Frustration and Family

That is not to say that there is a direct relationship between the words in the title – merely a chronological coincidence.

The plan was simple – catch up on the expenses that were planned for yesterday, then do the annual tax return. That would fill the morning and then all would be clear for when the Silver Vixen’s family arrived.

Well that was the plan.

GF logged on and tried to start the expenses system. It was clear that some changes had been applied and a new version was downloaded. Firefox went through the download but would not start the expenses system. GF has seen this behaviour with a previous version so switched to (his preferred) Chrome browser. Again this would not start the expenses application. It’s nice to work for Starfleet – a technology company without peer.

Eventually, in a fit of pique, GF downloaded a different version of Java (indeed one might even say a competitive version) from that which claims to support the expenses system. Voila, everything burst into life and GF made a start on the various claims.

Unfortunately, this fannying about had wasted so much time that GF was not able to do his Tax Return before the family arrived, and so it will have to wait until tomorrow.

Silver Vixen’s family arrived from Buckingham and in time honoured manner clustered in the kitchen whilst sipping tea and coffee and awaiting the completion of lunch preparation. There were various birthdays in the immediate future and it was time to spread greetings and catch up on gossip. Urban-cub dropped by for a while, just to see Nan and have a chat and before she went she took two of the bikes from garage(which was excellent as the garage is now slowly emptying of the various bits and pieces that we had been storing there). The very gorgeous Becky told of how she had just started her new job in the Architecture practise and was looking at her first project – a refit of one of the major stores. We also heard of how Emma was enjoying her new job at Porsche and had a track-day coming up, along with a separate road day and a trip to factory in Germany. Sounds great.

It was a lovely day, despite the early frustrations.