Just got told off by my GRANDBOSS...

...for booking the 18th February off due to it being my 30th the day before and the fact that I might have a bit of a drink at the pub. He told me off for being too honest and booking it as holiday rather than just taking it as a sicky like everybody else would.

This is why I like my grandboss.

That said, I probably won't actually drink a huge amount due to my still somewhat weakened nature... Same goes for the party next friday. I'll drink, but not too much as it probably won't take much to make me nod off / pass out / fall over...

Bored already...

So... first day back at work...

I got in late due to having to come in via the doctors so I could pick up the doctors certificate, but I'm here.

It's now 11:30 and I've only just finished working through my "first pass" of my email - the one where I go through and look for urgent things, delete obvious spam and forward on emails that clearly have nothing to do with me. I'm now having a break, and in a short while I'll have a crack at "second pass", where I actually read some of the non-urgent, probably for me emails.

My manager isn't in, so I have no clue what I'm meant to be doing, as other folks have actually been taking over some of my work for the past fortnight. Even weirder... there's someone else in our office. A new person. We've got a temporary web design bod in to work on our backlog / take up some slack whilst I was away. I have no idea what he's been working on.

Apparently my manager wasn't expecting me to really do anything if I came in today, anyway. I take that as having her blessing to slack off ease myself back into work gently. Which is fair, because I do need to - I'm kind of tired after travelling in and I'm more than a little brain dead. If I tried to do anything taxing right now I reckon I'd probably make a right hash of it.

Bizarrely, one of the emails I picked up on the first pass was non work related, instead being from an old schoolfriend who I've not seen in about 11 and a bit years...