Thursday, March 09, 2006
One Part Anger, Three Parts Joy
Stir and serve.
Victories. Annual work bowling competition this evening. With my usual team, we've come 5th and 3rd the past 2 years. Arithmetic progressions are nice. I got 157 and 118 (2nd and 4th respectively), a respectable but not spectacular average. Neil managed to win a Crazy Frog toy after about 40 attempts at the grabby machine. Also had three 2-player games on Mario Karts - 3rd and 2nd the first two times. Arithmetic progressions are nice. Won the OWS quiz on Monday despite thinking we'd done appallingly - £5.30 each, between 6, so not a bad haul.
Laptop. Finally arrived last Friday - I'm typing this post on it. 9 weeks late, mind! It's very shiny, and has a lot of bright blue lights on it (including a little glowy-eyed alien on the lid). I haven't been in all that much to play with it, but I've finished setting up the toy OS that came with it and will be spending some of the weekend installing a real OS.
Skiing. This one surpassed all the others. Moguls - check. Skaty thing - check. Carving linked turns - check. Val Thorens - nearly check (concern over frostbite turned me back!) World falling over issues - check (three times!) Top, top chalet hosts Rachel and Rowen, and an excellently-located chalet. It was Wednesday before I knew what any of the rest of the town looked like, though! Favourite photo (yes, it's a rainbow!) :
Job upgrade. 2 weeks ago, I tried to find out what had happened to my application. Yesterday afternoon, I finally managed to find someone who could tell me. No interview for me. As, by this time, I was expecting, since the person it had been offered to had already told me he'd been offered it about an hour earlier. So I went to have a chat with the recruiting manager about what had gone wrong. And that's where the anger bit comes in - since he had no available information on how I've done since December 2004 (and I'm aware I've not done too shabbily since then), he'd had to use that, and unsurprisingly, in December 2004 I wouldn't have been a sufficiently good candidate for the job. Am I now? Well, I don't get to find that out, do I? I do, however, get to wonder, if I'd not gone skiing last week, would have been able to change any of this?
Victories. Annual work bowling competition this evening. With my usual team, we've come 5th and 3rd the past 2 years. Arithmetic progressions are nice. I got 157 and 118 (2nd and 4th respectively), a respectable but not spectacular average. Neil managed to win a Crazy Frog toy after about 40 attempts at the grabby machine. Also had three 2-player games on Mario Karts - 3rd and 2nd the first two times. Arithmetic progressions are nice. Won the OWS quiz on Monday despite thinking we'd done appallingly - £5.30 each, between 6, so not a bad haul.
Laptop. Finally arrived last Friday - I'm typing this post on it. 9 weeks late, mind! It's very shiny, and has a lot of bright blue lights on it (including a little glowy-eyed alien on the lid). I haven't been in all that much to play with it, but I've finished setting up the toy OS that came with it and will be spending some of the weekend installing a real OS.
Skiing. This one surpassed all the others. Moguls - check. Skaty thing - check. Carving linked turns - check. Val Thorens - nearly check (concern over frostbite turned me back!) World falling over issues - check (three times!) Top, top chalet hosts Rachel and Rowen, and an excellently-located chalet. It was Wednesday before I knew what any of the rest of the town looked like, though! Favourite photo (yes, it's a rainbow!) :
Job upgrade. 2 weeks ago, I tried to find out what had happened to my application. Yesterday afternoon, I finally managed to find someone who could tell me. No interview for me. As, by this time, I was expecting, since the person it had been offered to had already told me he'd been offered it about an hour earlier. So I went to have a chat with the recruiting manager about what had gone wrong. And that's where the anger bit comes in - since he had no available information on how I've done since December 2004 (and I'm aware I've not done too shabbily since then), he'd had to use that, and unsurprisingly, in December 2004 I wouldn't have been a sufficiently good candidate for the job. Am I now? Well, I don't get to find that out, do I? I do, however, get to wonder, if I'd not gone skiing last week, would have been able to change any of this?
posted by Chip : 23:37
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