Killer

First blood

Josie brought in her first stick yesterday.  Good girl.  Some way to go to catch up on our old cat Poppet.  She must have brought us hundreds of sticks over the years.

Test working from home day

90% of my company is working from home today, it's a test run to see if our infrastructure can cope with the real chance that we may need a period of sustained self isolation.

It's great for me as I definitely like not having to get into work, it's a shame my office isn't ready yet, as working on my small laptop is not ideal.

Current update is the painting's getting done today and possibly tomorrow.  The carpet fitters are in Monday, then the fitted furniture goes in.  There's a chance I might be up and running by Tuesday.

Back op

I've got the pain relief injections in my back today. Boree here waiting in gowns since 12:30. Grr... 

Office update

My new office is potentially getting painted this week, there's carpeting that we need fitted first but I may have it ready at some point next week.

Here are some photos of the finish they've managed to get on my shelves.

Blood donation 49

Nearly got the half century.

Upstairs this time in Bishopsgate Hall.  Nice tiling.  The same nutter Venezuelan nutter lady took my blood.  For some reason she's done it the last 3 times.  I would describe her as an extrovert times 10.  Although i'm not a complete opposite of that i'm always on edge whenever I have to deal with her.  Maybe it's a ploy to get me to donate quicker.  I guess if my heart is pumping quicker so too the blood pack will fill.  I'm happy to take my time.  I'm only missing work. 

Bugger

Just as we've started to see real progress with the house some of the plastering has cracked and blown.  The plasters have comeback this afternoon and have started to scrap the effected bits off.  It's really shit as the painters are in now so everything is going to be set back.  I can't see us getting it all done by the end of the month now.  And that's a pain as that's when we fly to Australia for two weeks.

I remember why I lost interest

I've tired to read the Lord of the Rings 3 times and just couldn't get past the first 10 chapters.  I had no problem reading the Game of Thrones books, all about as thick as LOTR but for some reason I could never persevere.  This time i'm attempting to get through it by listening to the audiobook. 

I've just got to the same stumbling block that has thwarted me previously.  When the fuckers start singing!  They've just met Tom Bombadil.  They don't stop.  I surprised they ever get to Mordor.

Luckily with the audiobook I can just skip forward 30 seconds and pray that they stop.

Blaster storage idea

Things are moving on with the house renovations.  The plasterers have finally left and the painting has begun in earnest. The top floor has seen three coats of paint on the ceiling and the photos of the first coat in the top front room look great.  My room will follow shortly.

I've been thinking about what posters i'd like framed and what light fittings I need.  I can't have too many firm ideas regarding sizes until things get made (desk, shelves and bookcase), but it got me thinking.  Where will I put the Han Solo blaster?

I was thinking a hook on one of the walls, but then I thought, what about a holster attached to the underside of the desk???  It's not ideal as for it to work perfectly i'd have a huge open office with clients sitting opposite.  I'm in a small box room facing a wall. 

But then who would ever see the blaster anyway, other than the cleaners, I would be the only one that ever goes in there.  I think it would tickle me more to tuck it away in secret.  Watch this space...

Painters start work today

The plasterers are due to finish their work today after they slightly overran.  Today the painters started work, they're in for the next 3 weeks.  In addition to this we've got some carpenters round to do some final measurements and a plumber to measure up getting a new radiator fitted.  I asked April how it was going (she's working from home), she replied "Busy".

Ikea face

April dragged me kicking and screaming to Ikea yesterday.

I vow to never go again!

We're moving Florence's bedroom to the top back room (April's old office) to make room for the new arrival in June (ish) and need to get her some new furniture.  April had pretty much decided what to get her anyway but wanted Flo to have a look for herself.

We're going to be ordering all of it online so at least I didn't have to walk around the warehouse section but we did buy a couple of things.  Florence got a new blanket and a new fleece rug.  April got a long shoe horn (she's struggling putting on her shoes at the minute) and I bought a mini cactus.