Sunday morning
Sunday, Sept. 04, 2005
Yet another below average week.
Monday started with a nervous churning in the gut as always, but I posted my last entry monday, the one with all the pics. Oh, btw kiwi, if you want to look at the pics without having to sit there and swear at me, you can use the flickr link at the bottom. There are smaller pics there, haha.
Going to work these days doesn't raise any feelings of joy or excitement like it used to, but then again, how many of you can't wait to jump in the car and head in each day? I bet there aren't too many.
Tuesday morning I woke up to my neck being locked up on the right hand side, so I called in to work and told them it was in my best interest not to come in and it wasn't probably a good idea to try and drive and sit in front of a PC all day. I booked an appointment at the Chiropractor later that afternoon where I had my neck cracked and stretched to relieve some of the tightness.
Back to work on Wednesday where I had to play catch up from the day before. Because I haven't got anyone to cover me when I am away, customers go un attended and many phone calls and emails must be returned in order to keep the peace. Keep in mind this is also all being done while having a neck that can't be turned around. Wednesday was also end of month, so it turned into a 13 hour long day, which at the end of it I had a mind numbing, dizzy headache where I almost passed out. Not good at all.
Thursday presented a new set of problems. A customer dumped on me bigtime, so we went into damage control, sent our sales guy around to visit them and generally copped a bashing for what can only be described as crap workmanship. I unfortunately was left to clean up the mess, and to be honest it is probably an issue that has left permanent scars against our reputation and future dealings with this customer.
Friday was a day to look forward to. I actually got some product moved out the door that had caused some grief earlier in the week. Just have to wait until monday to see what the customer thinks of it and hope that they don't find anything wrong with it. Cross your fingers. I headed off early on Friday afternoon for another visit to the Chiropractor to have another neck cracking and a bit more therapy to get me back on track again. It looks as if it is about 90% back to what it should be, but I will be making another visit back later next week for some more follow up treatment. I just have to make sure I keep up my neck and shoulder exercises as well as using an ice pack at night.
Friday night was a good ending to the below average week. A group of fellow ex, current and soon to be ex-co-workers went out for a meal and a few drinks at an Irish pub on the edge of town. My appetite has somewhat diminished this week due to the neck pain, but my liquid appetite wasn't affected in the slightest. Got home sometime around 1am (early I know) and woke up with a headache yesterday morning. Probably more to do with the sore neck than the amount of alcohol consumed.
Saturday was spent lazing around, made a wander to the shops to find my dad a fathers day present, had a bust up with my sister over the whole what to buy him, so I settled on a gift voucher and left the stupid cow on her own to find her own way home. Some lame excuse about not giving a shit about her father and the fact that she is a tightwad and doesn't want to spend money on people for no return. Bah.
Today is a lunch with the rellies at a local football club, and later today is off to dinner at my dad's house for a catch up and to wish him a happy fathers day.
For a below average week, it was kinda jam packed, but not exciting in the least.
I'm not gonna say much about the whole Hurricane Katrina thing, but will say that the whole situation is depressing and what we are seeing on the news here is quite astounding. Very sad indeed.
Anyway, enough for now. I shall go enjoy the rest of my weekend before next week comes around and it all goes to shit again.
Optimistic hey?
Ah well.
Catch ya later
~MJ~
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