Arrived early on the flight from SFO. As we flew over Wales it looked covered in snow- though I’m sure everything still managed to function. However, nearer London is was completely clear – makes me wonder what all the fuss was about regarding the place in meltdown (not a good choice of expression I know- […]
… A world first ! – I am at the airport on Friday traveling back home a day early due to meeting times being optimal for a change (usually it’s the opposite). It will also be good to get home early as I’m sure there will be carnage at LHR due to the poor weather […]
I’m finding the past few days I’m getting about 5hrs sleep. This is probably enough to survive on. However, I tend to find my concentration (and motivation) reduces when I don’t have enough sleep. I guess this will be one of these trips where I board the flight, make up the bed, then sleep for […]
Woke up this morning at 12AM with a massive headache. I guess having not travelled long haul for nearly 2 months I’m not used to jetlag – thankfully I had some melatonin and ibuprofen to take. Lunch today at Sichuan style Chinese restaurant. I’m not a great fan of the SF Bay area – but […]
It feels like so long since I’ve been here (about 10 weeks or so I think). Our office has moved to a new location (nearer San Jose) so I’m staying at a new hotel. When I got here I realised that I actually had been to this area quite a few times before for lunch. […]
This Week A pretty strange week in terms of things going on plus lots of late night calls with work. Sometimes it feels like I get up in the morning, shower, work, then by 10PM I’ve finished and ready to go to sleep again. Didn’t get much sleep across the week- not good given I’m […]
A bit down today for some reason. I woke up fairly early and was in the office by just after 7AM. By 3PM I was exhausted. Still managing to keep my mind clear and come up with ideas etc. and trying to keep positive. My MacBook Air is slowly dying – not sure if it’s […]
Chinese New Year Lunch CNY lunch at the Peking (easily best Chinese food in Cambridge in my opinion). Getting there of course was a serious pain due to ongoing roadworks in Cambridge – I often think “Shouldn’t Cambridge be twinned with Beirut ?“. They are doing lots of roadworks over a bridge to support a […]
Spent this morning in London, followed by the afternoon cleaning up the house in preparation for agents to come round and value it. I’d just love to be able to move house without a chain and might have a way to do it (fingers crossed). Of course I still have to get round the fact […]
Customer Service (or lack of it) Yesterday morning I decided to take the bus into work, got to the bus-stop and realised I only had a £10 note (not an issue when you live in a big city, but hey we’re talking Cambridge here and to people here £10 seems to be a lot of […]