Obstacles At Every Turn

Monday, 13th September

I should have known when I put my Clash T-shirt on inside out, and then had to change it (which we all know is bad luck), that it was going to be one of those days.  I had loads to catch up on, workwise and on my photography course, so I called Rachael, and cancelled our trip to Tooting.  Still no sari then.  So I went to fire up the HP to do some reporting, and noticed that the internet light on the BT router was red.  Bugger!  A problem at the exchange.

In that case, I thought, I'll catch up on my 'Favourite Place' project work for the week.  When I say catch up on, I mean - start.  I switched on the Nikon, and it went straight off again.  No battery.  For God’s sake.  I had to resort to doing next week’s course work.  The speed of battery charging wasn’t helped by Yula unplugging it, to plug in the hoover, and forgetting to put it back again.  Eventually I had enough to juice to photograph a miniature wooden Paris.

I had quite a phone call today.  Nicola, the agent, rang.  Rowan at the William Morris Agency, loved the book.  She wants a few tweaks before assembling a proposal, and we have a meeting arranged for the week after we get back.  The internet came back up, just as I needed to leave.

As I was going over the road for the quiz, I noticed how amazing the full moon looked.  I ran back inside, got my camera and gorilla pod, and got a few shots for ‘Exposure Safari,’ for next week.  We lost by half a bloody point tonight.

Tuesday, 14^th September

I needed to crack on with the increasing backlog this morning.  The internet was working fine, but the server at 4 Ways was down.  When will the universe stop pissing on my daily plans?  The server came back up, but was on a go-slow.  So it took me ages to catch up.  And I spent hours struggling with Photoshop.  Good job it was a quiet day at the ranch.  I opened up my Safari browser this evening, which defaults to the Apple homepage, showcasing the new MacBooks.  I was looking at a very sexy 13 incher, which you can customize to 4Gb RAM, and a 350Gb hard drive – and all of a sudden it was in a shopping basket, and checked out.  I only went online to write my blog – so it’s all your fault.