Still alive!

*waves* I'm still alive out here! Just...

So it turns out that a migraine on the hottest day of the year so far
is a really stupid plan. Who knew?

And who transported the UK to the tropics? 'Cos 37C is really way too
hot. Totally. Thankfully I'm back at work where they have nice,
cooling air conditioning. OK, so I'm also facing the usual crap and
insanity, but I'll put up with that for the value of not roasting to
death.

My unexpected absense pointed out the holes in our disaster recovery plan.

Um, there isn't one.

I.e. if I'm not here, nobody knows what I do. Nobody has wanted to
know what I do even though I've been pointing out for months that this
is a bad plan, but now they've decided that they probably need to know
after all. Particularly as it's just ocurring to a few of the bosses
that I will be on holiday in a couple of weeks and nobody knows how to
do my Monday/Tuesday insanity work. They've been lucky so far that
I've always made it on Monday and Tuesday, so nobody has noticed how
much I'm doing or how poorly prepared they are for my absence. I've
been promised the aid of the new guy so hopefully I can get him up to
speed to be my backup before I go.

I have Chinese food cravings but it's way too hot for those. Pout.