stuff – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Sat, 21 Dec 2013 18:03:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg stuff – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 On the sixth day of advent: a reduction in my carbon footprint https://shepline.com/2013/12/06/on-the-sixth-day-of-advent-a-reduction-in-my-carbon-footprint/ https://shepline.com/2013/12/06/on-the-sixth-day-of-advent-a-reduction-in-my-carbon-footprint/#respond Fri, 06 Dec 2013 18:48:32 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=5897 I’m on holiday! Oh yeah! 😀

It’s been a long ol’ week, and not just because of the second 10-hour day at work, but its over now, and I’ve even got an old office chair I was able to take home with me in order to fulfill the requirements of the homework setup…

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I’ve also now applied for my bus pass. Work offer an interest-free loan system so that the cost of the annual season ticket – a MegaRider Gold Plus with Oxford SmartZone – is spread out across the year and taken monthly directly from my salary. Hopefully it should arrive sometime next week when I’m on holiday, ready for my final week’s work of the year.

I’m still coming to terms with the not being able to drive the car (which I am still the policy holder on my insurance for but not a named driver on!), but I am also kind of looking forward to the adventure. I should be able to further smash my reading targets for the next year, and hey, my climate footprint will be going down. Who knows, it could be fun… (well until I’m standing in the rain and the dark at a lonely bus stop…)

]]> https://shepline.com/2013/12/06/on-the-sixth-day-of-advent-a-reduction-in-my-carbon-footprint/feed/ 0 On the fifth day of advent: a long day https://shepline.com/2013/12/05/on-the-fifth-day-of-advent-a-long-day/ https://shepline.com/2013/12/05/on-the-fifth-day-of-advent-a-long-day/#respond Thu, 05 Dec 2013 23:33:09 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=5895 Worked a 10-hour day today, thanks to Emma kindly dropping me off at work and then collecting me again at the end of the day. What it did mean though, is that instead of working my normal 8:30 to 4:30 hours, in order to fit in with Emma’s 8 till 5, I ended up at my desk from 7:30 to 5:30…

Still, I feel a bit more confident about things now. My boss has been brilliant about my news and is supporting the idea that I should be able to work from home home more regularly to complement me getting the bus mostly. And I’ve resolved getting to band. Neil, our new conductor, lives, like our last two out near Northampton and is able to drop by and collect me on the way to band so that’s good.

Something that I did find a bit much to deal with today was the bombshell news that my brilliant boss is not going to be my boss for much longer. Come February she’s leaving us for a new job elsewhere. For me, this is just at the point when I really glad that with things how they are, that I had a nice supportive boss. I really didn’t deal with that very well at all, and all but burst into tears in her office! Which was okay, because she is understanding like that.

 

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