Second Monday of the week!
Elections are officially over and once again it amazes me that the day was not made a public holiday. On arriving at work yesterday, there was not one local here. I had made arrangements to go over to Site (the 90 min trip), and departed at my normal 9.30 am.
As an aside, my accountant’s blood makes me a man of routine. My routine consists of the following:
1. Arrive at work and have a meeting with all my supervisors
2. Once I am up to speed with what’s happening, I toddle into the office and kick start the old computer. (that is assuming the Genset is turned on, the sat system is turned on and the server booted up and recognizes that it spose to be a DHCP server as well), download email and respond to the fact that SA is 2 hours ahead of us.
3. Paperwork until 9.30 – then off to site. (this happens once every second day now).
4. Back from site anywhere from 12:30 – 3:30.
5. By that time, every mother and his dog wants to see me, and I spend the next hour sorting out issues, signing petty cash slips, finding out about stuff ordered that has not arrived etc etc.
6. Do my costing sheets for the previous day
7. 4.30 – 5.30 is set aside for accounting stuff – unless it is month end and punching needs to be done. (I am slowly getting the staff to do the punching, and that is starting to work quite well)
8. Then sit down with the supervisors off site and get quotes done, discuss their costings from the previous day and any problems that are apparent, and generally work out what they have done for the day.
9. Finally clear up paperwork. Catch up on my reading for the day – if that has not been done in the quiet times.
10. Go home and watch TV.
I am writing again – cause I have a huge amount of time, and on my normal book, I have just over 200 pages under the belt. On my Erotica, that is proving to be a tad difficult and I find myself writing and deleting often. I am running through blogs at the moment in an attempt to get a decent story line, as most of the stuff that I am writing on that side is turning into a bad porn script.
Back to where I was!
The drive to site yesterday was a little more challenging then most days. As people were generally not at work or school, there was an amazing amount of people on the road. Road sense for pedestrians is non existent and due to my abject fear of knocking someone over, one finds oneself trundling through the villages at 20kmph. Little kids run from the side of the road with no regard for vehicles and people wander in the middle of the road and it takes concerted blasts of the hooter to get them to move out of the way.
Resolved all outstanding issues on site with the project manager and once again had a sedate drive back, to find everything locked up and the “holiday” in full swing.
Home, slept, watched TV, read my book and slept until the “imam clock” went off at 4.30am.
Today I travel on a two day trip to Obuasi, Ahafo, Bibiani, Chirano and Bauxite. I leave at 11.30 after chasing money down, we sleep at Kumasi tonight (at least Zak knows the decent places to sleep and there is a NANDO”S there) and do the remainder of the trip tomorrow, hopefully back by around 9pm tomorrow night.
I have the camera with me – so again I could get some pics of the country for you all (3 of you) to enjoy.
Lemme get at it
Have a good one peoples
As an aside, my accountant’s blood makes me a man of routine. My routine consists of the following:
1. Arrive at work and have a meeting with all my supervisors
2. Once I am up to speed with what’s happening, I toddle into the office and kick start the old computer. (that is assuming the Genset is turned on, the sat system is turned on and the server booted up and recognizes that it spose to be a DHCP server as well), download email and respond to the fact that SA is 2 hours ahead of us.
3. Paperwork until 9.30 – then off to site. (this happens once every second day now).
4. Back from site anywhere from 12:30 – 3:30.
5. By that time, every mother and his dog wants to see me, and I spend the next hour sorting out issues, signing petty cash slips, finding out about stuff ordered that has not arrived etc etc.
6. Do my costing sheets for the previous day
7. 4.30 – 5.30 is set aside for accounting stuff – unless it is month end and punching needs to be done. (I am slowly getting the staff to do the punching, and that is starting to work quite well)
8. Then sit down with the supervisors off site and get quotes done, discuss their costings from the previous day and any problems that are apparent, and generally work out what they have done for the day.
9. Finally clear up paperwork. Catch up on my reading for the day – if that has not been done in the quiet times.
10. Go home and watch TV.
I am writing again – cause I have a huge amount of time, and on my normal book, I have just over 200 pages under the belt. On my Erotica, that is proving to be a tad difficult and I find myself writing and deleting often. I am running through blogs at the moment in an attempt to get a decent story line, as most of the stuff that I am writing on that side is turning into a bad porn script.
Back to where I was!
The drive to site yesterday was a little more challenging then most days. As people were generally not at work or school, there was an amazing amount of people on the road. Road sense for pedestrians is non existent and due to my abject fear of knocking someone over, one finds oneself trundling through the villages at 20kmph. Little kids run from the side of the road with no regard for vehicles and people wander in the middle of the road and it takes concerted blasts of the hooter to get them to move out of the way.
Resolved all outstanding issues on site with the project manager and once again had a sedate drive back, to find everything locked up and the “holiday” in full swing.
Home, slept, watched TV, read my book and slept until the “imam clock” went off at 4.30am.
Today I travel on a two day trip to Obuasi, Ahafo, Bibiani, Chirano and Bauxite. I leave at 11.30 after chasing money down, we sleep at Kumasi tonight (at least Zak knows the decent places to sleep and there is a NANDO”S there) and do the remainder of the trip tomorrow, hopefully back by around 9pm tomorrow night.
I have the camera with me – so again I could get some pics of the country for you all (3 of you) to enjoy.
Lemme get at it
Have a good one peoples
2 Comments:
so where's the pics ? huh huh huh ?
I agree with Ester, where are the pics?????? You are slipping ......... 5 days later and no pics!!!!!
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