Hi everyone
not been around much - call of duty of which more later.
Columba
I hope you get through ok - there was a lot of water around as my train meandered its way home on Thursday evening from Bristol - and it's rained alot more since then!!!
MIck6
hope you get away as well and not get snowed in- otherwise you will be producing even more data from your generator powered toys !!!
Not good losing pwer like that but you sound as if you have some back up systems in place. I am just pleased that there has been no northly air flow here otherwise we would have been feet deep in snow with all this rain. Yesterday was the worst here and I am very pleased to be living near the top of a hill!!
Impey
you are running further than I am with all those 5+ milers
K2
Hope you weren't standing on the corner waiting for me - did you get me email??
Graham
yes I have run that race in the distant past when it was on the roads and Saltwell Bank was a killer!!!
A good time for the conditions and a toughie course- ideal preparation for Oz - not!!!
Ceal
sorry to hear about Betsy but that is a good age to have it all done - they recover so much quicker. Matilda had a similar op about 12 months ago and she was soon recovered.
Nice pacy runnning going on!!
NZC
that was a good 3000m time in hot conditions which always seem worse on a track anyway - the running surface always seems to radiate the heat back up !!
Pammie
I imagine it is fairly hectic at work just now!!
I had a very successful trip away and used the long journey time on the train home productively to finish reports and recommendations. The project is a complex one involving the refurbishment and redevelopment of a retail park around tenants who need to be kept trading and I had spent a lot of time negotiating with each to ensure that all their critical dates were met and incorporating them into a detailed programme.
so I was pertty pleased with myself on Friday morning as I finalised things. Then right on 1200 one of the tenants, backed (or insitigated!!) by their solicitors and agents, decided that their position on the critical path was too good an opportunity to let pass without trying to extort a huge sum of money - nearly £1/4 million - or they wanted to be moved from the position in the programme allocated to them!! Oh and they needed a response by close of business that day figuring no doubt that everyone would be out at pre Christmas drinks, lunches etc
Client was in despair so I donned my Superman cape, revised the programme, agreed some very minor costs with the contractor for the changes, redrafted the contract conditions, drew a deep breath and....................sat back until almost 5pm whereupon I issued the revised programme to the objecting tenant asking them to come back with any comments before close of business - oh and to say that a change back to the original would now involve large additional costs which would be charged against him. Got the b*stards!!!!!!
After that I had to prepare the awards for the hash Xmas party that evening. These very prestigious awards, known as the Golden Balls, which I had instigated last year, involve writing H4 Xmas 2012 on 30 gold tree decoration balls and then thinking of something to say about each. Categories included
- best excuse for not attending a run
- weakest excuse for not running on a rainy night
- best impersonation of a police officer
- best window shopper
- choir of the year
and so on so you can see that athletic prowess did not feature too highly
Edited: 23/12/2012 at 12:48
