Today was definatly a day of more crunching, the shift in the USA I took over from at 8am didn’t seem to have actually focused on the alerts. We started of with about 90! I find it exceedingly irritating as when I am primary, my sole goal is to get that page empty; not that that occurs often! So over the day we battled with this, as well as code deployment, yet still managed to get the number of alerts to under 10 by 4pm! I was hoping to get to zero, but that is neigh on impossible when there are something like 20,000 servers being monitored.
Our office is different this week, we have visitors from the USA, they are over here in preparation for the new Dublin office; doing interviews, etc. So our normal population of 5 men in the office is offset by 4 women chatting to possible employees on the phone. Makes the office different, including limiting the amount of swearing we can do; the HR manger for the satallite offices is in the room 
Ahh, my bottle of Westons Organic Cider is now being consumed as I sit on the train from Paddington to Ealing Broadway, am actually heading onto Hayes/My old work local to meet with friends. I couldn’t be arsed to wait for the next direct train so will wait on the platform in Ealing for a bit. I was surprised how easy it was for me to get an extension ticket to goto Hayes, I was expecting the ticket sales guy to be all confused. I guess more people do it than I imagine.
Time from a break from writing and drinking instead 
So I am back drinking, but now outside the old work local waiting for peeps to finish.
It’s surprising how well my mind/thoughts changed as I walked through Stockley Park. I guess that I do really have fond memories of this wierd business park place. It’s not got much to offer, but I remember things in a good light. Anyone from my old company understands that I didn’t leave for negative reasons, but I am surprised at myself! Then again I had a message from someone in the Accounting department today asking how I know one of his friends, well it is because I work with him in the new job and he didn’t know that I had left!
Time check… 5 to the hour, I guess they are nearly ready to walk the 3 minute journey to the pub! I cannot see them though. Oh and I’m still listening to lots of Carl Matthas’ shows from Bassdrive. I really cannot say how much they put me in a good mood.
Well my mood today was annoyed as per the alerts, but I am still feeling in very good spirits. I think it goes hand in hand with me being more carefree. Now that I have made this change of being single again I cannot see me in a relationship for a while, I am really liking the aspect of being random, and
not the random you have with anyone else, the purely selfish randomness. I choose, I want, I know I know, that it is selfish, but I cannot avoid how that thought enters my mind. And I am sure that I am not alone in that feeling.
Ok I think I have exhausted my typing for the moment, plus I need to roll a ciggy. I’m not sure if this blog post is finished, we’ll see…
I have had an interesting evening with my old peers; we chatted about almost anything. And in fact I was the rant vent for one friend for an hour and a half. He needed to discuss his concerns, we used todo this all the time. We were the ranting pair. I guess he misses that to a degree. (If that is my own ego; humpf. At least I can admit I have ego!) (( Don’t know where that was directed, probably to myself. )) Back on tack I think that he is half correct with his concerns; but to a degree it’s an impossible game, because it is all a political game.
That last paragraph took me a few hours to finish typing, I’ll post it in the morning. Sorry you have to wait!
Cheers,
Dan.