Sunday night we had an issue with the dogs, everyone was going to work Monday and we could not leave dogs at home. So I thought I could take dogs to Steventon, leave them their for the day and go to work. So me and 2 dogs on bus, stop at house and get back on next bus and get to work by 8. ok, that is convoluted at best. Ok, take taxi, come to find out it was hard to find cab that would take dogs and it would cost £50. NOT, so I made the boys stay home, Ian took a shift and so did Kirk and life was good.
Everybody loves my dogs, NOT!
Got to work had coffee, induction meeting, orientation, lunch, lab tour, holiday meeting, we seemed to go all over the campus to the same place but never went the same way. And gracious as they were, opening doors... I would always head the wrong direction. Yes doing circles as usual. Really nice group of guys. Thought a good name for our lab would be Inner Connect Unit, ICU, we are all over 50, except John.
Arriving at work around 8am
Being that it was my first day of work Kirk was assigned wife duties. This entailed taking care of dogs, moving stuff to Steventon and taking delivery of furniture. Well they delivered it at 8:30 and called him up when they arrived, Kirk was still in Oxford. Now rescheduling maybe after Christmas. Good news Sue was with him and gave them a piece of her mind. Go Sue, this is Ian's administrative assistant, awesome, she got it delivered later that day. Sue has been so helpful, so glad she was there. We were not going to have to sleep on the floor.
Movers made it to the house and of course put the furniture in the most convenient placement so Kirk and I re-arranged it when I got home. It is nice. I asked him how his day went and what did he do. He kind of looked at me dazed and said walked the dogs. What happened to the rest of the day? I do not know. We made the bed and I went right to sleep.
The busses are something of a challenge also, some are late and some are broken down. Some do not stop for you and some just do not show up. And having 3 different bus companies who do not share tickets makes it almost impossible to get everywhere you want to go without having passes on at least 2 of the bus companies. It is confusing at best. Went to the bus stop today and it did not come and did not come, waited, finally came home thinking I either missed it or it missed me. Looked at OXON Time and sure enough it was due in 3 minutes, ran back to the bus stop, made it in time by some miracle and then he did not see me and did not stop until about a block away. Just one of those mornings. Going to have to figure a back up plan if I miss bus or bus misses me. It is pitch black dark out at 7:30. Also when I come home at 5, not much sun here.
Ok all for now.
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