its been a while

not blogged in a little while. have written lots of long posts in the last few weeks but didn't end up publishing them. decided i didn't want to.
er....well anyway here i am again. nothing major to report. am still looking for a new job but thats not news because i am always looking to move on. i have gone from one extreme to the other. after showing commendable loyalty beyond the call of duty at the internet company i spent 8 and a half years at, i now don't feel an ounce of loyalty to any job i do now. i left the internet company to progress and to learn and to experience things and thats exactly what i am doing and then i move on.

had a couple of calls this week offering possible contracts at places but they want people to start immediately and i can't get out that quick.
you see, what i think is usually the case with freelance IT workers is that they tend to stay somewhere till their contracts end or don't get renewed and then people look to move on and they are usually out of work at the time. i am actually in a contract at the moment but am looking to move on, and i don't think that is very common. i don't think many IT contractors leave because they are bored. most of them seem like they just like the comfortable money when you get settled somewhere. not me though. if i wanted to be comfortable i would have stayed at the internet company. i want to be uncomfortable. :-)

one thing though is that i can't plan my trip to the states this year as i am not sure where i will be yet for the rest of the year. once i get something that will see me though the end of the summer i will be able to make a plan. might do what i did last year which was a few days in new york and a few days in san fran, or i might just go to san fran for the week and maybe see a bit more of cali. a friend of mine is going to be in LA for a week at the end of august and so it would be good to meet up there around then. we shall see how it goes.

have a strange feeling something might happen in the next few weeks. i don't know why but i just got a feeling.
also, after not studying for nearly 3 months i have tentatively got back to the books. i am so used to studying that it feels weird when i don't. its like going to the gym. if i don't got for a week i don't feel right. my arms chest and legs start going soft and i don't like how that feels. anyways, i am just studying a bit of cisco at the moment. i don't use it in my role and haven't touched a router in a year, but its always good to know.

actually if i am honest part of it is just ego, all this doing certifications and wanting to have more than people at work or anywhere else. i might stop after doing the cisco stuff but i probably won't. eh!, it could be worse. i could be addicted to heroin. at least the side effect of my addiction enhances my bank balance instead of emptying it.

am off to angels and airwaves in a couple of weeks. should be a good show. they were good when i saw them last summer.

thats it really.

hope you are healthy and well V. was thinking how you might be these days.

Nxx

today i have mostly been listening to royworld - man in the machine. have a listen. they are wicked.

editors...again

went to see editors play last night at alexandra palace. i saw them play in the fall of last year and i thought they were very good then and they were very good again last night. had a long day at work and wasn't feeling so great yesterday but i felt a million times better after the show.

still not heard back from that media/games company. i don't think its gonna happen. they are taking far too long. have another interview at another place tomorrow. will see how it goes.

today i have mostly been listening to ladytron - destroy everything you touch.

take care V.

Nx

kids in japan

my minidisc player died this week. it just stopped reading any minidiscs i put into it. i gave it a clean but still nothing. i had it for over 5 years and for most of that time i used it every single day on the way to work. when i left the internet company i used to work for they bought me a sony 8GB mp3 player which i tend to use most of the time now, but i still used my minidisc player quite a bit.

after my minidisc player died i debated whether i should get another one or whether i should just stick to my mp3 player or buy a bigger better mp3 player, but i decided to get another minidisc player because i think they are wicked. no one outside japan seems to think so, but i do and so does those cool kids in japan. i went down to the sony shop after the gym this afternoon and picked up a new one, and its wicked and its alse nice to be different from everyone else.


did 2 intense sessions at the gym this weekend just like last weekend. my arms, shoulders and chest ache. the kind of ache you get when you first start going to the gym and your body is not used to lifting weights. i am used to lifting weights but not this much this many times. i do feel better for it after a days rest. aside from that its been a quiet weekend. am hoping i hear back about that job on tuesday. they are interviewing one more guy tomorrow and if he turns out to be not very good i think they might go with me, judging by what the guy said to me after my interview. i have my fingers crossed they do come back and make me an offer.

take care V. was finishing up at the gym and was wondering how you were as i know these are important weeks ahead for you. nearly emailed you when i got home but stopped myself because i thought you might not want to hear from me or you might have more important matters to deal with at this moment. sent some positive thoughts instead. hope you got those. :-)

Nxx

today i have mostly been listening to editors - an end has a start. my favourite band and am seeing them play a show on wednesday night. this song is awesome.