I’ve been attending some management training course at work the last few weeks. The course will hopefully enable me to be in a position to apply for supervisory and management roles in the future – something that I am not interested in at this moment in time, but the idea of more money in my pay packet and hitting people with big sticks may be attractive one day.
Up until now, the course has been quite good, even interesting in places – I was bored today though. A lot of this weeks session covered meetings; why we should have them, why we shouldn’t, who should attend the meetings, how they shouldn’t, blah blah blah… The one highlight of the day was watching some training video featuring John Cleese. Apparently it’s quite a famous tool used by managers and trainers.
As promised, a clip of a Bath City goal at Cambridge City from last month – the game I was on the camera for. If you like what you see, I am available for weddings, parties and “private” home movies :o)
I dragged myself out of bed at this horrible time to watch the F1. If everything goes to plan, the young English driver, Lewis Hamilton, could win the championship in China today. It’s very early on in the race, but instead of going back to bed and missing the finale, I thought I would do something constructive and blog.
Yesterday, I made the trip towards the south coast to watch Bath City take on Havant and Waterlooville (what a name!). The game was dire. You could say I ‘havant’ seen a worse performance in ages. The referee was also terrible – one of the worst we have had in ages. City fans are normally quite placid, but the moron in the black yesterday really incited the supporters. The ref may have been poor, but the players were worse and cannot complain about losing 1-0.
Leeds continued their marvellous start to the season, and beat Yeovil 1-0; leaving it late again, grabbing a cheeky goal – are we ManU in disguise? Dennis Wise has to be commended. He has, indeed, given Leeds the best start to a season in the clubs history… In 1973/4, we saw Leeds start the season WWWWWWWDWD. This season has seen WWWWWWWDWW – well done boys. Critics could argue that the opposition has been different – Arsenal, Spurs and ManU, as opposed to Oldham, Gillingham and Yeovil – never mind, hey.
I finally received my insurance payout from the MoreThan dog. In case you have forgotten, back in August I had a little mishap involving a glass of beer and my laptop. Suffice to say, my old machine is now in Lappy Heaven.
The payout was rather generous – £550 (although I did have to fork out £100 excess). The credit was in a form of a voucher for PC World. I eagerly walked down to the shop, clutching my voucher. As Homer Simpson would put it “I was like a kid in some kind of a store”.
I found a lovely Compaq laptop for only £400 – miles better than my last machine in every possible way – apart from an annoying little application known as Windows Vista, which came pre-loaded; I can live with that, after-all, I’ll have to support it one day.
As the laptop cost only £400, I was left with £150 store credit. What should I buy? 3 Xbox 360 games? My weight in DVDRs? A whole tree worth of printing paper? A Windows XP CD (to get rid of Vista)? No, I bought a lovely, new “Slim & Light PlayStation Portable” with Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories.
Thank you Mr. Insuranceman. You made me very, very happy!
Congratulations to Bath City for showing everyone a perfect example of “Men against boys” and giving the “students” of Team Bath a lesson in football. City beat the Tax Burden 3-0 in the Somerset Cup, last night; a competition not rated by City fans, although a favourite of the university team – they are, after-all, the current holders (not anymore!). Still, City are through to the second round of a cup they don’t give a damn about, while Tax have crashed out of their precious competition.
Its funny – in Team Bath’s short history, they have never once managed to beat Bath City in a first team fixture (and even last night City fielded a weakened side to Tax’s first choice outfit). Rather strange this, as I thought they were meant to be rather good. Maybe the government will enforce a tax hike and give the Team Bath management a boost to the transfer kitty?
We were speculating at work what clubs are actually awarded for winning the Somerset Cup. I think this pitchfork is a fitting prize.
Also, many congrats to Leeds who proved, when given a competent, unbiased referee who has been given the gift of sight (unlike last Saturday) they can continue to win games. A marvellous 1-0 win away to Oldham puts The Whites just 4 points off a play off place, 6 points off 2nd spot and only 9 points away from the top of the league – not bad for a team starting with a -15 deficit.
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