My journals from 1984 until now
Monday 24th of June 2002 R. and I are going to Amsterdam tomorrow morning for 4 days, while Linda looks after you. Yesterday we had another argument (R. didn’t like the way I talked to him first thing in the morning, he never likes the way I talk to him). I said I can’t take … Read more
Thursday 20th June 2002 More shocking news at Riversoft (never ends). Yesterday we were told that the company was being taken over by Micromuse (our ‘archenemy’, the company Phil T. had worked for before founding Riversoft). The financial situation is so bad, and the markets so negative, that apparently, that was the best course of … Read more
Thursday 13th of June 2002 The world cup is in full swing and Brazil has just beaten Costa Rica 5×2. As you know I support Brazil! You keep asking me if the team in red has won whenever there’s a football match, because the first game you watched (Brazil x Turkey) had Turkey wearing red. … Read more
Monday 7th May 2002 Hello again… On the day I heard about my meagre 3% pay rise I got upset, nearly walked out, just before the Easter break. Then I complained… For some reason I had been put on a band (they were calculating the pay rises according to which band an engineer would fit … Read more
Tuesday 9th of April 2002 It’s the Queen Mum’s funeral today, but no day off. They have put a screen in Hades so we can watch it downstairs for an hour or so. I think I’ll go down and have a look, I still don’t have a lot of work to do. Guess I’ll try … Read more