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One of those days

12-Mar-2006 by Jodie Miners

On Thursday I had one of those days… you know, one that you will probably never forget – it was all small stuff that would probably go unnoticed most days but when they all happened on the same day and within the same couple of hours, that’s something. Anyway here’s what happened between about 1 and 3pm on Thursday.

  • I had a nasty phone call with Holden Australia who renegged on a deal that we had done verbally and it was then going to cost me $800 more to fix my car – which the Holden dealer had broken – I was not  happy and started crying (yeah, I know typical pathetic female…). Unfortunately this was at my desk at work and just as the big boss was walking by.
  • The big boss stopped to ask me what was wrong and went away to find a box of tissues for me – very kind of him. When I told him what Holden had done, he picked up my letter, took it away and said “leave this with me, I’ll sort them out”. He came back the next day and said that Holden had agreed to pay the $800. I was very surprised and very flattered that a senior exectutive of the organisation should show such kindness and I am extremely grateful.
  • Straight after talking to the boss, I picked up a message on my phone – U2 had been “cancelled” – Wow, that was a BIG shock – I have tickets to both Brisbane and Sydney and flights to Brisbane – I couldn’t beleive it and got on line to verify and yep, there it was, U2 had postponed their concerts. I hope we don’t have to wait as long as those are still waiting for the Kylie concert. Both tickets were my only birthday and christmas presents last year, so I do hope I get to use them before my birthday comes around again this year.
  • Whilst I was looking on the news site about U2, the very next article was about the death of Harry Seidler, the renowned Australian Architect. I knew he had been ill for a while, but it was very sad to hear of his passing. He has had such a significant impact on both Sydney’s and Australia’s architecture, he will never be forgotten. And for the record, I love Blues Point Tower… Today my friend bought me a book of Harry Seidler’s world travels to see architecture around the world – very fitting as every overseas trip I have been on has been to see architecture and my next trip to Europe at the end of the year is no different, I am planning to go to Dubai, London, Paris, Barcelona and Bilbao and have my list of the different buildings I am going to visit when I am there.

So, as you see, each event was not significant, but wow, they all hit me bang, one after the other and had a huge impact, so it will be a day that I will remember for a long time.

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Comments

  1. M. Rain says

    21-Apr-2006 at 8:05 AM

    I could find a way to directly post a comment under you review of Excel comparision tools.

    Florencesoft DiffEngineX has quite a lot of options. If you invoke the Color option dialog box, you will see there are options to hide matching rows (useful if there are a few differences spread throughout a huge spreadsheet) and to also remove existing workbook color.

    When hiding matching rows, there is also a sub-options to show different rows with 4 rows either side as context.

    The user can also choose what colors for additions, deletions and modifications.

  2. Jodie Miners says

    13-Mar-2006 at 8:26 PM

    Thanks heaps for the comment. Yes I was feeling a bit lonely in the blogosphere, but I know I have to persist even if nobody reads my blog – it’s good for me to do. Thanks for your kind words.

  3. Sean Kelly says

    13-Mar-2006 at 3:53 PM

    Quoting a line from my favorite movie, “I guess I’m both happy and sad for you”

    On a different note, I realized you hadn’t seen a comment on your blog for a while and I wanted to let you know that at least one person is a faithful reader of your blog.

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