This posting is brought to you be the dreadful sounding Fun Monday which is being hosted by my good lady wilf. I thought I’d ask a guest writer in to help me out.

Woke up, got out of bed

Getting up is generally pretty relaxed. Janis nearly always wakes first and makes tea. I make coffee later. We have a weird coffee making contraption and Janis likes to pretend she can’t operate it. Work starts late so we stay in bed until the dogs decide that there’s been enough lying around and it really is time for their first walk.

Dragged a comb across my head

Not strictly true for the last 20 or so years. I do put contact lenses in and have a shower - in that order. It’s important. I do not shave every day. Or every other day for that matter. My shaving regime is generally to shave when someone (generally Janis) complains that I am starting to look like a tramp.

Found my way downstairs and drank a cup

Come on Paul, we’ve done this bit. Keep up. Breakfast though goes in cycles. At the moment, I have a smoothie made from bananas kefir (a late fraction milk product) and some other fruit. I feel that such a healthy breakfast lets me off the requirement to eat vegetables for the rest of the day. Previous breakfast obsessions have been smoked salmon and scrambled eggs or even a rather delicious Peter Gordon derived fried feta with poached eggs and chilli sauce. I’m big on breakfast and like to cook things.

And looking up, i noticed i was late

I leave for work sometime between 9:30 and 10:00 depending on how long walking the dogs took.

Found my coat and grabbed my hat

I do wear a hat. Sorry about Paul’s obsession with the rather boring details. Actually, I have a lot of hats. The current favorite is a Paul Smith woolly hat (no bobble sorry). As spring is with us, there’s no real need for hats anymore so we’ll move on if that’s alright with the two Pauls.

Made the bus in seconds flat

I’m not even sure if I could take the bus. Instead I drive to work. I feel really bad about it. The walk is only about 30 minutes and before the winter I used to walk it every day. When it got cold I started to drive and I’ve never managed to break the habit. I generally get stopped by the police once per week. They want only bribes.

Found my way upstairs and had a smoke

Paul is probably talking about the top deck of the bus. We’ll ignore him. Our office is on the 5th floor of a Soviet block in Pechersk. It’s the old part of Kyiv and the office is pretty cool although it’s getting rather full. Over the last year two years, the company has grown from five of us to over a hundred and most of them are here in Kyiv. I spend the day in email and meetings. Let’s pretend today is Monday even though I’m writing on Sunday. Here’s what the schedule looks like:

You’ll notice it has lots and lots of meetings. I’ll not go into them in detail because your browser would probably melt with boredom. My main job is running engineering but I’m also general manager of this site - hence the Petty Cash drudgery and meetings with accountants.

At about 4pm America starts to wake up and the meetings go from being face to face to online - if I have a lot of them stretching into the wee hours (as I do today) I’ll try and get home early and work through the evening from there. Otherwise I leave at about 6-7pm. Janis and I split the cooking. When it’s my turn to cook I generally go over the top and we end up eating very late.

Somebody spoke and i went into a dream

Oh, welcome back Sir Paul. I thought all the talk of meetings had seen you off. At about 10:30 I take the dogs out before going to bed. I try and make sure they get a proper walk every night - I suppose I feel guilty about moving them into a flat in town.