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Willie O’Dea, Willie O’Dea,
No longer head,
Of the defense ministry,
Willie O’Dea, oh Willie O’Dea,
Now you’re just a back bench TDWillie O’Dea, Willie O’Dea
The remarks you made,
Were defamatory,
Willie O’Dea, oh Willie O’Dea,
Now your life’s a calamity.
The End.
After the wind up of Computer Troubleshooters – West Cork I’ve been looking around for some full time employment again. However there seems to be very little in the way of IT development work in Cork unless you have either Java or C# or .Net skills and unfortunately these aren’t part of my current portfolio.
So on Monday I’m starting a 3 month stint working for Amazon customer services up at the Cork airport business park. This may seem a bit of a departure from my usual role in IT; but it’s not something I’m completely unfamiliar with. I worked for the customer services division of Bull Information Systems in the UK between 1989 and 1999 and the customer service ethic is something I’ve tried to embody in the work I’ve done since then. My ex-customers might comment on how effective that was 
Either way Monday marks a new start. I hoping it’ll open some new doors and I’m sure it’ll present plenty of opportunities along the way.
Onward and upward…
This is not an easy post to write.
For the last 14 months I’ve been running my own business, Computer Troubleshooters – West Cork. Unfortunately, despite all my best efforts, this simply isn’t paying the bills, let alone putting food on the table. So I’ve decided to wind the company up and look for a fulltime position again.
For me this is a bit like trying to change gear in the middle of taking a sharp corner rather too fast. Life is lurching rapidly towards the curb whilst I’m struggling to keep it under control, not really sure in which direction I’m headed.
One thing I’m hoping is that this post will allow me to transition out of Computer Troubleshooters mode and back into “prospective employee” mode.
At least I should have more time for posting to this blog
PS. The business is for sale if you’re interested. It’s a franchise business and you’d get it at a fraction of the cost of setting up from scratch. Drop me a line if you’re interested.
There’s an age old adage that you’re probably familiar with:
Measure twice – cut once.
Well for me it goes more like:
Measure twice – cut three or four times, measure it again and cut a couple times more.
I don’t know what it is; but I just can’t seem to get the measurements right. Take this afternoon for example. All I had to do was put two hooks on the back of the bathroom door to hang a bathroom “tidy” on.
Two hooks, same height up the door. Easy!
So I put the two hooks up, hung the tidy on it, stood back; goddammit it’s crooked. Had reposition one on the hooks to get it level.
Me and DIY don’t mix.
Up until now we’ve used a Miele S718 vacuum cleaner to quite good effect; but since we got a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel last year it was obvious that the Miele was struggling to pick up the pet hair off the carpet.
By the way these dogs are described as “moderate shedders” of hair. I’d hate to see one that sheds a lot!
So we decided to replace it with a Dyson DC23 “Animal”. The vacuum is a compact format, as opposed to an upright, and comes with a good selection of tools and accessories including the all important turbo head for removing pet hairs. The vacuum has reasonably well packaged and took only a few minutes to assemble, though I struggled at one point to figure out just how the hose fitted around the cleaner body.
Time for a try out. There’s a reasonable length of electric cable; but I did think it could have been a few yards longer to reduce the need to keep moving sockets. I had hovered the sitting room only the afternoon before and the dog hadn’t been in there so I was completely amazed by the amount of hair that the vacuum picked up. Hopefully you can see this in the image.
So that’s a result! If I had any criticisms on this cleaner it’s in the very plastic construction of some of the parts. Only time will tell if these stand the rigors of domestic life.
As well as the large turbo head you also get:
The large turbo head and the three small heads all fit neatly onto the body of the cleaner for easy transport from one room to another.
Here are images of the vacuum Cylinder and the turbo heads:
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