Band practise this week was without a doubt the most exhilirating, freeing, exhausting and in way, moving, three hours of my entire life so far. 25 years of it, there’s very little in there besides my amazing girlfriend that comes even knee-high to the fun we had in the jam room.

The changes we’ve made to the band, which i was expecting us to have at least one or two teething problems with in one way or another have fully justified themselves. We got in there, we rocked hard, and we’ve never ever, ever sounded like that.

you know when you catch five minutes of an unsigned band’s set, and they sound like real rock stars? it was like that…

so… with a few more practises before our next gig [saturday 15th of december, FREE entry with Idiot3 @ Hampton's Bar in Southampton], there’s no way in hell we can mess this up you’re coming right?

In other news since last blog, I bought indy a really pretty ring for our 2nd anniversary, white gold with a couple of really cute lil diamonds in it it’s a shade on the large side, so we’re gonna see if we can get it changed for a size smaller gotta love that girl.

Work’s been panning out… since term started, imagine the first 45 minutes of saving private ryan, except set in a college, where instead of people getting blown to bits, their computers aren’t working right. Yeah, it’s been like that.

Only now, things are looking up, I was betting that the first few months of the job would be hell, you have to imagine a group of about 30 staff and their many classes full of students who depend on the computers working the way they remembered them working last year. when someone else was running the show. in a different way to me. who had been doing it for nine years. and knew everyone. and everything they wanted. and how they liked their icons arranged on their desktops. how some of them actually FREAK OUT if they can’t see where the ’save’ button is on a window… and how easy it is to upset some members of staff without meaning to.

so yeah, learning curve for both me and my technical dependants at work for the last three or so months, but I like to think that we’re getting there now, finding our feet and all understanding one another. I’ve tried to pass on as much knowledge as I can  to everyone – you know, the little things, shortcuts, what this button does, when you’ve been pressing the one next to it for the last four years, that kinda stuff… and i’m happy to say that some of them have taken it on board, and really flown with it! so, i’m making [a good] difference at least.

It all starts to make sense when you get a pat on the back from one of the better teachers for fixing an already existing problem that’s brought the design department to their knees…

aha – and i got the green light for £4,000 worth of adobe CS3 site license this week … as small and insignificant as it sounds, that alone makes my life 30% easier, saves countless man-hours, upgrades several departments, makes several teachers very happy, and should future proof us for at least the next 2 years or so.

considering the art department have been stuck with adobe photoshop version 7 since 2002.

i like my job, when it’s going right

and when it’s not going right, I see it as an opportunity to make it go right again

i’ll leave it there, i need a slash and it’s late anyway i’m gonna bag’n'tag my latest photies off my camera into iphoto

laters!

Benny -xXx-