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gyming and sorting out mortgage shit. thats been taking up my days. hopefully we are on the final home stretch with the mortgage stuff and its all just administration and paperwork and the transfer of money remaining. i was a bit annoyed with the whole process about a week ago but my excitement for getting the new place has returned.

have also applied for a few roles but its very quiet at the moment. i had lunch with one of the guys at the bank i just finished up at in december and asked him what was going on there. he said 50% of the staff, all contractors were not renewed after i went and that there was not much work going on whilst they waited for budget sign off which still hadnt happened. i was speaking to a recruitment consultant and he said it was the same at all the banks he was dealing with as well and he thought mid february would be when the market picked up. no bother as there is a course at the end of this month that i might go on and also it will be a couple of weeks before all this new flat work gets done.

i also heard that the chancer who worked at my last bank had been really worried right to the end and had been desperately calling up people he had worked with before to try and get a contract somewhere. how pathetic. grossly overpaid for 18 months and he is shitting himself about not earning money for a few weeks. i think deep down inside he knows he probably aint got the skill, talent or the workrate to get anything else as lucrative and was looking to call in favours from friends. i could tell him for free that he falls way below the standard i would expect if i was paying that much cash for a contractor. he would be lucky to get half what we were getting. i know that sounds bitchy but i have worked in quite a few places and met quite a few assholes and he is number 2 on the idiot list behind this fella.

got woked up at 8am this morning (i usually sleep in till 10am), about a job which sounded interesting but then the guy told me it was for a retailer, and i said i didnt want it. he then told me who it was and its a very high fashion luxury brand and i said actually i would do it for them. we shall see if he comes back to me. i did tell them i wanted a bit more than i usually ask for so i may have priced myself out of it. no bother.

anyways, i have been hammering it at the gym recently which is good. will try and get out on the bike tomorrow and cycle as well as the weather is dry but cold. have started reading a bit about SQL 2008. christ i must be bored.

today i have mostly been listening to yeah yeah yeahs - zero. wicked tune.