It's a little bit hit and miss - just pull the trigger and find out
It's a little bit hit and miss - just pull the trigger and find out
Had a drastically bad day today. Knew things did not bode well when traffic made me late. I then arrived to find a wagon loading a portacabin parked at the site entrance, meaning I couldn't get to my parking space. Yes I do have my own, with a name on it and everything! So then parked on the temporary car park across the way, only to be told by a digger driver that I couldn't park there either. Grrr! Then had to go right up the road to find a space and walk far to far to start work, knowing that I'd have to do this in reverse at the end of the day.
Work this morning was poor, to say the least. Why is it that when you try to do something, that NEEDS doing, you are always pestered and asked to do other, apparently urgent things? This wasn't aided by the fact that the problem I went to solve, had already been solved ages ago and just not fixed. So all I got was people getting annoyed at me because there was a problem. Useful! Whats even more irritating is that the problem I'd been called away to fix was directly related to the work I NEEDED to do. In fact, the work I NEEDED to do was being done to circumvent problems in this exact area in future! Suffice to say I achieved it in the afternoon, but its only one third of the work that needs doing, and in the meantime the list has just been growing.
There was however, some great entertainment in the afternoon. A queen bee decided to nest on a control board by our mortar silos and was promptly surrounded by (and I'm not kidding!) about 10000 bees. It was very funny to see about 20 builders standing a good 20 yards away looking on with worried faces. The council was called to remove them and a one man army turned up, complete with bee suit! His tactics of tipping them into a box (with ventilation for all you animal lovers)was quite amusing. He then sealed it and cut a hole in so all the bees left outside (who are very pissed off at this point) could get back to the queen. I have to say, it was a serious number of bees, and not something I would have tackled without the right gear! Some people took photos and if I can get my hands on them and call Ed to figure out how to post them I'll put some on the blog.
On another note, traffic this evening was strangely quiet. Home from work in 22 minutes, thats less than 5 songs off the ipod. Why can't it be like that all the time? Oh, and the countdown to Starwars has started!