Weekend 18/02/12 – 19/02/12

Not that much to report for this weekend.

Saturday I spent most of the day working, keeping an eye on the data centres and doing some monitoring due to some issues that were reported the prior weekend.

Sunday was a bit of a write off too. Having worked all day Saturday I was in a very down phase, so with the sun out I thought I’d try something to lift my mood somewhat.

I waited until 10am to get out on the bike – and the weather was gloriously sunny with a north-westerly wind. I went through town and out on the cycle path with the plan of going over the aldwark bridge, across towards Boroughbridge, down through Whixley and Cattal and then back home. Would have been around 40 miles or so. Riding against the wind until I crossed the bridge and then being blown home.

The ride was going well and I was just thinking to myself this was really enjoyable and what a great day when my phone rang. My heart sank. It was the office. It transpired that an issue had been reported earlier in the week to a different team hadn’t been fixed by the usual staff and as such as I was on call (for emergencies) I was expected to drop what I was doing and go into the office to fix the problem (i.e – an issue the usual day to day staff hadn’t fixed). To say I was angry was an understatement. So I had to cycle home by the shortest route.

I then speeded to the office and cured the issue they had (which took me around 2 hours) and then back home. Felt pretty depressed for the rest of the day. Crap weekend.