So I looked at my blog to find I've not updated it over the whole summer! I say summer, loosely speaking, as it was a pretty poor summer, weather wise...
So next week I'm sitting an exam for a Certificate in Professional Digital Selling. Been going through lots of education, so hopefully fully prepared! I then have a conference at the end of the week at Heathrow. Been busy preparing for that too. Busy, busy!
Hopefully a nice relaxing weekend coming up before the busy week ahead! Fingers crossed for passing the exam next week - maybe I should be doing some more study instead of writing this? Time to get back to it then!
Friday 2 October 2015
Friday 31 July 2015
Dublin - it just keeps getting bigger...
Pardon the Ali G pun...
I've been in Dublin with work most of this week & am worn out now! Would love to say it was down to burning the candle at both ends, but it's not. Did sample a couple of Guinness's (when in Rome...), but never out beyond 10pm. I rarely sleep that well when away from home & when I get disturbed sleep, I get headaches / migraines... So I woke Thursday at 4 am with a headache coming on. Luckily I'd taken my CoCodamol, so took 2 of those & think it managed to fend off a proper migraine well. 2 more 4 hours later & it started to clear. Never easy to do a demo to a customer when you feel ill, but I managed it & it went down well, so very pleased about that!
2 weeks off work coming up! It's nice to have a break - I've felt so busy recently...
I've been in Dublin with work most of this week & am worn out now! Would love to say it was down to burning the candle at both ends, but it's not. Did sample a couple of Guinness's (when in Rome...), but never out beyond 10pm. I rarely sleep that well when away from home & when I get disturbed sleep, I get headaches / migraines... So I woke Thursday at 4 am with a headache coming on. Luckily I'd taken my CoCodamol, so took 2 of those & think it managed to fend off a proper migraine well. 2 more 4 hours later & it started to clear. Never easy to do a demo to a customer when you feel ill, but I managed it & it went down well, so very pleased about that!
2 weeks off work coming up! It's nice to have a break - I've felt so busy recently...
Friday 24 July 2015
A busy week in the end...
So after blogging about the Stroke group, some things happened that lead to me realising it had grown beyond me and with time limitations, I couldn't handle being an admin anymore, so I've handed it over to one of the admins that had supported me from the start.
This week has been really busy with work - 2 trips to the office & one to London, plus preparing for a trip to Dublin next week. It's always good to be busy, but with being a stroke survivor, I always worry about the affects to my health. My trip to London was after waking in the night with a bad headache - I took strong painkillers & managed to sleep it off, but they always worry you!
The driving really makes me tired, with my visual field loss, I find I have to concentrate really hard. I enjoy going to the office, otherwise I'm working from home with no one to chat to & it can get a bit disheartening not having that interaction. I have my Spotify playlists to keep me company when I'm alone, plus instant chat with my colleagues.
I moved to IBM Verse for my email this week, from Notes. I like it! It's a really different experience & is taking some getting used to, but the integration with Connections is just brilliant! Bravo IBM, even though I have a vested interest, being an employee of theirs... But I am genuine - it's not just lip service!
Time to do some more preparation for my trip next week...
This week has been really busy with work - 2 trips to the office & one to London, plus preparing for a trip to Dublin next week. It's always good to be busy, but with being a stroke survivor, I always worry about the affects to my health. My trip to London was after waking in the night with a bad headache - I took strong painkillers & managed to sleep it off, but they always worry you!
The driving really makes me tired, with my visual field loss, I find I have to concentrate really hard. I enjoy going to the office, otherwise I'm working from home with no one to chat to & it can get a bit disheartening not having that interaction. I have my Spotify playlists to keep me company when I'm alone, plus instant chat with my colleagues.
I moved to IBM Verse for my email this week, from Notes. I like it! It's a really different experience & is taking some getting used to, but the integration with Connections is just brilliant! Bravo IBM, even though I have a vested interest, being an employee of theirs... But I am genuine - it's not just lip service!
Time to do some more preparation for my trip next week...
Friday 17 July 2015
The world according to Greg...
So, I work in IT for a very big IT provider - if they can't supply what you need, end to end, I'm not sure anyone else can?
I'm married with 2 kids, 2 cats, I'm a stroke survivor, with a heart condition (2 really, but one of them was fixed...) & am pretty tall... 2 metres, which is about 6'6" in old money. The irony of one of my heart conditions is that I need to avoid stress! Not so easy when you refer back to the 1st 3 parts of this paragraph... :-).
As a result of the stroke, I set up a Facebook group called Young Stroke Survivors, which is running at over 4,500 members! A lot more than I'd envisioned when I set it up! It came to me as an idea in 2007 (I think?), when I'd had trouble reaching out to other survivors and had recently discovered Facebook. I suddenly thought it would be a great way to reach out to others who found themselves in the same position as me & it turned out to be a good idea - it's help connect a lot of survivors! I like to do things to help people, so am pleased it has achieved that & continues to. With my work, I struggle to find the time to be an active administrator, but we have a great group of people involved in administering it - in UK & USA. Could do with some more in Australasia time zone, but no volunteers as yet....
So why am I blogging? I'm not sure to be honest. I've heard lots of things about it, seen other people do it & thought I'd have a go? Will people be interested in what I have to say? Who knows! Guess I'll find out!
I'm married with 2 kids, 2 cats, I'm a stroke survivor, with a heart condition (2 really, but one of them was fixed...) & am pretty tall... 2 metres, which is about 6'6" in old money. The irony of one of my heart conditions is that I need to avoid stress! Not so easy when you refer back to the 1st 3 parts of this paragraph... :-).
As a result of the stroke, I set up a Facebook group called Young Stroke Survivors, which is running at over 4,500 members! A lot more than I'd envisioned when I set it up! It came to me as an idea in 2007 (I think?), when I'd had trouble reaching out to other survivors and had recently discovered Facebook. I suddenly thought it would be a great way to reach out to others who found themselves in the same position as me & it turned out to be a good idea - it's help connect a lot of survivors! I like to do things to help people, so am pleased it has achieved that & continues to. With my work, I struggle to find the time to be an active administrator, but we have a great group of people involved in administering it - in UK & USA. Could do with some more in Australasia time zone, but no volunteers as yet....
So why am I blogging? I'm not sure to be honest. I've heard lots of things about it, seen other people do it & thought I'd have a go? Will people be interested in what I have to say? Who knows! Guess I'll find out!
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