5 mistakes: 23:30 26 Nov 06 – 16:57 28 Nov 06
Apologies for the lack of posting yesterday, however it was one of those occasional days when real life & the seemingly endless pursuit of mammon, had to take a front seat, which as regular readers will know, is somewhat usual. Like all of these things, it all started harmlessly enough. It was late-ish on Sunday night, your humble correspondent was slumped in his armchair drinking & trying to write a post … & in the absence of the heavenly muse … slumped there simply drinking while pondering exactly which name in the Black Book will have the honour of being the first to become aquatinted with the electrodes, come the Glorious Day.
Mistake No.1
In the normal course of events, your humble correspondent would have gently slipped beneath the waves of the evenings chosen bottle … least that’s what would have happened had I not thrown caution to the wind & hit the email send/receive button
Mistake No.2
Those of you that have preserved over the last three years with my repeated crimes against spelling, punctuation & logical argument may find this almost impossible to comprehend, but I seem to have a glimmer of talent at drafting interminably dull bid documents & presentations (cue death by Powerpoint). This is why as I read the email I suffered that sinking feeling … a complete 82 page re-write & a Tuesday 1700 tender deadline
Mistake No.3
The whiskey n’ soda (voda) that had just started to ring & actually agreeing to do it. Actually, it wasn’t a case of agreeing to do it: nope, the truth was that it was far more like a the opening scene from Mission Improbable … “FM, unless you get this bid in, those 4 directorships that you hold will self destruct in 5 seconds!”
Mistake No.4
Half cut, sitting down to do a complete redraft, all the while fighting the urge to write the entire damn thing in iambic pentameter. As dawn broke on Monday morning I had managed a measly 20 pages
Mistake No.5
After no sleep in 2 nights, agreeing to actually get the finalised submission in. This entails cars, trains & taxis … plus a dash across London to get the damn thing handed in to some smug little management consultant in a silly suit (reckoned himself a bit … probably half a faggot)
So that’s where I have been & what I’ve been up to. So, while I have been away, how have you all been keeping??
Comments
Not half a pushed as you but I generally work to the "No I havent seen your e mail yet!" rule!
Busy for me at the moment is tanning a couple of Fallow hides and fitting in a trip to view a new aquisition in the form of a stalking wood!
Sadly by January I will need a job even if its to stop the long haird 2i/c moaning and also to justify some new toy purchases to use in that wood of course!
Posted by: Tim C | November 29, 2006 9:57 AM
My day hasn't been to bad, dressed up in a suit and tie, wandering down the road knocking on doors trying to sell kirbys. (www.kirby.com) managed to book an appointemnt for a workmate and sloped off to the golf course down the road a bit to waste a bit of time laughing at people hackign the balls into the sand traps :P
Posted by: rhys | November 29, 2006 10:10 AM