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When last i wrote, we were going to see Cowboys and Aliens at the Printworks multiplex. It was ok, Graham didn't like it. I can't say i loved it but it was pretty much what i expected it to be. Mindless but ok. I was in the mood for something like that so i wasn't disappointed. I probably wouldn't recommend it though. When we got home, ti seems there was no internet connection. By the next day, still nothing but when he tried to call up about it, he realized his phone line was crossing with someone else's who wasn't even on the same phone company! They all use the same lines, of course. Anyway, he rang BT using his mobile and they say it's a fault on their end. Bloody well must be! They say they'd have it fixed in 3 business days and for the rest of the weekend and up to last night at least, he's had no connection.

Friday we went to the Manchester Museum which was nice but had some missing stuff as they're renovating and doing up a new Ancient Worlds exhibit to open next year. I liked the Egyptian and other civilization stuff the best. A lot of what they have in the museum is Natural history stuff. Plants, animals, rocks, etc. Some dinosaur bones and models and fossils. Good thing to do on a rainy afternoon, though. Later we met up with our mates for a Chinese buffet, always enjoyable. Mostly the week was spent hanging out together which was the main point of the visit. I flew home on Sunday. The flight back was a lot more comfortable. The seats were slightly bigger and a bit further apart so there was more leg room and the plane wasn't full. I ended up with the whole row to myself which would have been nice on the overnight flight. They had three movies but i refuse to buy headsets that the cheap airlines sell. They give you a complementary meal and even a glass of wine or beer with the meal for free, why not headsets? I didn't bring any of my own so i read instead, Cold Mirrors by naturalbornkaos. Loved it, btw! I had read some of them before as he's posted short stories on LJ over the years but some were new to me as well.

I was able to get a wifi connection on my ipod at the Manchester airport and i saw an email from Air Canada that said my flight from Toronto to Halifax was in danger of being delayed or canceled! Oh good grief! It seemed like it was a weather problem so i guessed maybe a hurricane was tormenting Halifax. I fired off an email to my mom to let her know and that i'd call her from Toronto when i knew more. I topped up my phone and called Graham as well. all the way across the Atlantic i thought about what might happen, would i have to stay overnight in Toronto? Would i be able to get a flight to Moncton, maybe? Well, whatever happened, i wasn't too overly stressed or frantic. Something would work out. When i got to Toronto, lo and behold, no problem and no delay at all. Stupid Air Canada! I wonder though, i found out this morning on the news that the flight attendants were in talks over the weekend and there was a danger of a strike. I wonder if that's what the possible delays might have been related to? Could be since the weather in Halifax was clear as a bell on Sunday.

Anyway, the onward flight was fine. I had a seatmate but he changed so i was comfy for that flight as well. Got into Halifax Sunday night and took a taxi home, arriving about 11 p.m. I stayed up until midnight and collapsed in bed but, being overtired, it still took me awhile to get to sleep. Got up about 9:30 in the morning and passed a quiet day doing laundry, catching up on the dvr recordings and doing webby and bloggy stuff.

Back to work today to discover that the new CAO is implementing a major reorganization. Now our business unit just got through a reorg this past spring and our BU is being dissolved and we'll be under the Finance BU in October. Sheesh. I think the under-structure will stay the same, though, so my reporting manager won't change. We also have our assigned seating for when we move into the new office. I will apparently have a seat by the window. There was a 50/50 chance as there are 6 desks, 3 window seats. They drew randomly. I didn't mind either way really. The person sitting right across from me will be another woman programmer from the GIS group so it will be nice having a new "roomie" so to speak. We're all sitting around each other, with just the soft workstation walls between us so it's not as if we're separated by much anyway. I'll miss being able to see the harbour, though, as we are going to be facing in a different direction. The view will be grim really, just over the roof of the upper floors of the mall downstairs in the complex and a couple of apartment buildings and another office tower or two behind us.

I should make a note of the next lot of books read too.
2011 books:
60. Is it just me? Whoopi Goldberg. a collection of her "rants" about people and society misbehaving i.e. idiots on public transport, people with no manners, etc. I thought it was going to be an autobiography. Not so. It was ok.

61. Cold Mirrors - CJ Lines. As above. Short stories by my mate. Creepy, horrifying, tragic, gruesome, and all around good read.

62. Game of Thrones - George R R Martin - First of a set of 5. HBO based a series on it which i'd watched and liked. The book goes into more detail but keeps the main story. I liked it but the author isn't half wordy! for instance, he'll mention about a gathering of people and list pretty much every damn one of them when most of them are never going to be referred to again and aren't characters in the plot whatsoever. Why bother? List a few of the main ones. Instead of saying all of the sworn blood brothers were in attendance, he'll list every one of them. That sort of thing. anyway i did like it and i'm going to read the rest of them but i'll read some other stuff first just to spread them out a bit. The one ebook is a package of four and i bought the newest fifth in the series as well.