Nothing is impossible for an engineer - Vague Update

12:55 pm - Vague Update

I'm back at work for a short three-day-week at the moment, so today is my virtual Friday! I'm looking forward to being back at home with Amelia. Looking after Evie was always pretty hard work, but Amelia ambles around and gurgles. As long as she has plenty of toys to play with and the odd chunk of bread to munch on she's happy. So tomorrow Trash and I can sneak out shopping for a bit with Amelia in tow.

Coming back to work has been something of a tiring shock. I went to bed around 20:00 last night. I also had to contend with 15,865 emails waiting for me when I got back. Fortunately, most were error emails, which had been sorted into relevant folders by Outlook rules. Generally, unless you're actually there when a process is spewing out error emails, they have little historical value. Sadly, there were still 656 'real' emails waiting in my Inbox to be sifted through though.

My motorbike is back alive as well. After a couple of months with the clever Stuart Rafferty she's all fixed up and back on the road. The weather is a bit nicer to, so I've been riding her to work and back this week. It'll soon be spring. It ended up costing me almost exactly the insurance settlement. They gave me £2000, I bought the 'wreck' for £700, and it cost £1300 to be repaired. I couldn't see this in purely monetary terms though. That VFR is a beautiful example of the final itteration of the VFR 750 design, before Honda made a hash of things with the distinctly inferior VFR 800. It is the closest thing to perfection on two wheels I'll ever ride. It would have been a crime against motorcycling to send that bike to the scrapyard.