I realise I've neglected posting for the last week, but it's been a bit manic. Work has been a total nightmare - I've inherited a project I shouldn't be working on but only took on cause J left and no one else was able to manage it. To be fair it was too much for him on his own too. It'd be too much for me on my own, so luckily I'm not, but I'm the only one with the experience/history to have a hope of fathoming out some of the issues. And there are lots of them. The main one is that it will never work within the timelines that apparently cannot change. So I'm fecked before i start. Anyway to make matters worse my car died on Friday night half way home from youth group. I managed to stop it under a street light by the side of the N11 and waited just under an hour for the AA. I'd been meaning to cancel my platinum lloyds account as I didn't see why I was paying for it but you get free AA and travel insurance and it worked perfectly. I wasn't convinced it would in Ireland (even though I asked them when I moved) but it was an excellent service. Called Dublin, got put through to someone french as I didn't have a local policy, they knew who I was from my sort code/account, took the details and forwarded back to Dublin, who rang back to confirm someone was on their way.
So I need a new car. The guy who rescued me was a VW dealer and even hearing the Ford discount suggested I come in for a chat, so I did on Sat. Interesting, am tempted by a 2nd hand VW. They'll call tomorrow to let me know what they'll give for the current one so will see how it compares to Ford.
M was ill over the weekend, he was very clingy on Friday afternoon and had a temp. Never seen him like that. Just wanted to sit and be cuddled. He slept OK and temp was down a bit on Sat then on Sat afternoon he just snapped out of it and was back to normal. Slept really badly sat night though so poor S slept in the spare room with him. He was on good form today though which is good.
The new PVR is well on the way to working - had a big fright when I first put it together as it did nothing. Completely nothing. It's all new to the point Idont have any spare bits I could swap out to find the problem but I got a speaker from an old case to see if it did diagnostic beeps, which it did although it did something that wasn't in the poxy manual. So I got bored and took a mem stick out and it turned on fine. Swapped the sticks and it still worked. It even works with both in if it's in single channel mode, but dual channel and I get the beeps. So it's good enough to build and it plays Blu-ray disks (well the one I have borrowed from C!) and DVDs which the old PVR has failed to do. So just got to work out when to move the sat card and HD over from the old one. Need to get the remote working on the new one first and then will do so.
I really am not in the mood for work tomorrow. Sadly I wont be able to drive there anyway so will have to work from home, but my phone will be going non stop with all the crap that's going on.