Sometimes I Hate technology

I'm in our office in Slough, outside of London.

We got in very late due to the horrible weather (rain storms) and horrendous traffic. Shortly after we left home we turned around due to the traffic, and worked from home for a few hours, then tried it again. Much better this time.

The countryside here is beautiful - very green. Lots of open spaces. Much different from the "suburbs" at home.

This trip is turning into a technical disaster. I have mentioned that my laptop, which has everything I've worked on for the last 10 years, crashed, and no one can figure out what to do with it. I have to send it back to the US to be rebuilt, and hopefully they can recover the data, but who knows? All thanks to the Bank's wonderful software I had to download. Ugh.

But how can I live without a laptop? So, I was FedEx'd a laptop from our office in Germany since none of the offices in the whole UK had a spare one. Well, that was nice, except it has a German keyboard, which took me forever to figure out how to convert to an English one. I don't have much use for umlats, but really need underscores; not much use for euro symbols, but quotes and at signs come in handy. Don't ask.....

Then I can't even begin to explain what I had to do to get onto the internet from this office. It's like waking up 15 years ago. Incredible. This is one of the world's biggest banks?!

Still trying to figure out how to put together all these moving pieces so I can prepare for the demo, do the training tomorrow that they've asked me to do, and travel to France and the demo there. Oh well, if it were easy anyone could do it.

Time to look for a job in another industry maybe? Something not so reliant on technology, or one in which there is at least bare-bones technical support.

Oh well.....

Time for lunch - ham and cheese on a baguette.

A.