The 'new' managing director role in the office is exhausting, and I feel tired at the end of every day which is very unuusual. It isn't helping me get the homework project done for the aa, although I am still somehow on schedule with the walks maps.
Seems that this could be the way of it if things work out the way they seem to be going. All my usefu; 'production' time will be these evenings, and if I'm not careful Tx and I will only be going to bed together once a week!
I am still of course loving every minute of it, but the amount of silly little things I am trying to sort is taking all my time.
Yesterday for instance, I went over to Portsmouth for a meeting with the sustainable transport officer to discuss the new cyclemap they want. The GIS data they sent me to plot on the database turns out to be out of date and inaccurate. I have now attended three of these meetings and each time have met different council personnel and had to re-invent the wheel each time. I took the train, which I enjoyed, and ths took just about an hour. Add the taht half an hour cycling from the office back home to get to the station round the corner. Then an hour in Portsmouth, and an hour tweny back home.
And a complete waste of time. I left suggesting they actually decided what they want on the map and I'll work out how best to do it.
Tina is turning out to be fantastic. Not just good at the job and with impressive skills (she's teaching me a lot about CS3 already) but also great company, very consciencious, very smily easy peasy. A really good choice. I just hope she doesn't find us all a bit too amateurish.
But now there are problems with MPs timekeeping. She disappears off for VERY long periods, and spent most of Wednesday on the Schul magazine she publishes from home.
And people who don't pay us. And people who ring up wanting money. And no teabags. And £40 disappearing from a locked petty cash tin? And a van that squeaks.
Three Guides going to print before Christmas, all coming together nicely. A loan that still ahsn't been drawn down until we visit the solicitor next Tuesday.
An invitation to tender for running the New Forest Tourism Association next year. Agreement from ABP that we can install exhibition stands and more poster sites across the cruise terminals.
An invitation to speak at a Cruise Partnership launch on the QE2 this afternoon.
Too many things.
A birthday party here tomorrow afternoon. Smoke escaping from the fire in the lounge into our bedroom. Lights dangling from the loft ceiling. A budget to plan for the PCC meeting on Monday evening.
Suggestions and ideas invited for how we should consider cataloguing and recording JF's artworks. yera by year synopses to prepare for the website in advance of the Media Archive launch at Christmas.
Oh yes. Christmas...
I refuse to rant hear about how shit this has become.
Sleep.