Sahi wrote:

It's such lovely weather outside! I want to go hiking, but instead I have a stupid meeting at the fencing club. One of those meetings where hardly anyone shows up, and those that do get badgered into board roles...

I hate those kinds of meetings.

It's overcast here for the first time in a few days, although it has been absolutely pouring down at 6pm every day here for a while.

-X

Finally time to sit down and have some breakfast - I've been up for three hours, doing laundry, going shopping, picking up the car - in a couple of minutes, as soon as the current load is done and I have put more laundry in the washing machine, I'll load up the car with empty book boxes and drive out to my workplace - we can use those boxes for customers' plants.

Ended up spending 1.5 hours in the car, first delivering the boxes, then finding out where the driver security training centre is (I have to go there tomorrow morning, and I'd rather not get lost and be late - the damn training will take long enough as it is, from 9 to 5:30. What a wonderful, relaxing Sunday that will be!)

I think it's the longest I've ever driven outside of lessons. It went OK, but it's so hard not to let my attention wander for so long!

And by now two people have assured me that the driver security training is actually quite fun. I'm still not convinced I'll find skidding cars fun.

Rest asssured, I've had one of those skidding courses too (even though there not necessary here). And despite feeling like you do, I DID have a lot of fun that day. It was a company outing, and I only went along because I thought it would be a useful skill to have. But it turned out to be lots of fun.

Well, I wouldn't call it fun, but it was OK, and not as scary as I expected - it certainly helps to have flat ground all around and an instructor giving instructions (yes, that sounds stupid, but I'm too tired to think of a better word) on a walkie-talkie.
Mostly, though, it was just a lot of waiting while the rest of the group did the exercises, so the day dragged on a bit. And my left foot and knee hurt from stepping on the clutch so often.

Anyway, now I can do the last "perfection drive" and then the driving school FINALLY has to leave me alone!

*hellos the Mint from the h-e-double-toothpicks that is work*

Threatened with bodily harm by one of our clients Friday. The fun never ends.

Hmm, we had the instructor sitting right beside us (pulling the hand break every now and then when we didn't skid enough). And we were sitting in the car with the rest of our 'team'. So three students to every car and an instructor.

That would take out a lot of the fun.

Yeah, that would take the fun out of anything. Well at least it's over now. And if the weather over there is anything like it is here, we should have an entire week of sunshine.

Yesterday I made a mistake. A costly one that will probably mean I'll have to go to work today after all. See, I was planning to work from home today, as I have to visit the orthodontist. But then I left my adapter at home. So I only have about 3 hours worth of power for my laptop...

Magpie wrote:

... and warm, almost too warm!

There's no such thing! *hates the cold*

+40*c is better than -40*c. Mainly because +40 doesn't usually kill people.

Hopefully my thai visa will be granted today and I'll be on a bus to Thailand tonight.

*crosses fingers*

*crosses toes*

*crosses legs and arms*

...

*crosses eyes*

-X

I was doing an autumn garden clean-up for a customer today - over eight hours of pruning back her shrubs and groundcovers, now my hand is so sore!

*fires the glitter cannons for magpie*

Yaaaaay!

-X