So I finally got round to activating the new theme – It’s a nice, clean, simple skin. I hope you like it!
Designed and built by yours truly

I’m still zooming around the place, like a mad thing!
There are quite a few happy clients about now though

It’s getting late and I’m here sniffing paint fumes (by accident) – the bathroom just got painted…
I guess there’s going to be some interesting dreams then

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Today was again, mental!
It never fails to surprise me just how much one can get done in a day if properly motivated

I visited a new client to see if we could resolve his issues with the system.
We started out with a brief chat about what was wrong – this rapidly became a longer than anticipated list!
It turns out that his email, server disk space, Antivirus, backup and client PCs all had issues!
About the only thing working was the printing
I managed to completely reconfigure his network, and provide info to fix the other issues too :)

I left him happy, along with a promise that we’d resolve the external issues he has with the email too.

Along side this, we helped the usual assortment of ‘problems’…

Upon arrival home, I sanded and filled the bathroom walls in preparation for an evenings painting (tomorrow!) and cleaned out the fishes!

Phew!

Bedtime at last – I wonder the odds on me not sleeping!

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We seem to have a great list of active clients at the moment – clients we get on really well with and can have a laugh whilst getting things done.

This morning I popped over to a clients home to configure her wireless with her new laptop. In the process I had to reconfigure the security on the wireless (we couldn’t remember the wireless key! ).
After I had been left alone for a while, my client popped round the door to ask “are you winning?”
“I’ve won already!” – I answered
“Oh!” - a little surprised, came the response.
“No need to sound shocked! Have I EVER et you down?” – heavy on the irony…
“No, that’s why you are STILL working for us!!!!” – the grin gave the comment the comedy aspect!

It’s nice to be appreciated (like I’d know what appreciation feels like!)

I also had a meeting about a new business idea I have - lets see where (if anywhere) it goes…

I think I have exhausted this months quota of the ‘!’ symbol for this month

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And stuck between ‘em!

I have a client who needs a server rebuild – they need this ‘cos the people who installed the system, decided that they would ignore the glaringly obvious error and install the software anyway…
Guess what…
Every week the problems build up until the server need manual intervention to get going again, no surprise there then!
In the process of this I asked the MD to get hold of the discs used to build the system originally. Wha a can of worms this produced!
There are 3 companies involved:

1. The hardware vendor
2. The clients parent company
3. The Software reseller

Who has the discs?
Well – the hardware vendor say they gave all the discs to the parent company – who say they gave all the discs to the software reseller – who say they returned all the discs to the hardware vendor… The cycle continues et nauseum!
Finally the parent company sent the discs!
Now I just need the application discs… Repeat the cycle as necessary!
“Once more round the loop my dear?”

My client is rapidly losing the will to live.

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Today I dropped off the PC that had a hard drive failure – that is, for those that don’t know, the main bit of the PC that holds all your data.
In this case nearly 5 years of work

Having dropped it off – reinstalled his main application (a software package specific to his industry) and reinstalled Microsoft Office. He seemed quite impressed

He even said he’d write us a testimonial – totally unprompted

Nice!

I also had a couple of meetings, then spent some time skinning this blog.
Try the R&A Blue Too skin (It’s a bit boring at the moment) by clicking the theme selector on the right…

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