the nearest functional chodbin (or even tree to tiddle up).
I popped in to Sainsburys to get a sandwich as I do.
They had quite a few plants; I thought about getting some, but I've done that
in the past. They don't survive a day in the car.
And I went on to work. Originally I wasn't scheduled
to be at work today, but I'd been asked if I might help with doing more testing
on the new IT system. I had a go... there's no denying I had quite a bit
of "Operator Error". The thing would have worked far better
had it done what I wanted it to do rather that what I'd been telling it to do
but that's what completer systems are all about, isn't it? No? - well, that's
the line I'm taking.
I spent much of the day telling management that if I
stuff it up in the testing scenarios then we can see how to avoid subsequent
stuff-ups in the future. I'm not convinced that management subscribe to
this school of thought, but management rarely does. I never used to when I was
a manager.
As I drove home down the motorway so I saw a horse
bolting across one of the bridges that crosses the M20…
We cracked open a bottle of plonk and then finished
off the amaretto whilst watching the last episode of “The Hunt: Prey vs
Predator”. It was a good show, but would have been better had any of the contestants
been likeable. We followed this with a
couple of episodes of “The Other Bennett Sister” in which Mr Ryder
turned out to be quite the beast. Men often are…
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