It was my second week at my new job. It was still hectic as I tried to get their infrastructure performing better but at least my second week couldn’t be as bad as my first, right?
Oh dear.
Tales from IT : The Story of the Little IT Boy
Or, “How badly can you mess up in the first couple of weeks in a new job”?
That said, it could have been a lot worse. Full gory details below the line.
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Birthday Awesomeness
Had a brilliant birthday celebration. As a renaissence man it ticked all the cultural boxes as you’d expect.
Monty Python Live
We went to see Monty Python Live at the O2 at the weekend and it was brilliant fun. Two hours of nostalgia!
Androcles
Beds are the great comforter; they give peaceful repose at the end of a long day. A restful haven allowing you to regroup. A blissful bastion against the travails of the daytime.
Right?
Wrong.
Beds are cunning adversaries, lying in wait to trap the unwary.
Doctor Who Museum
Took the family up to Cardiff at the weekend (some friends said we could use their flat which was awesome). One of the places we went to was the new, improved Doctor Who museum. A very cool interactive experience / adventure with Matt Smith as the Doctor was great; and totally authentic as the petrified 5 year-old in the group could testify. To be honest the Weeping Angels would terrify anyone.
Australia : The End
The holiday was a fantastic. Australia is a brilliant place and we barely scratched the surface in three weeks. Would recommend it to everyone and we did loads of cool stuff which I could barely touch on here on my blog.
Plus, I managed to burn this into my hand while reaching for hash-browns;
Australia : Port Douglas
Two flights, 5 hours waiting in an airport and a 1 1/2 hr drive from Cairns to Port Douglas.
When I read it back it doesn’t seem so long at all! We watched Avatar on our IThings, read a lot of ebooks and did whatever we could to kill time. Painless and the girls were very patient.
Australia : Day 7
Up _before_ the crack of dawn in order to get to Uluru for sunrise. The locals had proscribed set areas to view Uluru from so it was pretty crowded at the viewing platform.
It looked spectacular through with the changing dawn colours shown on both Uluru itself and the dawn sky around it.
Australia : Day 6
Travelling day; usual drill. Rouse the troops, get breakfast, try and stay awake and make sure you don’t forget anything important (like a piece of technology. Or a child). All went according to plan thanks to the Overminds’ preternatural organisational abilities and we arrived at Uluru with a minimum of fuss.
The hotel was strange; trying to cater for tourists and their desire for luxuries with the local requirements of minimal impact on the land and resource usage. The room was big but spartan and you really got a sense of being out in the middle of nowhere.
Herring's Fishbait 