Private Thoughts Made Public

It’s a good job I didn’t make a new year’s resolution to write something on this blog every day this year, because I would have failed miserably. Trouble is, there doesn’t seem to be that much going on in my life worth writing about at the moment. I could go on at great length about what’s been happening at work, but stories of other bloggers being sacked for writing about their jobs kinda puts me off a little bit. But not completely, heheh.
I haven’t seen or spoken to my manager since he walked out a month ago. He’s signed off sick for a few weeks, and should be back in on Monday. In the meantime I am the IT department. Me. I’m it. Or I’m IT, if you’re reading this looking for clever puns (that’s January’s pun out of the way, phew). Actually I’m not quite all on my own, all my phone calls are routed through someone else first since 90% of them can be handled quite adequately by another IT-savvy employee, and all the rest come from my ex-wife asking me for more money . So that’s not too bad then. I might get them to keep routing my calls through other people even after the workload goes down a bit, just so I can get on with things without being disturbed. At the moment I’m testing the new order entry system for our shops, and although progress is slow, it’s being made. It’s a big system and everything has to be just so before the directors will say “Yep, that’s what we want, it works, so we’ll pay for it now.” Every day throws up some new issue, some minor that we can live with, and some not so minor. On the whole I’m being kept very busy, and no-one is yelling at me at the moment which helps, but the work is very tiring. When I get home in the evening all I want to do is kick off my shoes, put the fire on and vegetate in front of a mindless DVD. Or I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, which is always good for raising the spirits.
However I’m supposed to be spending my time learning Microsoft Visual Studio. Although I have been doing some reading, it’s admittedly been a bit half-hearted. Again, slow progress, but progress nonetheless.
Ho hum. See you next week, heheh.