My First Trip: Day Eleven

Disclaimer: This is an edited version of my diary from November 2000. Some information contained may be incorrect, and opinions I expressed then are not the opinions of Aaron Rowe in 2006. I have posted it purely for the Novelty value.

Thursday 30th November 2000

Bringing D... back Online
Last day of November. My first Job today was to start getting everything from D...'s old laptop working on his new one. I got his email up and running, and tried to get lotus notes going but it wouldn't work. The documents went in without a hitch.

Printing Takes too long

Then I had to print J2...'s certificates. I was surprised at how long these took. I only had a small subset to print off, about 30 but at eight or nine minutes each I had to tie up the laptop and printer a while. In fact it took about 5 hours with a couple that had to be done again.

When I'd finished this It was about 3pm, we had arranged a meeting with that guy at two and he hadn't shown up yet. Eventually he arrived at 3.40 D... said he was tempted to ask him to wait outside for an hour and forty minutes but we were going home before then so we thought it best to let him in.

I left the new laptop nonchalantly on the desk as I talked to him about the 15 PCs we want. I wanted to give the impression that we buy from people that give us a good price quickly. He went away with a smile on his face when I told him he had until tomorrow to put together a quote. Because tomorrow we hope to decide who to use.

Bad news from Lagos

I went back to the house for a beer, a shower and dinner at 5 and spent the rest of the night in watching telly, because for some reason I am tired. (because of all the work?). There was an item on BBC World about a fuel fire in Lagos. This was right next to the beach we went to on Saturday in the boat at Takwa Bay. We could see the smoke on our way home from the office. It had been burning since 6:30 this morning. 60 People burned to death - including the inhabitants of two houses in a neighbouring village. That's nasty. Then watching Sky News we heard about that Nigerian Kid murdered in London. Not a good day for news.

We haven't been out at all since Sunday, I realise, and I haven't really wanted to. Maybe we can get a few beers and a meal in at Planet 44 on the Weekend. J2... and K1... are leaving Monday evening so we're going to have a sending off party I hope.