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Once again up in the air and Germany looks stunning below me. All white with bits of off white where woodland and villages sit. The villages and towns remind me of printed circuit boards.
I am a little angry at having been called to this meeting. The week before Christmas, I fly home on Thursday anyway. It's always the same, 3 days notice so the flight costs the best part of 1000 Euros. When will my company ever learn? We have had some meetings in Munich this week at whih 3 guys from the UK should have been present. They were refused travel last Friday. Last Friday!!!! If they had been approved weeks ago and booked the flights they would have cost less for the 3 of them than this last minute flight just for myself. It's bad business sense in my eyes but I am in no position to change things. The company and many of the people are so UK-centric. They never think about people flying in from Europe when they book meetings early in the morning or about the time difference when they book audio calls late in the day.

Anyway...the flat that I had my eye on in Docklands has unfortunately already been rented by someone else. I rang the agency yesterday and they said it had gone on Friday. The guy even said he had thought about calling me - but he didn't!! Never mind, there are plenty more flats in London. This one would have been grand and I had already seen it so had made my mind up but I couldn't really commit without having a written offer from my new employer. I have seen plenty more I like, I will just have to book a weekend in January to go and take a look round them all at the same time.

I also found out that my long lost friend from years ago who has been in the US and Australia for about 5 years is definitely coming back in March. This is good news. She is a lovely girl and I am looking forward to seeing her.

Not much else going on right now. Not much else I can think of apart from trying to organise everything of course.

posted by keith @ 08:26 Comments: 3