Normal Service Is Resumed

After all the giddy excited of a Blip Balloon day, it's good to get back to what I blip most.

Except I can't see the cats anywhere. :-)

Many, many thanks to eveyone who commented yesterday or indeed, just had a look. As I think I said at 500, it's always a nice suprise to login and see I've had 3 comments, nevermind 30.

We had something very German at work today and something I think is worth sharing.

Yesterday was my Project Leader's birthday, which he spent at home - best way to spend a birthday. Anyway he turned up today and sent out an E-Mail. The entire department was invited at 10 O' Clock for Cake.

None of this turning up, grabbing a Fondant Fancy or something from Greggs and going back to your desk. Oh no. He had three home made cakes:- a cheesecake, a plum tart thing and a chocolatey spong thing. Cut yourself a slice, take a plate and let's stand around talking for45 minutes.

While we were so engaged, the world didn't end and the company did not plunge into bankruptcy. This happens quite often in our company and the company doesn't suffer.

Of course, it wouldn't do to present everything here as being flawless. As an example, let's take earlier this evening.

I came home after quite a busy day. Did a few householdy things and then sat down to blip. My mobile rang.

"Hallo Peter" said a colleague "You're on call and we have a problem."

I had, therefore, three problems

1. I thought I was on call this weekend.
2. My laptop was in the office
3. I was at home.

Nonetheless. No problem. "I'll be there in half an hour" I said.

And I was. All ready to start diving into whatever went wrong.

I was met by 8 blushing programmers.

"Ummmm, errrr. Hahahahaha. You won't believe it but... You're not on call and the mistake was ours and had nothing to do with you. Hahahahaha. Sorry."

It was quite funny. Not a problem either. It was a lovely evening to be out in the sunshine. I get credited with the time and a bottle of sparkly stuff as an apology.

Flower in the Park on the way home.