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A last-minute meetup
Aug. 3rd, 2013 10:31 pmAn last minute meetup in Honiton with H&P&J, which reminded me that I'd hadn't seen P&J since August 2011 — shocking! After enduring the local Weatherspoons, P&J went off to do domestic stuff and to prepare for J's birthday — complete with an Octonauts cake! — while H&I looped around the hills to the south of town. On our journey we met one of my colleagues out walking his dog, saw a couple of huge birds of prey — probably buzzards — and somehow, despite the best efforts of google maps, failed to get lost.
Arriving back in town, we struggled to find anywhere to eat — Honiton is clearly a hotbed of activity on a Saturday night. Eventually we cut our losses, stopped off at a chip shop, and ended up sat on a bench at the station eating our supper and discussing the dodginess of climbing protection on some routes.
Sadly, in the last few minutes before my train, the conversation was interrupted by a call form someone at work and after the short hiatus of my train journey — complete with a couple of young women dressed as tennis players on their way to a fancy dress party — most of the rest of the evening was lost to trying to pin down an extremely nebulous GPFS problem.
ETA: In the end I didn't get finished with work until 11:40, when the applications guy working was able to persuade people that the problem wasn't have as much impact as they thought. I wasn't really able to get to the bottom of things and promised to take another look early on Sunday, only to lose half the day to further futile attempts to nail down the cause of the problem. Annoying, but at least Sunday's weather is horrible and I'm going to be able to charge my time at weekend rates...
Arriving back in town, we struggled to find anywhere to eat — Honiton is clearly a hotbed of activity on a Saturday night. Eventually we cut our losses, stopped off at a chip shop, and ended up sat on a bench at the station eating our supper and discussing the dodginess of climbing protection on some routes.
Sadly, in the last few minutes before my train, the conversation was interrupted by a call form someone at work and after the short hiatus of my train journey — complete with a couple of young women dressed as tennis players on their way to a fancy dress party — most of the rest of the evening was lost to trying to pin down an extremely nebulous GPFS problem.
ETA: In the end I didn't get finished with work until 11:40, when the applications guy working was able to persuade people that the problem wasn't have as much impact as they thought. I wasn't really able to get to the bottom of things and promised to take another look early on Sunday, only to lose half the day to further futile attempts to nail down the cause of the problem. Annoying, but at least Sunday's weather is horrible and I'm going to be able to charge my time at weekend rates...
