Weekend was great and very busy as usual. Saturday, haircut, shopping 2 hour badminton then later on coffee at friend's place.

Sunday started with visiting the police dog trial and show, which was awesome. Lots of dogs, police, fire engine, emergency displays, lots of food and laugh. I donated a couple quid for different charities to balance the free event entry :)

Then after that Mrs. Smith went to work, I drove down to Felixstowe played an hour badminton with friends. Came home, had a shower then drove back to Felixstowe again (like the diesel is sooo cheap :)), met with my friend at the seaside for a fantastic frappe full of chocolate and tasty espresso. Not very manly though but don't judge me for it :)

Weather was great, very warm, sunny. There was a bit of a mist over the sea, but still it was great to chill out at the seaside. Later on we visited another friend where we overstayed a bit and left his place around 9pm. It was just the time for me to get back to Ipswich and pick up Mrs. Smith when she finished work.

It was a great day and very relaxing for sure. This week at work I will only have to fight against management for 4 days only as Big Friday is coming up and we will have a long weekend because of Easter. Unfortunately I am oncall this week, so I am not entirely happy about it but you gotta learn to appreciate small things in life. 

I  am going to Wing Chun tonight, hopefully I will not be called-out and back to work ...

Fingers crossed ...

Yesterday afternoon at 16:00 I was asked to carry out some out of hours work on the same day at 20:00. My  company believe this is the proper way to schedule something in advance, lol.

As I was luckily home and nothing was scheduled I decided to do it for them as it seemed to be a half an hour task. This later turned into a 2 and a half hour nightmare and finished around 22:30.

Everything was chaotic. Things turned out to be different, issues everywhere, starting from messing around with locked GSM phones and unreliable GSM adapter to more complex routing issues.

I truly regret it working yesterday. And I was not even oncall. 

Today I will have police training from 7pm, so I will not do any work until next week I believe. I began to realize I am dreaming with work as well, which is considering how unhappy I am with it seems to be pretty alarming sign...

In the last couple days we did nothing but had lots of parties.

I celebrated my birthday a couple days earlier with Mrs. Smith and my brother then we had a leaving party organized last Saturday, which was followed by a long BBQ party which we finished at 1:15am on Monday morning. Then I traveled up to my headquarters at work for several meetings, drove 300miles and arrived back home at 20:30 when we had another birthday party celebration, which ended at midnight.

I was extremely tired in the last couple of days and I still don't feel myself fresh. Also last week on my birthday I went out policing for a couple hours which was great again as always. We had blue-lights runs, talked to "travelers", did some traffic job and also response patrolling. Was a good birthday for sure :)

I had my appraisal meeting on Monday, where I could raise my concerns and got pretty good feedbacks on my performance from my managers and other members in the team. But let's be honest, this meeting was about my complaints. :)

Work is still chaotic and I don't see a way to resolve it, other than looking for another job.

I needed to send a test call today to a random mobile number in Amsterdam. The called person did not pick up but later on he called me back. He was speaking English fluently, I was so impressed. 

It got me thinking what would happen if I was trying the same with a Hungarian mobile?

I got so fed up with my job today, that I decided to start looking for something else. I updated my CV and uploaded to a jobsite so now I am open for offers :)