Ride Entry – 25th January 2010
Swim
Distance: 1 mile
Yeah, yeah. A swim’s not a ride, but expect a lot more of them if things continue as they are. I’ve not ridden a bike for 9 days now, looks like my new job is going FANTASTICALLY. I expected at this point to be bored stiff at work but to have a hundred superb photos ready for processing, have a terribly sore arse from riding my bike far too much, have half a novel already in draft form and be especially relaxed and laid back. It went wrong somewhere. I’m actually typing this from an office in Newcastle, that I can get to my website is a miracle in itself, our security policy obviously hasn’t yet managed to come down on that one but give it time.
You’ll notice I said the word ‘Newcastle’ too. I might have mentioned the word ‘Blackpool’ also. These are places my new company has been telling me to go, a lot. And neither of them are very close to my house. In fact, at least one of them is a fucking long way away. Out of 12 working days with this company, I’ve spent 5 of them away from home with many more to come. What a great choice I made. The being bored bit was a laugh too, so were the suggestions that I’d be working from home half the time, as well as being the last one in the office if I was still here at 3pm on Fridays. They work flexitime here and staff of my grade get to monitor their own and take it when they feel the need which is great because in 12 days I’ve already notched up two days flexitime because of the hours I’m working but I can see no obvious time I can take them.
So I’m stopping in a hotel on an industrial park in West Newcastle which only has a bar and a (free) gym to keep me amused at night so I’m going with the gym for the time being. I’ll try for another mile tonight, maybe bring my bike up next week and try scouting around (at night) to see what riding is worthwhile. I’m assuming riding over to the coast which is only a couple of miles away and then riding up and down that will be the best bet. We’ll see. I’m told there are some very rough areas over that way. It’ll be like being back at home.
January 26, 2010 5:48 pm 3 Comments
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By Rich, January 26, 2010 @ 6:14 pm
Sounds shit. Take some pictures you’re good at that.
By crayons, January 28, 2010 @ 7:13 pm
check about the flexi: I started to build up loads and then found I couldn’t take more than 1 day off as flexi in any month and can’t carry over more than 10 hours plus or 3 hours minus per month, which given as you pointed out it is piss easy for a normal working person to rack up 8 or 10 hours in a week means it becomes an exercise in maths trying to lose them by going in late and leaving early around my core hours.
By samuri, January 28, 2010 @ 10:15 pm
Yep. Some of the guys in the office clearly struggle to build up the flexi but do it anyway and then disappear. They also go on lots of seminars and talks and go to meetings because they sounds interesting. I’ve got over two days now so I’m taking tomorrow afternoon off for a ride and I’m hopefully going to take Monday morning off too.