And I can't sail my yacht

Things I should have been doing this lunchtime instead sitting in the sunshine:

• Rewriting my CV
  
• Designing a new portfolio
  
• Doing new exciting artwork for my portfolio
  
• Setting up sponsorship page for Race for Life
  
• Actually doing some training for Race for Life (although that's a bit redundant as there's no way I'll be able to run the bloody thing now)
  
• Replacing the paper bit of my driving licence (at one point that was 'finding the paper bit of my driving licence but it's a bit late now)
  
• Renewing prescription prepayment certificate and stocking up on medications
  
• Shopping for holiday clothes
  
• Shopping for veggies in the market
  
• Working out where to go and what to see in San Francisco (including where to take my Dad for birthday meal)
  
• Writing postcard 'from London' to my extra Nan
  
• Writing up London trip
  
• Writing. Stuff. In general
  
• Making all kind of life-changing decisions

Things I have to do this afternoon instead of sitting in the sunshine:

• Work

I'm going to go and sulk now. And maybe see if I can hire a flunky to do all the boring stuff...

In other work news NASA replied and thanked me for bringing a broken bit of their website to their attention. From now on I shall be referring to myself as their technical consultant.

Also, may have to write an iPhone/iPad app for work. Should be easy, right?

Also, went to the races (with work) on Wednesday and managed to back a winner in every single race by the simple tactic of betting on nearly everything running. Obviously this means I still ended up losing money overall, but I did get to dance around the place waving winning slips at mpore sensible people who had bet and lost in the more conventional, one-horse-a-race manner. Which is after all the point of racing. Also, in monetary terms consumed far more free food and booze than I actually lost on the horses, so I count that as a win overall.

Oh, and I will be in London on Saturday 19th (and possibly Sunday 20th) June, as work are shipping me down for the award ceremony on the Friday night (and paying for a hotel too) and have kindly bought an open return ticket so I can stay down and play for the weekend. We're going elephant hunting, so they'd better still be there!

That's a lot of free work stuff, isn't it? Still not given me a payrise yet, though. Or a pony.