Journal: July 2008

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Beware of the router
Sat 26/7/08 (Link to this entry)

I'm currently living in fear of my life. The network hardware in this house is taking on a life of its own. I bravely managed to briefly trap Frankenrouter, as I call it, into a corner to take this picture - luckily, the flash was enough to daze it so that its subsequent death lunge missed me by a few inches.

I've barricaded myself into my room as I type this but I don't know how long the door's going to hold out. I can hear it prowling around outside, plotting its next dastardly move. If this is to be my last post then thanks for reading, and please send a SWAT team round here along with an undertaker to pick up my body, or at least what's left of it...

Hard work, this work business
Sun 20/7/08 (Link to this entry)

It's been a while since I last wrote anything in here, partly due to lack of time but mainly due to lack of inclination. One of the main things I've been doing at work is a large amount of web-based documentation for our software tools and, as is usually the case when I'm doing hard writing-related work, the journal suffers as a result.

Not that I've got many exciting things to talk about, really - through me working overtime and James being away most weekends, I haven't done too many exciting things lately. The highlights include a few nights out to the pub (including my birthday last week, which was very enjoyable) and what was quite possibly the world's wettest barbecue the week before that:

As is often the case, the pouring rain doesn't come out very well in the photo but hopefully the various people cowering under the gazebos should give you an idea of what it was like. The rain kept gathering in little pools on the tops of the gazebos and spilling out every so often, which was quite amusing until it happened right down my back. Despite this the night was very enjoyable and thanks as always must be directed to Tim, who played host and chef admirably (and Michael, who did his part cleaning up the extra food).

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