football tonight

am going to be working the next 3 weekends in a row. no bother. as they say, its all about the benjamins and i will be handsomely compensated. i get the feeling this saturday is going to be a very long one. if i get out by 10pm i will be more than happy. please don't make me take the night bus home.

it does mean that my gym routine will be disrupted but its disrupted already by the weather and i figure its just for a few weeks and then my project is over and i suspect i will have plenty of time to get my conditioning back when i am inbetween contracts. it is quite hard starting all over again and putting all that work in to get back to your previous fitness level, but we have done it before and will can do it again.

on the subject of contracts i applied for another role at a smaller japanese investment bank. sounds like there can't be many techies there and they want someone with a broad range of skills. vmware, exchange, AD, SQL. they even want someone who can administer Clariion SANs. i have done a bit of that but not too much. that will be the only reason they won't ask me in for an interview, but i can't imagine there are too many SAN/Windows/VMware/Exchange/SQL guys out there and i am proficient in 4 out of 5 and have had exposure to Clariions as well.

lets hope they don't turn out to be idiots like that place i saw about 3 months ago that wanted someone who was an expert in Windows/Solaris/Market Data and Sybase. it sounds like they were randomly picking technology out of a hat. i saw that they still haven't filled that role and are still advertising it. idiots.

.....football tonight!!!. we haven't played in at least 2 months and i am gasping to play. i think everyone is. how awesome would it be to play football everyday. imagine getting to play in big stadiums on perfect pitches and getting paid a hundred grand a week. all you shithead proffesionals that end up drink driving, speeding and bar fighting whining about how tough you have it. you don't know when you got it good.

today i have mostly been listening to placebo - allergic. lovely stuff.