Another weekend

worked and slept away 🙁

Yesterday I went to work. I know, I know, it was Saturday. I went for a brainstorming day with my boss, and it was good, although I drove back with a steadily increasing headache, courtesy in part of my side trip into Borders.

I went in to look for this book, Bookkeeping for Dummies (For Dummies). I don’t know enough about the financial side of business, and given that the software I support has a financial side to it, I want to read something that will give me a basic grounding in the concepts, so that I can then build on that with internal training. However, I wanted to look at the book before buying it, I don’t want to waste money on something that isn’t technical enough and doesn’t explain all the terms I need to know about. Couldn’t do that as I’ve no idea whether they stocked it.

I used to like bookshops. But Borders is this enormous place with books randomly distributed according to some whim of employees. I mean, why is starting an ebay shop listed as a computer science activity and shoved in between java and perl on the shelves? Please!

I tried to cheer myself up with a quick stroll round the craft session. While I could have had three books explaining how to create craft items out of recycled household rubbish (haven’t these ppl noticed that plastic bags tend to be biodegradable these days, and if you try to recycle them just for storage you’re likely to end up with just a pile of bits of ex bag?) but nothing on crochet. Even knitting was somewhat poorly served, I thought it was supposed to be the in thing in celebrity circles just now (or was that last year?). Ended up skipping buying anything and leaving in a foul mood, with the aforementioned headache just kicking in.

Got home later and went straight to bed. Got up an hour or so later, but had pretty much missed the children. Spent the evening watching CSI – wish they wouldn’t do the lead up to the death thing, that was what used to put me off casualty 🙁 and then off to bed again.

Slept in this morning, and then mooched around for about 3 hours before giving up and going back again. So I’ve seen my children for maybe an hour this weekend. Pathetic.

And now I’m going to mooch, eat, drink and probably head off for an early night, so I can do it all over again tomorrow. At least it’s only a four day week, so I might make it through in one piece.