More random shit

  Another smattering of random stuff on my mind now I think. Let's take work to start with. Most meetings here at work we don't actually get together in a room, especially since us engineers are spread out over 3 different offices in different parts of the country, but rather a conference call via communicator where we can talk, IM and show things on each others screens all the while being at our own desks. One of these meetings, being a "team captain" as the engineers are arranged around here, happens every week to discuss anything between the teams that needs dealing with. The VP who runs this meeting has requested that we all get webcams for our desks so we can see each other as well as talk and IM etc. How can I pull silly faces and goof off in meetings now? So unfair :-P .

  Another thing on my mind. With the whole having children situation things are still complicated. We know we can't have a child ourselves, adopting is not something we can do and yesterday I talked to IVF places to see if, having had a vasectomy, I could still donate sperm. It seems I can only do that if it is requested for a specific recipient. My wife and I then talked about how on earth would I find someone to donate to, how do you find this kind of person and then go through with it all? I don't want anything for it, I just want to be able to give that part of myself to someone who needs it. It is a strange thing to think about and like most things is freaking complicated. We are going through all of this just to try and deal with how I feel about this and I love my wife for it.

  Next thing, I heard again the other day "I love your accent, where is it from?". Can people really not recognise an English accent? I have been confused for Australian a few times (really people, I sound like Crocodile Dundee???!!!) though most people at least hazard a guess. I did answer someone who also said "I would love to have an accent like yours." with "Well all you have to do is spend 26 years growing up in England.". I think they appreciated the humour in my response. It is also slightly weird to me that people don't believe they have an accent. Hello, everyone has an accent, yours is just what you are used to. Another thought on this subject, if I didn't have and love my wife, I could so use my accent to pick up people it seems. A note to all single English people, move to another country and you will have much more luck :) .

  I've got to do another interview on Friday as well as the one I have to do today. Actually today looks like a busy meeting day, four of them with three of them set for at least an hour. What a waste of time. As I type this I'm sitting listening to a meeting that I will probably take part in about two minutes of just to update people of the customer bugs I'm working on. Nothing I'm going to say isn't actually in the bug and I don't need any help but the project manager convinced the VP we need these meetings daily and so we do them. Bah, so fecking annoying.

  One last note for now, I'm going to start another piece of fiction for my wife, carrying on from the last one I wrote. I want to keep trying to push myself for my wife and this is one way I can do that.