Day 39

Had a good day at work today – spent most of it teaching myself how to set up a SharePoint site.  Without going into too much detail, SharePoint is a Microsoft product that lets you set up a web-based workspace where teams can (among other things) share documents.  Anyway, I’ve been modifying an existing site for use by the new EMEA AD/Exchange team. 

SharePoint is designed to be a ‘user managed’ website – no need for IT geeks to do fancy programming to get things working.  It’s all click here, drag there.  What I spent the most time trying to get right was access permissions.  With a bit of trial and error (during which time I managed to somehow remove my access, essentially locking me out of the site) I eventually figured it out and got everything working the way I wanted.

Lunch today was a bit of a strange one.  I wasn’t exactly sure what I’d ordered (less so than usual) but I thought it was something with pork and potatoes.  In a way I suppose it was, except that the ‘pork’ was actually crispy fried bacon and the ‘potatoes’ were inside these savoury pancakes that were folded in half.  This combination was served with a side of lingonberry jam – which is sweet like strawberry jam.  When eaten all together the combination actually wasn’t that bad.  Separately, the pancakes were average and the bacon tasted, well, like bacon.

The supermarket had mostly finished the renovations so I managed to get the diced beef I’d been looking for yesterday.  Cheffed up an awesome Goulash.  Cooked it for about nearly an hour and a half so the meat was super tender.  Cooked enough for dinner tonight and tomorrow…

Jodie’s started training at her new job so timing our daily Skype has become a bit harder, since she now gets home after I’m already started work.  Tonight we tried while she was getting ready in the morning.  It was okay, but it’s hard to have a conversation when you’re doing your hair, taking the dog out, packing your bag etc.

Started watching a new TV show today – Community – about students at a community college in Denver, Colorado.  The biggest name on the show is Chevy Chase, although he’s not the main character.  IMDB gives it 8.6 and, based on the pilot, that sounds about right.