MrTom78's Journal: Keeping Busy

Hope you are all well, and haven't been suffering too much trying to get back into work after Christmas.

I've been keeping fairly busy so far this year, not least at work! Guess that's a good thing though, as it means they won't be looking to send me home anytime soon!

I've found a couple of places to move to when I get kicked out of the flat in February. Hopefully looking at two of them tomorrow, the first is about 10 minutes walk from work, much less by bike, and the second is a bit further away, but is larger and unfurnished, which means I can keep my mum happy by moving all my stuff out of her house! Daft thing is that the second house is still cheaper than the flat, plus building work is still ongoing at that development, so I may be able to get the price down a bit!

Talking of cycling to work being quicker, I actually managed to cycle to and from work all last week, twice a day in some instances (mainly due to embarrassing situations such as forgetting my suit trousers on the Tuesday and my keys on the Thursday - got home, hand in bag, no keys, back to work, keys on desk under paper!) It's only about 3.5 miles each way, and 95% of it is by the river, so I can't complain too much.

I also managed to get back to Archery on Friday, indoors now due to it being dark well before 8pm, and was quite pleased to find that I can still group the 3 arrows inside a 50p area at ~6 metres. Was doing that before breaking my wrist, but haven't felt up to it again until now.

Had a bit of a scare this week, as Gemma's company told her that they'd be finishing her assignment in about two weeks and she'd have to go back home! Fortunately, I think they may now have found something else for her to do, so I'm just keeping my fingers very tightly crossed! If not, I might be back much sooner than expected!

Hope to be home one of the coming weekends anyway, so will drop out texts to see if people are up to anything. Hope the play goes well this weekend if I don't get back for it.

See you soonish,

Tom

panto

[tim_abell]

Bless you for remembering :)
Had the charity do last night which went really well and was apparently well received. I'm looking forward to the rest of the performances now. I've heard that the matinée is sold out, but there are still tickets left for thur/fri/sat evenings.
http://www.twyrusdrama.org.uk/Jan05.htm [twyrusdrama.org.uk]

If you were wondering why I'd gone quiet it's mostly because slashdot seem to have blocked the reading ntl proxy so I can't see this from home. That and I've been having such a super time with