Shopping So it is now two weeks since we started our isolation. The wife went shopping this morning as we had nothing left in the house at all and she had to queue for 40 minutes just to get into Tesco. We are nicely filled up with food and drink now though after she spent […]
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CoronaVirus Isolation Day 13
Working from Home So today turned out to be a very strange day. I got up ready for work as usual, had some tea and toast and an orange juice, just like I do every day. We had our team meeting at 9am and then I got on with some work. I carried out a […]
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CoronaVirus Isolation Day 12
Working from Home Day eight of working from home today and mega busy. Spent most of the day generating certificates and applying to both our internal and external services. Also had to reroute the Italian phone system as our colleagues in Milan continue to be out of the office due to the ongoing CoronaVirus crisis. […]
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CoronaVirus Isolation Day 11
Working from Home Busy day at work today with pushing out renewed certificates and fixing various bits and pieces. Pushing along quite nicely with project work as well at the moment. Seem to be able to get more done at home, but missing being in the office. Only 10 1/2 weeks to go! Trampoline I […]
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CoronaVirus Isolation Day 10
Working from Home Day seven today of working from home and it was a bit of a strange one. I worked all day and even took about a 20 minute for some food but just didn’t seem to get a lot done! But looking through all my to-do lists, I have managed to tie up […]
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CoronaVirus Isolation Day 9
Working from Home Pretty quiet day really at work today. Managed to catch up with some outstanding work and got a few support calls closed off. Designated Survivor We have well and truly got into Designated Survivor now, I think we are on about episode 20 already. Trampoline The trampoline arrived today and the wife […]
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CoronaVirus Isolation Day 8
Garden Today I finally managed to get out into the garden and get some fresh air. I cleared my shed out and mowed the lawn and jet washed the patio. Need to paint the shed and fence and then dig out the borders to put some sleepers in – but it’ll be a while before […]
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CoronaVirus Isolation Day 7
Weekend First weekend of the isolation period so my first day off working from home. I made use of my first day off by sitting and watching Netflix all day! We have started to watch Designated Survivor and there are three seasons of it so it should get us through for a while. Garden I […]
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CoronaVirus Isolation Day 6
Working from Home The final working day of the first week spent in isolation at home. This week has actually gone quite quickly and I have managed to get a lot of work done, with today being no exception. I finally managed to get around to sorting out our robotic backup drive and got Veritas […]
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CoronaVirus Isolation Day 5
Wife’s Birthday So day five of isolation in our house is the wife’s birthday and she is absolutely delighted about having to be stuck at home! I spent the night before blowing up balloons and sticking up banners until 2am to try and make it a little bit more special. She’s had loads of card’s […]
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CoronaVirus Isolation Day 4
Working from Home Worked from home again today and had quite a busy productive day. After rejoining my Nutanix engineering at 9am we finally managed to sort out all the problems there and now everything is nicely up and running again. Had four Microsoft Teams video meetings today about a variety of subjects again. I’ve […]
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CoronaVirus Isolation Day 3
Working from Home Started the day with a Microsoft Teams meeting with the rest of the IT team and discussed things that needed to be carried out for the day, including some certificates that needed renewing. I then found a problem with our Nutanix hyperconvergence system which I then spent the next 6 hours online […]
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CoronaVirus Isolation Day 2
Working from Home First day of working from home and the day consisted of three Microsoft Teams meetings, a new server build, a few day to day support incidents and a list made for things to get sorted out tomorrow! Fairly quiet day overall. Boris’s Lockdown It was announced that Boris Johnson would address the […]
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CoronaVirus Isolation Day 1
The whole world is now aware of the CoronaVirus and everyone is trying to keep themselves and their families and friends safe. Thousands of people have already died from the effects of CoronaVirus around the world and the epicenter is now in Europe with the likes of Italy and Spain worst affected and the UK […]
