Week 17 - Saturday 25/03/00& Sunday 26/03/00

Saturday Expensive day today. Paid for the new oven, hob and extractor for the kitchen and booked a holiday abroad. Two weeks in Kos fully inclusive. Can't wait. Must get in training for all that free drink and food.  Walked into the travel agent to collect next weeks tickets. I am some sort of minor celebrity. Dream on! Nice to meet the staff who make this travel possible.
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Original Publish Date Week 17 - Saturday 25/03/00& Sunday 26/03/00

Week 17 - Friday 24/03/00

It's Friday it must be Prague. No. Late yesterday Prague was cancelled. I had to change flights again. I now fly out on the original flights I had booked.  Published a where am I for the next few weeks makes horrendous reading. And it includes a week off.  Problems with interface files. Our primary supplier is cocking us up big time.  Promised myself a Guinness when I got to the British Midland business lounge. Did I mention I am now Gold!!!!!  I cannot wait to see my extension on my house.
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Original Publish Date Week 17 - Friday 24/03/00

Week 17 - Thursday 23/03/00

More of the same. Sorting this, sorting that. I amy write a song about that one day.
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Week 17 - Wednesday 22/03/00

A PR exercise this morning. The Regional Operating Directors are here. Some have been converted, some are to be converted. Those that are are not happy, those that are to be converted are nervous. Time to get the issues on the table and address them.  A lessons learned session today. All good points.  I received a welcome shot across the bows (type of thing), back to reality. This is a fun thing to do, I am just being moved around and that is pissing off a number of people.
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Week 17 - Tuesday 21/03/00

Back on-stream today. There are road works going on outside. I wonder what they will dig up!  Getting to grips with my absence. The team are still working well but the primary supplier does not want to invest resources, or so it seems.  Get home, no further revelations in the construction outside, just noise. Well if you can still hear you must be alive.
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Original Publish Date Week 17 - Tuesday 21/03/00

Week 17 - Monday 20/03/00

Malev have changed their timetable, for the worst. Instead of a 10:10 from Amsterdam I now have to travel to Brussels and catch a 10:45. Oh well the flight from East Midlands is 7:30, and I should have an extra 30 minutes in bed.  I miss my alarm wake up 15 minutes before my taxi. I still travel to the airport at the same time as usual. Good job. 1h:45m delay to Brussels. Back to ticket desk. Best is to fly to Amsterdam and wait until 13:10 and take a KLM flight to Budapest.  The flight is delayed by a further 15 minutes, oh well I am already very late, another quarter of an hour will make no difference at all. The flight was relaxing. Off the plane, through passport control and in the taxi with little delay. I start making calls. I then receive a call. Did I get the message, no it was just noise. Oh well there is a bomb at the offices. A what. You heard a Bomb. A 600lb WWII bomb under/at the office. Well that is one way of delaying the project. I had not quite planned for this and have no contingency for this. Dam. I will add the full story when I get it. Where it was, who discovered it. A bomb was discovered during construction of a man-hole in a small park (little green space) next to the offices. It was the company I work for doing the construction. The man hole is about 15 feet from the project office. This was around 250Kg. That is pretty big. It was a German bomb that did not go off, it also apparently had a Russian modification, which also did not blow it up. I don't know where it is now, no where near me I hope. Sorry I was not in the office when all this was going on. I did not bring my camera but I will take a picture in the future. I have to confess that I did not plan for this in the project planning. Now most navvies (affectionate term for construction workers) in the U.K. are not fully blooded until they hit either a Gas pipe or an electricity main. Some experts can hit both simultaneously in a spectacular manner. I have seen the front of a house blown off and trees up rooted in my time. Now these guys really know how to do it and in my humble estimation take the award for being the luckiest and dumbest guys on the planet. Congratulations!
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Original Publish Date Week 17 - Monday 20/03/00

Week 16 - Saturday 18/03/00& Sunday 19/03/00

Saturday was like any other Saturday. Swimming followed by buying stuff for the new kitchen. This time the Oven, Hobs and extractor fan. Saturday evening out with Duncan. Many thanks mate an lovely meal.  Duncan confirms he is a reader of this journal.
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Original Publish Date Week 16 - Saturday 18/03/00& Sunday 19/03/00