you know, my toes are kind of cold..

so after being back at work for a few days after having a week off, i'm sort of getting my head around the working thing again, i know i've only had a week off, but to be honest, being back at work and going about my daily routine after this last week just seems wrong. the first two days were real slow, then today, things kicked into gear, sort of.

i spent monday sorting out a few things that i meant to get done earlier, just mundane house keeping things so that i kept myself occupied. tuesday was much the same, but i did some cad checks and helped out a bit more with the cad staff when they needed help.

today however, i get a call from the guy at wendy's head office (yeh the ice cream place) i design there shops for them, at least the hydraulics side of things.. and i have maybe 9 of them to do, which i was working on the week that nathan died.. that weekend, i emailed the 2 most senior guys at the office and let them know what jobs i had to be done that were urgent. i knew that we had a bit of spare manpower up our sleeve and that people could afford to cover me during the week.

anyway, long story short, or boring story less boring, nick asks me where the wendy's stuff is. he never saw a drawing while i was away. each store, although is only tiny, should take the average person a day to complete from start to finish. there are a few time consuming tasks involved in making sure that everything is right, and all the t's are dotted and the i's are crossed.. i only asked for 2 of the stores to be done out of the 9, not a big ask i though, but it seems i was wrong.

so today, i find i have to play catch up on those two stores, then have another 2 complete from scratch tomorrow, and another 2 by monday at the latest. i knew the deadlines were looming, but.. i dont know. its just a little bit on the crap side of things. always the same story when you ask certain people to help at work it seems.

all this though makes it ok for me to hate people yes? or maybe not hate, maybe just ambush them with a volley of paint ball slugs.. would certainly brighten up my day at least..


something i was doing a lot the last few weeks, or maybe thats months, was working overtime. i'd hang back until 6 or 7pm finishing stuff off that i didnt get to during the day. its all good to be the CAD manager, IT manager/support guy and a designer, it would be even better if i got paid seperately for all three jobs, but the thing that sucks about it is the amount of work that i *dont* get done. running around like a chook with my head cut off helping people with IT and CAD troubles makes meeting deadlines for design work is just that little bit harder.

but right now, i'm out on my front porch in the rain.. not in the rain rain, but the fake rain.. well no, i lie, there is real rain, but i'm undercover, otherwise my laptop would be quite sad. i'm working which sucks, but i'm at home which is far better than only just getting home around this time. the work i was finishing off a fruit store out at ipswich. it specialises in organic fruit and vegetables. probably a total waste of effort on the owners part, as ipswich folk would most likely not understand.

more importantly i suppose, its raining! it rained all night last night, and then all day today.. and not that useless drizzle rubbish either.. real rain filled with bacon & cheese! i'm quite enjoying the quiet here on the patio, the 18 degree heat (lol) and the pattering of rain on the awning. (yes kip, awning lol.. and no its not beige) makes me home sick for melbourne this weather.. cold, rainy.. awnings.. just brilliant.

only problem with the rain is that i decided to deliver some drawings to an architect today whose office i thought was right near where i wanted to buy lunch.. boy was i wrong.. after about 20mins of trudging through the downpour i finally get there.. you'd think i'd have turned back.. but no, didnt even cross my mind to do that until later.. stoopid.

anyway, is time for me to wander off to bed.. i havent been sleeping well since losing nathan.. so i figure if i get to bed earlier, and actually fall asleep, then at least if i wake up in the middle of the night like i have been, at least i will have slept for longer first.. and i'm almost certain the only person that makes sense to is me.