A week away

I'm sure you noticed that it's been a week or so since I last posted anything. I've been away - I had a very, very pleasant week in Tennessee, with my beloved. And since that's in the US, clearly I couldn't update this blog, else I'd make a mockery of the name. A mockery I say.

It's been a fairly hectic couple of days since I got back, too. On the one hand, my downstairs neighbour moved out of his apartment; but he'd been unable to find somewhere else to stay, so he's currently in the spare room here for a little while (he was looking at an apartment this afternoon, but since I didn't get in until after he'd gone to bed, I've no idea how that went.)

I do have a new neighbour, who I've yet to meet. He turned up at around 6pm yesterday evening to pick the keys up, and drop off the first vanload of stuff; and then returned at gone midnight with a second vanload. I would probably have preferred it if he'd made slightly less noise the second time, and it would definitely have been appreciated had the smoke detector in the apartment wasn't beeping all night - though in his defense, that might not have been his fault. That said, I'm not sure if he spent the night or not - I've not heard a peep from him, though it's possible I might just have not been able to hear it over the incessant chirping of the snoke detector. Why yes, I'm bitter.

And the office move that should have happened while I was away, did happen. Kind of. The stuff was moved, but it's mostly still waiting to be unpacked, and there's still quite a lot of work being done in the office - the contractors are still there, and my colleagues spent a while running cabling through the false ceiling. I do have a desk, and a PC of my own, though I did have to install Windows on it (and spent over an hour installing patches - around 150, I think.) And I really, really need to nag my colleague into finishing setting up the test environment so I can crack on with getting the new web front end written, as he's off on holiday next week. But it's difficult when he's already got half a dozen other things that need doing now - when I left, he was installing a script I wrote on my first day, that had finally become urgent enough to justify the time.