So, I'm in my last week and I don't really care. I've moved on to a teeny terminal to allow "The Apprentice" full access to the fountain of knowledge that was my PC. I can barely do anything on the terminal which is annoying on one hand and liberating on the other as any real work must go to the apprentice as I relax offering occasional advice.
The Apprentice never did write any more down, you would have thought this meant he has supreme confidence but he definitely doesn't display it.
There was a storm of biblical proportions last week and I had to leave work early as my house was flooding and my daughter's school was closing. Well I say my house was flooding my lovely wife rang me at work saying that my MOT certificate was soaking wet by the back door and she was assuming it was letting in. Now I don't know about you but that conjures the requirement of sand bags, sad images of cracked, water damaged wedding photos floating on the water's surface and frowning old couples saying that they've lived there for fifty years and the rains never been so bad, blockading the door against the tide created by the rain, battening down the hatches, etc. I got home to a dry house with a barely rain wet back garden. My wife explained that it wasn't that bad to which I explained that her prior phone call made it sound as though our house may wash up somewhere on the coast of Italy.
What had actually happened is during this torrential downpour our bedroom window had been left open and it had taken in soaking through the curtain, piles of my clothes, the carpet and the downstairs ceiling, I've come to the conclusion it must have dripped through the ceiling on to the MOT certificate, the patch on the ceiling is directly above the back door and my wife hadn't noticed it.
Anyway this is all a round about explanation as to why I wasn't at work Thursday afternoon and Friday day. On Monday Righty approached me saying that he'd asked the apprentice to do something at it had gone over his head. We had a meeting to discuss the issue Righty, the apprentice and I. After the resolution I realised that the apprentice lacks problem solving skills, something that that's in quite demand for the job. Like I said though, it's my last week and I don't really care.
Righty suggested I go over the road to the Chinese all you can eat buffet with a few people on Friday at 2 and I can go straight home afterwards, though of course this is more a vehicle so HE can go for lunch at 2 and leave afterwards but I'm not so pedantic as to point this out or decline the offer, well I say "offer", the company won't be stumping up for the meal we all have to pay for ourselves the company paying for it would be in direct violation of it's "we hate Adam" policy. It's a very strict policy.
Took my two youngest daughters and son to see the Olympic torch relay near home over the weekend. My wife assured me that it could be a life changing experience. It wasn't. She also however said it was a "once in a lifetime experience" so at least I can be glad about that. The best way I could put it would be to say it was like an odd mix of cross-country running and arson, sponsored by Coca-Cola. I stood with my daughters on a shoulder each as Coca-Cola people went by NOT offering my outstretched hand a free bottle of Coke Zero, then a bunch of Samsung staff NOT offering me a (paper, Samsung on one side, Union Jack on the other) flag. "I have a child on each shoulder! Who is in more need of a drink and a flag?" I thought. Well, Samsung have made my list, when the revolution comes SKY, O2 and now Samsung are going to get it first! Not Coca-Cola though, I can't stay mad at them, they've done such great work with Christmas.
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