Tuesday 7th July 2009

Chemo Cycle 1 Day 9

I had a better night last night, and no further diarrhoea disturbances, so that's a good thing, but I've had another lethargic and unproductive day to be honest.

The weather here has been torrential rain almost all day. I needed to put the lights on around midday, so it's been a thoroughly depressing day on that front.

My laptop blew up this morning (half the screen has gone blank), and typically the replacement process as far as my employer is concerned is ridiculously convoluted and will take weeks. Apparently I can't just order a new one, I have to take it to a company site (nearest one is 50-odd miles away) so that they can verify that it isn't working, before I am allowed to start the re-order process. I can just about do basic things like read email on it if I resize the windows to just half the screen, although the other half of the screen is over-exposed so it's difficult to read anything at all, and I can't do any other kind of work.

Thankfully I am not in the middle of important deadlines or have any presentations to do. That's the trouble with a big company, there is simply no urgency. Everything has to follow a laborious process, no exceptions. The IT team wouldn't care if I had a million dollar presentation to do, it would simply be tough, and losing the business would be preferable to circumventing the process, god forbid! This is what i miss having been taken over by a giant.

Anyway, I'm not going to stress about it, although things like this go in my irritation bank!

The rain knocked my satellite dish out for 30 minutes earlier today as well, so I was really feeling like technology had something against me. That's come back ok now though, so I'm feeling less paranoid!

Nothing else to report today - still feeling ok otherwise!

Cheers,

C