Week Off

So I actually got back into blogging then suddenly took a week off. Crazy times, guys and gals! There was a reason behind this though - for the last week I've been around the country for work.

This wasn't quite as exciting as it sounds, although I always do enjoy visiting branches and going slightly further afield than London. It did involve nine places and eleven presentations over the course of the five days. My total work week could be broken down into its constituent parts; I spent approximately 18 hours presenting, 3 hours setting up and taking apart the equipment for presentations, a similar amount of time walking between branches and train stations, 16 hours travelling on trains, of which around 8 of these hours were spent sleeping on trains.

This does mean that last week, I was effectively paid for one day which I spent all of sleeping on trains.

Perhaps It's A Good Thing

I'm wondering if it's a good thing when I either forget to blog or simply don't have anything to talk about. I typically used my blog as a place to vent about things that weren't going well, grumble about things I disliked or disagreed with. Instead of late I've found little to say.

Maybe this shouldn't be looked on as a negative. It could simply be that I'm happier and have fewer things that need to be ranted about.

Exciting Evening

So while I attempt to restart the blogging habit, I am faced with the proverbial blank page and little to comment on.

This evening so far I have been working, excitingly so, on my paperwork. This has involved a battle with a Debenhams credit card in trying to pay off the laughable £1 balance (the origin of this was that the card got us a 5% discount, the rest was paid in vouchers). I've also tried to make progress on the council tax payments and gotten somewhere, and tidied my email. It's not been the stuff of great stories.

Tomorrow is work and my appraisal; we will see what comes of this.

Absence Not Unnoticed

So the other day while we were relaxing in our comfortable abode, Chrissi made the point that I sucked at blogging. As painful as this was, it was also undoubtedly truthful, considering that my performance of late has been pretty poor.

This does obviously skip over the slightly bemusing fact that my wife - who now actually has the bonus of hearing about my day while I remember what happened during it - is resorting to my blog to hear tales that I am apparantly holding back. In an effort to reinspire the one reader I have remaining, I will resume my blogging activities.

Today's effort was mainly recovering the four posts I had typed out but never posted while I was in Paris. After fighting with my phone for a while to try and get it to transfer the text from the notes to the browser so that I could post them, it eventually gave up and I decided typing them out would be quicker. You can read more of the story of our trip to France below this post.