Okay, a week ago today it was announced that our office is closing down. Funny thing is that nothing is official yet so we haven’t actually had our letter of termination yet – only a note telling us what we are destined to get at the end of the year.…
New start in 2012
Yelladworks, my current employer is closing it’s Edinburgh office and ‘off-shoring’ all the of its IT to India from the end of the year. So yes, I have to find something to do from the start of next year. The package should be pretty good since I’ve been there for…
Fed up with this walking malarky
Right, getting a bit fed up with this snow nonsense now. Out of the last 31 journeys to or from work I have been on my bicycle the vast total of 6 trips… 🙁 1 bus journey home to make sure I was home in time to pick up Christmas…
Finally got an iphone
Typing this in from it as we speak! So far I think it is the bee’s knees. More apps than i could ever need. Gives me the chance to be on the web of an evening when Lorraine is hogging the laptop…
Nights are fair drawin' in
With just less than a fortnight to go until the winter solstice I’m really looking forward to the gradual shift in the length of the day. Really noticed it this year as I seem to be up and out of the house sometime near the end of lighting up time…
Climbed Everest (well my bit)
Finished my 74 ascents of our stairs at work today in our charity effort to climb Everest. Not too late to donate!
Flat progress
Moving on from tiling/plumbing/painting – tonight Matthew, I am going to be a carpet fitter. (well vinyl) Flat is coming along nicely, lots of wee finishing jobs to do – screwing things to walls and cleaning up a bit. Vinyl fitting isn’t as easy as it looks! I think I’ve…
And here's the office tree
Our spare fake tree, with bauble and lights from home. The wee cardboard box below it is a nativity scene made up of stress balls and so on…
2 buses, 6 trains, 2 planes, 1 taxi, 1 car
That’s what a trip to Reading on business involves! Everything was pretty much on time – the biggest delay was waiting for the Airport bus from Edinburgh Airport back home! 6 trains you ask? To save the company 50% on the price of BA to Heathrow I ‘Queasy Jetted’ to…
Been sorta quiet
Not been inspired to blog much this month. Was laid up with the cold for a couple of days last week leading up to the bank holiday – typical. So Wednesday/Thursday was spend wandering aimlessly about the house mopping at my snotty nose. Watched lots of episode of Battlestar Galactica…