Month End

Blimey, the end of March already.

It’s been an utterly mad day – longer because we do one hell of a lot of our work at month-end, so I started at 8am and finished at 6.30pm. Less hours than some people in the company worked, but more than most.

What hasn’t helped is that I’ve had two consecutive grotty nights too, so I’m looking like a stunned primate right now.

To add to the fun of the day, a flood and fire in a BT Exchange in Paddington, London affected the business throughout the afternoon by blocking a lot of our ePayment systems access to banks in London – nothing we could do about it, but it certainly made life a bit more fraught.

Finally, it was the planned deadline for the big project I’ve been working on for the last six weeks. It hasn’t worked out that way, but I still wanted to get the majority of it done by today – and that’s been successful. I’ve got some bugs in it, and some work needs doing still, but the basics are now in place, and we could go live with what we’ve currently got.

All told, a good day, if a manically busy and stressed day.

I’m seriously glad that I’ve got a long weekend booked – I’m off now ’til Wednesday, and I’m looking forward to that time off. It’s been one hell of a long first quarter of the year.