contractor rule # 3

managed to motivate my sorry ass to actually study this weekend. weather was dry but quite chilly and windy and so staying in and hitting the books was not such a bad option. anyways, things are looking on schedule for friday lunchtime which is when i have it booked for. will study in the evenings when i get home but it shall hopefully be only this week of inconvenience and then i genuinely will have done nearly all the exams i wanted to get done. there is nothing else out there that i really badly want to study for. will carry on reading and studying but i won't actually HAVE to take any more exams not that i HAD to take any exams before, but i just wanted to.  

....and thats it. absolutely nothing else happening at all. life is unbelieveably dull, and especially when you stay in and hit the books. i left the house only to cycle to the gym and work out on saturday and sunday. i did nothing else. 

lets be honest, this blog is pretty mundane at the best of times and hardly the heroin diaries, but these days its just got to a whole new level of boring. oh well....

.....i guess i could write about work but there isn't anything really to say. its ok. they haven't given me any projects or anything big to be doing so things are just ticking along. last week i heard one of the directors ask how a particular thing could be done, and my boss suggested vmware and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. i nearly suggested that it could be overkill, and they could go do a citrix or terminal server type solution....but i kept my mouth shut. vmware is my bosses pet technology and he loves it, and i agree it is a wicked product, but there are other ways of giving remote users access to applications and desktops, but i doubt he would appreciate my 2 cents if i suggested something else. 

contractor rule # 3 - don't suggest alternatives to your bosses chosen techology speciality. he is not going to choose something he knows little about, even if it may be better. this also follows on from contractor rule # 2 , don't offer an opinion unless asked. 

see now, i would be breaking 2 rules if i spoke up and suggested terminal server. amateur mistakes really. schoolboy errors. jog on sunshine. 

today i have mostly been listening to juliette and the licks - coming around. no actual video but just a youtube link to the song but its a wicked tune. was sceptical when i heard an actress was in a band but she is actually a really good singer. 

you take care now. yes you V!. :-)