Frustrated!

I have decided that I need a holiday - my nerves are frayed, my skin is grayed, and my angry frustrations are publicly displayed. I have had enough of the constant off loading of work from the project manager, who seems to be running with a "I'll take the glory, and you take the gore" approach to project management. Which, ordinarily is all I would expect of a consultant - it does their corporate image no good to admit defeat or error, and so they are subliminally indoctrinated whilst they sleep with blame avoidance strategies. But in this case it is really too much - especially when I am asked to account for not planning for events that I wasn't even aware of! HEELLLOOOOOO - I am not, to my knowledge, psychic nor have I been elevated to demi-godhood, so it does seem somewhat unfair to expect me to have the powers of either. I believe that is is fairly rare that I dig my heels in and become obstreperous, but in this instance I am very, very sorely tempted.

On a more positive note I am off to Blighty tomorrow to see ma famille, which should be a great opportunity to relax, unwind, unburden myself of my woes, and take some photo's of beautiful Kent. I might even take a fishing rod with me and go Pike hunting on the Stour (or I could even buy a new rod.....YUMMMY). I am taking monday as a work at home day - my mothers home rather than mine, and I am anticipating a warm 21-24 degrees - not hot, just nicxe after the 14 degrees we have been having in Amsterdam.

I have just finished parts 1 & 2 of "The Last Mythal" - but it appears it may be some time before part 3 is release - dagnabbit! However, in teh meantime I have started reading "Orcs - Omnibus" by Stan Nicholls. I am on the first few pages but so far it seems rather humourous with a relatively fast moving plot. Readers reviews on Amazon lurch between 1 star and 5 stars - so it's obviously a love it or hate it book. I will be interested to see where I lie....

Anyhoo - enough of my twaddle - it is time to depart from the office and go to a cafe, sip coffee and play chess - or atleast work my way through the rest of my chess strategy primer, "Winning Chess Strategies" by Grand Master Yasser Seirawan