Peter’s Hospital Diary

Last week saw me in Bristol doing a course on Financial Management (also known as “Accounting for non-accountants”) which was interesting – but intensive! It should have been a five day course, but because of the bank holiday, five days was crammed into four – with an exam at the end. However, I stayed in a very nice hotel in the centre of Bristol – and managed top get some of my PGCert coursework 2 done. Still, it wasn’t all work, and on the last night a few of us met up for a drink and a meal – I managed more beer than I have in a long time, and whe I arrived home and jumped on the scales, I had broken the 10st barrier! I called in at Cranfield on my way home to deliver the written copies of the first coursework, and return some library books.

And this weekend has seen me continue to work on coursework 2! This is a practical, and my head is reeling with hexadecimal (base 16) conversions, and hard disk address translations – but I think I have got about 90% straight in my head, so I just need to write it up. This is relatively easy, and should only take a couple of pages, as the main body of the work is tabular and a map of a hard disk layout. The deadline is next Sunday (for the e mail copy).

Still, I had a welcome break when Sue and Mark (fellow blogmaster) came over for dinner on Saturday night!

This week sees the start of the ECP – while I was away the next twelve months appointments arrived. Fiirst one is on Tuesday and Wednesday (not Monday and Tuesday as I first thought), followed by the haematology department on Thursday. That really leaves Friday as the coursework deadline, as I am off to Worcester to carry out some more training with LeukaemiaCare and I need to get it all completed before I go! And I am expecting coursework 3 (the last for this module) sometime next week!

Onwards and Upwards!