Week Ahead
I have a feeling this might be a long post...
My week at work is off to a flying start -- they launched the new helpdesk client that we use for call logging today. However, the old system still has far too many tickets in it (around 900) so we can't close it off just yet. That leaves us with the lovely situation of having to run both helpdesk clients (the new & the old) in order to slowly reduce the number of open tickets in the old system so that we can copy the data into the new one.
So, in one short day I have been learning the new system while still handling all the regular calls (a higher volume than normal because is it the end of financial year), figuring out if someone's ticket is in the new or the old system and to top it all off one of our team called in sick today so we had his work on top of everything else as well.
I fly out first thing next Monday (the 11th) to Adelaide and return home on Friday (the 15th). This will be the longest that Kathy & I have been apart since we met, (except maybe the first week or so). I was a bachelor once... in fact I have been living out of home as a single man for nearly 7 years before I met Kathy (as most of you would know). However, the idea of having to suddenly fend for myself is very scary and it is attacking me from all angles. I love my creature comforts, I'm going to be stuck in a hotel room with minimal internet access during the day and nothing at all to do at night. Of course, I really love Kathy... the thought of not sharing time with her at night borders on the depressing.
Yet, this is what I signed up for when I took on this job. I have no idea what I was thinking, it all seemed so much easier at the time. Exciting even... jetting around the country for business always sounds so impressive. The reality of it is just so much less than that.
We're also hosting a combined birthday party for Zac & my mum on the Sunday before I fly out. It'll be fun, I know I'll enjoy it... but there is this nagging in the back of my mind that I'm going to spend a fair bit of time wishing I was alone with Kathy for the afternoon so I could squeeze out a week's worth of "together time". Yes, I know that sounds almost sickeningly cutesy but that's the truth.
Of course, my week away will provide Kathy with some benefits. She'll hopefully be able to get her Troll mage on World of Warcraft to level 30 (or fairly close to 30 anyway). Since getting my Tauren druid to 30 I've started building some characters to start farming (apparently herbalism is a good money earner) and I've found that the trade skill of fishing to be rather fun. Most of the other trade skills involve running all over the place to harvest/gather/mine various goodies that are in short supply. Fishing on the other hand requires only a reasonably large body of water and time. Already my Tauren hunter has a fishing skill in the 50+ range and she's only level 6.
Speaking of spending time with Kathy, I've barely seen her this evening so I'm going to finish up here and go climb into bed & watch TV together.
My week at work is off to a flying start -- they launched the new helpdesk client that we use for call logging today. However, the old system still has far too many tickets in it (around 900) so we can't close it off just yet. That leaves us with the lovely situation of having to run both helpdesk clients (the new & the old) in order to slowly reduce the number of open tickets in the old system so that we can copy the data into the new one.
So, in one short day I have been learning the new system while still handling all the regular calls (a higher volume than normal because is it the end of financial year), figuring out if someone's ticket is in the new or the old system and to top it all off one of our team called in sick today so we had his work on top of everything else as well.
I fly out first thing next Monday (the 11th) to Adelaide and return home on Friday (the 15th). This will be the longest that Kathy & I have been apart since we met, (except maybe the first week or so). I was a bachelor once... in fact I have been living out of home as a single man for nearly 7 years before I met Kathy (as most of you would know). However, the idea of having to suddenly fend for myself is very scary and it is attacking me from all angles. I love my creature comforts, I'm going to be stuck in a hotel room with minimal internet access during the day and nothing at all to do at night. Of course, I really love Kathy... the thought of not sharing time with her at night borders on the depressing.
Yet, this is what I signed up for when I took on this job. I have no idea what I was thinking, it all seemed so much easier at the time. Exciting even... jetting around the country for business always sounds so impressive. The reality of it is just so much less than that.
We're also hosting a combined birthday party for Zac & my mum on the Sunday before I fly out. It'll be fun, I know I'll enjoy it... but there is this nagging in the back of my mind that I'm going to spend a fair bit of time wishing I was alone with Kathy for the afternoon so I could squeeze out a week's worth of "together time". Yes, I know that sounds almost sickeningly cutesy but that's the truth.
Of course, my week away will provide Kathy with some benefits. She'll hopefully be able to get her Troll mage on World of Warcraft to level 30 (or fairly close to 30 anyway). Since getting my Tauren druid to 30 I've started building some characters to start farming (apparently herbalism is a good money earner) and I've found that the trade skill of fishing to be rather fun. Most of the other trade skills involve running all over the place to harvest/gather/mine various goodies that are in short supply. Fishing on the other hand requires only a reasonably large body of water and time. Already my Tauren hunter has a fishing skill in the 50+ range and she's only level 6.
Speaking of spending time with Kathy, I've barely seen her this evening so I'm going to finish up here and go climb into bed & watch TV together.
posted by Paul at 8:09 PM
1 Comments:
w00t!
dood,
Kathy won't be the only one taking advantage of your WoW absence.
:-)
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