What significant things have I done today?

[Darlica]

Poor Griffin.

I went to work again for the first time in over a week as I've been home sick due to that pesky sinus infection I managed to catch.

When I came home there where trucks from the Fire Department all over our street. It turns out a fire started in a restaurant kitchen in a building down the road and then spread though the ventilation system to the attic.

Our house is safe, even from the smoke as it is blowing in the opposite direction to where I live, but it's still a bit scary.
If you like big red trucks and fire-fighters you would have had a field day looking out our living-room window. 
Me, I'm more interesting in sleep and have been so all day.

[Sibling DavidH]

Exciting, Darlica!  The grandson would have loved it.

Griffin, that's really tough.  That kind of injury can hurt miserably.  You really are in the wars, as my mother used to say.

I've had a bit more luck.  We were asked to talk about the charity at Leominster Conservative Association, to their lunch club.  It sounded ghastly, but in fact they were a nice bunch of people, the lunch was good and the talk went down well.  And the projector even worked!  We got a donation, sold some handicrafts and some of them say they will drop in at the charity.  Definitely a good day.

[Opsa]

Aw, Grif. I hope you're healing up. Poor thing.

Darlica- Too exciting for me! I'm getting over my sinus infection, too. I'll bet that smoke is all you need.

David- sounds like a very successful meeting. Congratulations!

[Darlica]

I've been unusually productive today, beside my usual 4 hours of work I:

Went shopping for groceries
Re-potted some plants and cuttings and gave them a long due shower
Cleaned the kitchen and bathroom (well I bloody had to after the re-potting business )
Vacuum cleaned the kitchen hallway and bedroom
and last but not least made an illustration for work (the ones they have are completely wrong and since it is my real line of work I thought might as well make one and show them what they could get if they asked me as a illustrator to do it for them.


Yup. I've been hyperactive today. 

I better try to wind-down and get to sleep before I crash and burn.

[Aggie]

Partied all night and watched the sun come up.

Wait, did I say 'partied'? I meant 'worked'....  got back to the hotel at 11 AM and need to crash before the next shift.

[Lindorm]

I finished filling in my latest overtime report (3 pages again!). I have done so much overtime this winter that I actually haven't had the energy to write up the reports for a while, so it was a bit of a mess to take care of. 

[Aggie]

Found out I'm getting a 10% raise.

[Sibling DavidH]

Excellent!     You can stand us a Barfer beer apiece! 

[Griffin NoName]

Came home from hospital with a normal heart beat.

[pieces o nine]

Good for you!  ♥

[Sibling DavidH]

Came home from hospital with a normal heart beat.

HOORAY! 

[Aggie]

Drove myself home after the shift.  The previous two days my blood-workohol content had been such that I needed a designated driver.

[Pachyderm]

Re-discovered the finest opening sentence of any book ever written.

It's from The Great White South, by Herbert G Ponting.

"Before going to the Far South with Captain Scott's South Pole Expedition, my life - save for six years' ranching and mining in Western America; a couple of voyages round the world; three years of travel in Japan; some months as war correspondent with the First Japanese Army during the war with Russia; and in the Philippines during the American war with Spain; and save too, for several years of travel in a score of other lands - had been comparatively uneventful."

[Opsa]

Pachy- LOL!

Aggie- I hope you get some rest!

[Aggie]

Rest?  Why bother, I aten't dead yet.

Depending on the weather it's likely to be one more weekend (the third consecutively, started this field run on the 15th) on this job, then should switch out on Monday / Tues.  I'm hoping to cut the daily hours down from 13 (average) to a more reasonable 10 or 12 starting today, but if the weather gets nice there will be more work to do (wet conditions are hampering access at the moment).