Adventures in home working

• Working on use cases for VDI #
• Off out for a walk with Debbie #
• Having breakfast with Debbie and watching the kite surfing. Unfortunately having to respond to a few emails as well. #
• Debbie’s gone off shopping so I’m spending a few mins reading Wikinomics on my Blackberry before getting back to the grindstone. #
• Finished wikinomics – a very good book and a perfect quick read on the Blackberry in summary form. #

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• Wishing I could sleep, using new pain killers my specialist gave me today, meant to be sedative, but not for me #
• A long day of difficult meetings, none of which I really want to talk about, and not much else #
• posted a list of use cases for VDI that I am going to be developing tomorrow – CSC internal link – http://snurl.com/1xzzx #
• Time to go read my current book "The Anubis Gates" #
• Just finished my last call with Citrix, almost asleep because of the pain killers I took 2 hours ago #

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• Just got soaked on the 3 minute walk to the kids school #
• Waiting at the doctors for my monthly barage of blood tests #
• Blood tests were painless. No chance of walking today in this rain. So off for a nice warm swim and a read of New Scientist by the pool. #
• Just finished swim. No feed reading today I’m off to Boaters Landing – just over the road from the pool – do do some programme design work #
• I’m lucky – the rain’s stopped and the sea’s in and there are plenty of people to chat to at the cafe #
• Planning finished, still a bit of work to do on durations. Decided to stay longer and enjoy the blue sky and get my Project Appraisals done #
• Decided to give my desktop a treat, after 27 days up time I’ve rebooted it and now instead of 110K system handles open, it’s only got 28K #
• Briefing Q on the programme design and tasks #
• Off to the hospital for a meeting with my specialist #
• My specialist is concerned that my trends graphs showing me getting worse, so he wants me back on night time pain killers and more tests #
• Now at the swimming pool again, but this time with the kids for their lessons #

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• Been to fairrhaven lake cafe, very nice, now off for a long river side trek at the insistance of Tessa and Anna #
• That was a really great walk. 90 mins to get into Preston centre. Now having a rest and a drink at Cafe Nero. #
• Slightly refeshed we are off to the Museum, then to M&S food, bookshops and then we need to figure out a different route back to the car #
• Debbie just rang to tell me that Stephie should be able to do her work experience at the Blackpool regeneration org. Excellent for economics #
• Enjoying the Japanese gardens and the general improvements in progress in Preston park. Listening to giggling kids!! #
• Enjoying a wonderful lunch of hot French bread, choose and crispy green grapes while feeding the squirrels #
• Just finished a really fun science revision session with Jenny, I love these one to one sessions, and making them fun and memorable for her #

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• Walking to Blackpool – half way – relaxing in the excellent Solaris Centre cafe and reading about the plans for a new Blackpool library #
• Listening to a facinating podcast while walking by the author of "cradle to cradle" – business should seek to do "good" not just less harm! #
• Family are scattered all over today, so I’m on my own, but the walk on the beach to Blackpool was excellent and the poptech podcasts r great #
• Big benefit of 12 miles of walking is that I’m in less pain and get to eat a sausage jumbo and cherry scone and now onwards to the cinema #
• Blackpool’s ok in small doses, but I’m pleased to be in the relative peace of the cinema. Waiting for Charlie Wilsons War to start. #
• Now I’m resting I have so many thoughts running through my head. Bit annoyed at having the virtual desktop stuff dropped on me so late #
• Excellent film. Funny, emotional, and very worrying – that a world problem was adressed like a popularity contest #

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• Exhausted, just finishing up a few loose ends – no energy to go swimming – not good #

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• Taken my most powerful pain killers and now walking to Royal Pavillion #
• Spent morning with Tim and Rob on VDI #
• Hmm, having made a big fuss about the way we are delivering our virtual desktop service, it seems I am now the solution manager for it! #
• Finished now off to have a bath and relax reading #

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• Off for a quick walk after a good nights sleep and relaxed with an empty inbox #
• At the Cafe nero now notionally reading my feeds but explicitly relaxing and enjoying some cake #
• Just leaving for Chorley now to meet with Charlie and Stu #
• Meeting cancelled so able to head home earlier than expected #
• Pleased that I didn’t get a parking ticket for parking on the grass at Chorley #
• Just managed to get home, on my way to Chorley my arm and knee were bad, but on the way home it was a struggle to drive with the pain #
• Just finishing off a presentation on eProductivity with Stu #
• not too well, luckily I managed to pick Stephie up from TaeKwonDo – now going to crash – Flying down to Farnborough tomorrow #

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• Just about to get on a very busy flight – on my way to Royal Pavillion #
• Just got home – flight back wasn’t as bumpy as the flight out #
• Very busy day dragged from meeting to meeting by other people, build centres, network labs, infrastructure labs, VDI and more #
• Labs proposal – in Powerpoint at the moment is 70% complete #

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• Caught up with email and trivial tasks for the day. It’s raining so I decided to play wii sports, 5 games of tennis and Fitness – age 38 #
• Reading my feeds at home today, with a punnet of cherries and wifi. The beach isn’t that enticing on a grey day like today #
• Written proposed approach to Office 2 decision support white paper – CSC internal – http://rurl.org/fvq #
• Written proposal for the Benefits and Risks of Social Networking in the Enterpriuse paper – CSC Internal – http://rurl.org/fvr #
• @chieftech – thats the idea #
• Responding to @chieftech’s comments and making a few updates to the wiki and adding attachments to provide further background #
• Watching MSFT Channel 9 video with Mark Russinovich on windows internals. Excellent #
• Making a dash for the migraine meds hoping I get there in time. During the 3 week holiday zero migraines, 2 in the last 7 days back at work #
• Really enjoying the process of evolving a wiki page through the interplay of direct edits and comments #
• Working on Virtual Desktop Delivery section of the wiki – CSC internal link – http://rurl.org/fwh #
• Talking to Dave Snape and giving him some hints on how to use the wiki #
• Off to do science revision with Jenny #
• Just getting things ready to fly to Farnborough/Royal Pavillion tomorrow #

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