Ahhh… It’s so good to be able to spend a weekend doing not much. After the last 3 weeks where I was in Sydney for 2 weekends, with all the driving and the visiting and the well… missing out on doing… ummm…. nothing…

So this weekend I had a lazy Friday night (I was meant to go to the Pirate night at the Uni, but well… A better offer presented itself, and I spend a lazy night chatting and watching umm… something on DVD. Saturday was slightly more energetic with 2 hours volunteering at the Archery Club moving paver’s, can’t wait to see how it comes out. In the afternoon I hung out washing, and sorted some stuff to make more than just a walk way through my bedroom.

Sunday I spent doing not much… followed by a little more washing, some sorting through stuff, and then moving a trailer and hacking off some bits of it so that a new towing frame can be constructed for it. All in all it was a very lazy weekend… though I am looking forward to the town archer weekend next weekend. I might even turn up to Pot Luck feast, if I can be arsed to get some food together for it.

As for this coming week, I need to finish off the soapstone mould for the College War Tokens, and then cast 50-60 of them when the pewter arrives. The mould I started whilst teaching a pewter casting class in Rowany is surprisingly OK by my standards, so I just need to add a little more detail, and cast a large batch in the next week or ten days. Whilst it’s a little flimsy for my liking, it still does work as intended so should be fine to be used as a small token for college war.

Ok… So after getting through my first week in my new Customer Support role with what I confidently say was reasonable skill, I was ready for a relaxing few hours at work to work on various projects. Stupid me however though I would take just one last call… stupid me should have turned the phone off at 4pm when I had officially stopped for the day, but no… I answered a call.

After spending 10 minutes talking to a customer and listing to him get more and more irate about a problem that technically we don’t actually support, I was reminded of all of the conversations I have had with friends who have done customer support jobs in the past and currently. Anyway, to cut a long story short, today I ended up having to hang up on a customer because he got abusive.

Got me wondering how stupid customers have to be to get abusive on the phone to someone who might be the only solution to their problem? OK… So I’m probably not the best person for the job, being a trainee… But still, he seemed frantic and I guess just wanted to rant at someone.

That was a dampener to what I thought was a great first week. We’ll see how things go next week. Of course Monday Payday will be a nice way to start the week.

Ok, so the plan is now to create just a personal blog at syridian.com and pull in all of the resources to be hosted on it. I may still keep the live journal but it will be secondary to the syridian.com one and be crossposted from there.

So I started my new job today… It’s not what I would normally go for, but as I was getting sick of the same ol’ stuff all the time I thought it was time for a change. Last Thursday Mercurio was kind enough to offer me a job where he works. Whilst the pay isn’t great, it’s still better than what I was earning last week, and well… The job is actually fun, or maybe that’s just that it’s all still new and exciting.

Mmmm Welcome me to the world of Customer Support. ;)