Decisions, decisions; events of last night & this morning

Aah, well it seems that the wedding of my ex-boss and good friend at Orange is happening at the same time as BiCon 2002.. and as kissycat1000 and I had promised ages ago to go to the wedding, that's what we shall be doing. Sorry to lead any of you on there.. there will be other events :)

Last night was a nice change - I played softball last night with my work colleagues against one of my colleague's girlfriend and her work colleagues. That game is scarily inaccurately named - the ball is as hard as a cricket ball and about twice the size. Luckily it's about as light as a tennis ball.

After some initial fear we did pretty well. The fielding for both sides came together much more towards the end, and our team ended up winning! Yay! We all went for an indian afterwards which was great fun - socialising with some not unattractive intelligent new people (lawyers) which was nice.

My bike decided not to start this morning. Much worry. In the end I tried rolling it down the hill and bump-starting it - unsuccessfully. So I was about to drive in when I decided to pop in to the local garage and see if they could help. They lent me their battery pack, so I got back and took off the seat and connected the pack (a little difficult due to the tiny size of bike batteries and terminals) and tried it again - success, dead easily! And what makes it worse - I don't even think I'd remembered to switch the pack to 'on'! So god knows what was going on there, but it's absolutely fine now.

And.. relax.

My mother sent me an email yesterday which contained something she copied me from an email she sent to my sister. It upset me to think that she thought of myself and kissycat1000 and our situation in that way, but I didn't have enough time to respond to it yesterday. I'm glad I had the chance to sleep on it as we had a lengthy exchange of emails today, which I'm pleased to report she seems much happier after us both understanding our different perspectives.

In other news, one of my work colleagues has dropped off a bottle of red on my desk by way of thanks for fixing up her computer. Oh, and food left over from a meeting meant I didn't have to buy lunch today. This is a Good Thing ^(TM).