It's all in the context

I know it's only my first week of work and everything, and that I shouldn't expect too much, but this new job is proving a bit of a challenge. Basically I've gone from heading up the cocoa and coffee research team for my previous company, having ten years experience and being the one people come to with questions knowing they will get answers, to the newbie, who can run a simple query or report but doesn't know if the data being extracted makes any sense at all. What is nitrophoska? What's it used for? Who are the merchants we sell it to? And what constitutes a significant quantity of it in terms of annual purchases? I don't know. Do you? The transition is proving tricky. I have a whole new industry to learn, and I'm not used to not understanding the context.

Joanne went over to look at the house tonight, the final check before we get the keys tomorrow, to make sure all the outstanding issues were resolved. It seems they are not. But it's not a problem. They have a thing here where we can withold a small proportion of the cash pending all the problems being fixed. The question is just how much to withold. We don't want to withold too much so that the builder and developer get annoyed with us, especially when they've still got stuff to finish, but on the other hand we don't want to withold too little and give them no incentive to finish the outstanding work.

We heard today that the vessel with our container on it has been delayed and now won't arrive for another too weeks. It was due to land today. That's a bit disappointing. It'll push back when we can realistically move into the house.

Oh, and we lost at footy tonight 9-8. The other team weren't better than us, just fitter, first to the ball, and with a better understanding of each other having played together for a while it seemed.

I've had better days.