andrewducker | Up and Down and Round and Round

Today I had my 6-monthly review. I need to buy my manager a thesaurus, because once again he used the word "excellent" four times. Possibly next time I can persuade him to use "awesome", "fantastic", or "EPIC WIN".

My evening went less well, as I completely failed to notice that I was supposed to meet

werejud,

cairmen and various others for dinner, and

werejud's reminder text arrived an hour after I was supposed to be there. I'm not the world's best at being at places exactly on time (although I'm markedly better than I used to be) - but I don't think I've managed to completely forget I'm supposed to be at something in years. My phone provider (Orange) clearly hates me, because the phone message that

cairmen left me as they left the restaurant also failed to arrive until an hour after it was left. Altogether a terribly frustrating evening.

The only good thing to come out of it was that Julie and I had a few hours free to rearrange the living room for when the two builders/damp experts come to give quotes on Wednesday and Thursday. I did consider having them both quote at the same time, and using a "two surveyor's enter, one surveyor leaves" policy, but decided that I'd let the insurance company decide which one to go with.

Tomorrow morning I'm giving a presentation on the automated acceptance testing software I seem to have become the expert on for work. Knowing my luck the technology will spontaneously combust when I try to demo it...