There was a slight plip late last night when my web page went down due to technical difficulties. It was all Rudy’s fault. She is of course trying to deny it, but we all know better. I was talking to her on IM when she asked me to wait while she did something.

Not a problem. I decided that I’d change the picture on my profile on Blogger. This isn’t as straight forward as you may think – it needs to link to a website. So I saved the picture to a web page and hit publish on Tripod. Unfortunately while doing this I wiped out everything else. As in all gone, no longer there, the pages you are looking for no longer exist. Oops.

Thankfully Front Page is an unusual Microsoft product. It actually works for a start. I just needed to re-publish everything, which after my initial panic took about five minutes. So you can see why it was Roo’s fault – if she hadn’t made me wait I would never have tried to change the picture to start with.

And if Scally or should that be ‘Madam President’ makes any comments along the lines of ‘fiddling again’ – please ignore her. She’s just casting aspersions. You’ll have read her comments in the past and have worked out her trouble making capacities no doubt.

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And whilst I’m setting the record straight, I think I need to mention Cobweb. Although I’m not mentioning that name very loudly, O.K? No point in temping Fate. Fate probably knows her personally anyway and would no doubt drop me in it.

I think I may have inadvertently given the impression that she has been approachable, understanding, supportive and er..... kind, during the last week. I wouldn’t want anyone to get the wrong impression and I most certainly do not want to take the blame for blemishing her reputation. I didn’t mean to – it’s not my fault.

And she was quite right when she mentioned to me yesterday to just look at what I could achieve when I was more scared of her than of my manager . In fact the Gods know why I’m even joking about this. I am more scared of her than I am my manager.

So please note, the ‘approach carefully’ is still firmly in place, especially if she appears to have something in her hand at the time. You should also be aware that she is still the same bossy, no nonsense, sharp tongued, domineering, fire breath dragon that she has always been.

And we wouldn’t want her any other way.

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And lastly, my assertiveness training has paid off. I placed an advert in the local paper yesterday for Admin Staff. Yes that’s right, as in more than one. It has been recognised that I cannot possibly cover everything that is expected of me. I actually went to work this morning without a feeling of dread. I’m still sticking to my guns mind – I need to continue learning to say No, I’m sorry, I can’t do that. I also need to stop running around and picking up after everyone. I'm actually finding that one more difficult to accomplish.