The last few weeks have been quite difficult for me.
Work has been generally unsatisfactory as there is way too much support/management and not enough hands-on development work. This was made worse by my boss taking a couple of weeks in Asia followed by three weeks on holiday, and all this at a particularly busy time.
Net result? ultimate responsibility, 60+ hour working weeks and being permanently on call.
Well he’s back now, so at least I no longer have to cover his role and generally having an extra body in the team spreads the support load around a bit more.
I even had yesterday (Friday) off in lieu of the bank holiday I had to work a couple of weeks back. Very nice turning the raspberry off
Good news now is that I have one more week in the office, then two weeks off on holiday. Hurrah!
We’re going on a Euro road trip, in part, inspired by the Top Gear search for the best driving roads in the world.
Itinerary goes something like this:
- London -> Luxembourg -> Geneva -> Nice+Monaca
- Nice -> Menaggio (Lake Como) – staying 3 days
- Menaggio -> Davos – staying 3 days
- Davos -> Baden Baden – staying 3 days
- Baden Baden -> Spa -> London
The six days in the lakes/alps will see us visiting Col de Turini, the San Bernadino Pass and Stelvio Pass as well as many other interesting bits. The trip up through the Black Forest is supposed to be amazing too.
All in all, should be eight countries/principalities and something between 3800 and 4000 km
Can’t wait. Herman’s quite excited too


