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Date: 27 January 2006 19:05:20
Made it to the end of the week (and the fortnight)! Last week (and a bit of the week before) consisted of having Japanese colleagues from our mother company with us. It was interesting, intense, and involved lots of late nights (and a couple of meals out). There was also an Audit. It went reasonably well, but involved lots of stress on my part. Then there was this week, when we were coping with the fall out from the bombshell announcement that the really major project that I'm working on that will secure the future of our manufacturing plant in the medium to long term, that is the be all and end all of the business now needs to start production in August, rather than December. This means that I have 18 months work to do in the next 6 months, rather than the next 12.
I am mildly stressed.
I will be spending the month of April in Japan with a Production Supervisor, some Technicians, some Operators, a translator and a couple of Engineering types. I'm the babysitter Project Manager. Ummmm.
Anyway, I finished at 1.30pm today (technically we all finish at 1pm on Friday*) which is really good going for me. Made it into town in time to get over to M&S to pick up a couple of bra's - I bought one the other week which is really comfy and lovely, and tried to go on the M&S website to buy a couple more in different colours and get them delivered, but it wasn't listed. hmph. Anyway, I'm really happy because I walked in and got the right colours in the right size. Then went over to my Alexander lesson, which made me feel much better (have had achey sore joints a lot this week), and picked up Mr Moog on the way home. He in turn had been doing the weekly food shop, so now we're home and relaxing and haven't even got the shopping to worry about. Hurrah!
No particular plans for the weekend - Double Hurrah!
Edit 7.10pm: Just realised I forgot to add the bit for the asterisk!!
* It's good having Friday afternoons off, but I generally end up working them because it's the only peaceful time to get on with things that need doing. Also, it sounds good on paper, but including finishing at 1pm on Friday the contracted hours are 39 hours / week. I often wonder whether I'd prefer a 9am start and work Friday afternoon.....