champion sound

its been a busy week at work primarily because chancer PM said yes to every application team that wanted anything done and so i had a ton of work to get done in a short space of time. he was bounding around the office today with a spring in his step when i told him things were on target to get delivered and that me and one of the DBAs had also fixed a problem with a SQL cluster as well. in the meantime his own group of chancers are just bumbling along doing something not very important at all, whatever it is.


i havent been in our main office with the chancer and the rest of my team this week until today but my team leader told me that he had a run in with the chancer pm yesterday as well. again in a clear acknowledgement that his own team of 3 chancers (whose contracts he renewed recently) are useless, he asked my team leader if he could do some work on sunday, to which the teamleader, who has been at the firm 9 years, decided to tell the chancer some home truths. he asked him why he had renewed the contracts of 3 people that are not able to do the work that needs to be done, and thats why he was constantly asking him and me, to work on the chancers project when we had our own project to be getting on with. chancer pm was not able to come back with any kind of answer.


anyways, my team leader refused to work sunday, as he and i are working till midnight on friday and all of saturday on our own project, and so its not unreasonable to have 1 day off in the week. am surprised chancer pm has not asked me yet, and i think he won't. i have saved his ass this week by putting out fires at the hedge fund for him, and although he has pushed his luck way too far this week, even a dumb ass like him knows i will tell him to go fuck himself if he asks me to work sunday.


i also booked my hotel in las vegas for when i am there for 2 nights in january, after 2 nights in LA. all that is remaining is to book 3 nights in san diego and any concert tickets and thats me done. i like getting everything booked in advance and organised. its so nice to just turn up and pickup the car and then go to the hotel and pickup tickets from the will call booth. holidays should be stress free, and i make sure everything is sorted in advance so mine are very stress free indeed. just turn up to places knowing everything is sorted.


had a couple of calls this week about jobs at another hedge fund and bank. havent had time to get back to them as i barely get a minute to stop at work. will call them back tomorrow. i am 7 weeks from the end of my contract and i need to start making plans if i can.


football tonight. is cold outside but i think its going to be good. am well up for it. 


today i have mostly been listening to crystal fighters - champion sound. stick with it, as it starts a bit strange but then really gets into it. they also sing about going to argentina. one day.....