A very, very busy day

I knew it… I had been preparing myself mentally for today all week…

I awoke at 07:30 which is the earliest I’ve awoken in many, many weeks (except for the brief hug with Alex at 05:30). I showered, breakfasted and was out of the house by about 10:30 which is again a record.

I went to see a client in the 7th. I only had about a half an hour of work to do there but it had to physically be done at the office. I was installing the system which allows me to work on the computer remotely. The installation itself has to be done there as there are accounts and passwords to enter and configure. They also had an amazing bottle of wine waiting for me as a Christmas gift which I will now use as a sort of goal. I have to get better enough to be able to drink this. It’s a sort of mountain peak to strive towards.

I then went to see my client in the 16th where I knew I would be working for the rest of the day. They had been patiently waiting for me to come to the office and the problems had just been building up since my operations. I spent the rest of the day working on their computers and getting everything working. It felt great, albeit exhausting, at the end of the day when everything worked as it should.

One of the cool things I installed here was the new version of Skype on each of the computers. Skype itself is pretty cool for people who need to communicate internationally and want to save some money. This company communicates with offices all around the world, including some pretty far flung places, and the savings could be astronomical. However the limitation of Skype is that you have to talk through your computer. This normally requires either a microphone and the computer speakers, which mean everyone can hear your conversation, or a headset (headphone and microphone) which plugs in to the computer. But here we connected up a couple of new Skype Phones and they worked great.

At the end of the day Jessica and a friend of hers met me at my client’s and the thereof us headed off to the theatre in Boulogne-Billancourt. We had purchased tickets to see Bérénice (Racine) as it’s a play that they’re studying in school and they have a test on it tomorrow. First we found a restaurant (Chinese) and had dinner and then we went to the show. I personally found the production extremely stilted, stiff and incredibly boring. But the girls loved it.