May 2011 Archives

Finally took the plunge and upgraded my mobile 'phone last week. Well, for starters I'd had the N95 8Gb for quite some time now. And the battery life was pants; lucky if I'd get through the day before having to charge it. So, onto the Orange website to see what offers were available.

I'd been looking at the N8 for a while. But remembering the fun of upgrading in the past to the latest gizmo, only to find firmware upgrades every five minutes to fix bugs. I thought it'd be better to wait a few months first.

Well, the N8 was free, on a reasonable contract. Which comes with free text's and 'unlimited' internet (within reason). And I think it's cool Will update regularly as I find the good and bad things about it.

And it still feels like yesterday.

Been digging through stuff since moving into Jules mum's. And I found the original CD that her brother, Chris, did for me for the funeral. I'd done a montage of photo's of Jules to music. It was projected onto the wall of the church, whilst people came in. Not all the songs are available on YouTube, but they were:

Del Amitri - Tell Her This
The Beautiful South - Little Blue
Sting - The Book of My Life
Coldplay - The Scientist

Brought the emotions of the day flooding back. How I tried my hardest to say a few words, and ended up chocking up and crying. How so many friends turned out both at the church, the cemetry, and then the wake. The wake, which I remember little of, other than it was a great celebration of someone's life.

T'is time for bed, and as my eyes close, time slips back to those happy memories. It's not saying I'll never love again, but I've lost the love of someone I never imagined I would.

Woke up at 1am this morning, bent double in pain. It's like someone's been kicking me in the groin. Not good. Even less helpful was A&E. A 4 hour wait put me off, and the nurse suggested going home, taking painkillers, and making an appointment with my GP.

Ringing them at 08:30 found all today's appointments gone. So back to the emergency surgery at 5pm. The doctor couldn't make a diagnosis, so more painkillers and antibotics. Lots of samples sent away for tests. I'll hopefully find out what it is on Thursday. In the meantime, lots of rest and fluids.

And another workload forecast over and done with. It's a 6-8 week long exercise, planning the resource requirements for the company business plan. Culminating in a day with everyone responsible in a room, agreeing or disagreeing with the numbers.

I quite enjoy facilitating the day, hopefully without too many problems. And since starting 3-4 years ago, it's now a smooth running event. Just got to type up the actions, of which there was a LOT this time!

Trid to blog with my old Nokia N95 8Gb, and it never really worked. And besides, the tariff didn't allow for lots of data.

So, with the arrival of a Nokia N8 with full qwerty keyboard (thanks to James for pointing that one out!), my mobile blogging can restart with a vengeance.