Somewhat nigglesome week

Including being IT Support for partner and new computer - which is, yay, connected to the Internetz. This also involved me in seeing if I could convert some Very Old Files so that they could be used in Libreoffice: I succeeded in doing this and later discovered that the process had done Something Weird to my default view in Word (now fixed).

I had 2 meetings set up this week with people who wanted to consult my Expertise (I think), which I thought I had cunningly organised to mesh with other stuff I was doing, like dental appointment.

The first one, who I was supposed to be meeting after the dentist (check-up: small filling required), did not turn up within what I consider a reasonable time-frame for delay without communicating running late. Texted them and found that they had a Family Crisis and had asked a colleague to contact me to say they couldn't make it and could we reschedule. Have been playing Calender Tetris with them ever since (think we now have a date/time that is mutually acceptable).

The second one, who I managed to arrange for day I go in for my yoga class, that I had no real idea why they wanted to speak to me, and having met them and had a conversation, I still have no idea.

If you go on to local council website to see about the collection of bulky waste, it says, ring them, i.e. there is no obvious online place to book this. If you ring them, they ask for an email so they can send a link to the online booking form. I can't even. WHYYYYYY.

In connection with an event for former employees at my FPOW last week, somebody got in touch with me under the impression that my research career was a new retirement hobby. (I just may have done the 'dropping my bibliography on their head' response.)

Also, I had hoped to get an overdue review DONE this week and it's still only about halfway there. At least I could reply to the nudging email from the reviews editor of the journal in question that I was On The Job.

Had an enquiry from a student about their dissertation subject which was one of those topics that I gaze at and think, no, really, I don't think that was A Thing, because It's All More Complicated.

But, on the up side, I did get half of a review written PLUS have done advance orders for a visit to the British Library that I have been intending to do for weeks if not months for next week.