Big Brother

Despite my best efforts, I am finding myself getting dragged into watching big brother. It goes the same way each year. I see a bit of a preview or read in a magazine. I think what a bunch of tossers, I'm not watching that. Then Tasha will watch it and I just get dragged in. There seems to be some devious people in there this year (as well as others which seem to be real air heads)

Resigned

Handed in my notice yesterday, with a hope of starting my new contract on June 12th. MOST people have been very supportive, although others are being arseholes. Head spinning, hopefully be able to settle my thoughts during my visit to Leek.

Massive Kebabs

We all just had huge kebabs from Winchester. Man they were really good, especially the whole chillis. I had the healthy(er) option of chicken, which must have had 3 whole chicken breasts in it, salad, those lovely chillis etc. Robin had the same but with Doner meat. Mike however asked for "the special", it arrived in 3 containers. The 1st was about 12" square and had doner meat, chicken breasts, lamb chops, shish kebabs and a salad, he then had a portion of chips and 2 pitta breads. After 1/2 hour of snaffling, he was defeated and there was still loads left.

Just packing up now, realising that I'm not actually going to get much time at home. Will need to leave the house at about 9am latest tomorrow, then I'm off to KHE on Sunday. I decided to take Adrian's lead though and went for the evening flight rather than the lunchtime one, which will give me a few extra hours!

Tonights work has gone OK, managed to get all my mods done on the UNITs and they're all in ready for a big compile later.

Early start means early finish

After speaking with Mark this morning I decided to come in early today, so that I can get aware a head of schedule later - it also means that some good comms can be had with the day shift boys.

Mike's new brakes in his car didn't work to well last night, as I found his car had run into mine overnight in the hotel car park!!

Rumours from last night are false and it seems that the sale of our business is going through. However had an interesting conversation with another agent this morning, who basically offered me an interview with the purchaser directly!! We are being catious as we've been told that blogs are being watched on the subject!!!

The penny has dropped

....with the managers on the project and they finally realised that things are behind schedule. Panic set in rapidly and they asked us to work the weekend. I obviously declined due to my interview and Mike declined due to the fact that he doesn't give a shit! They have come up with a plan so that it will be in "some kind of shape" for Monday morning. I think that doing this to save a bit of face now is daft (and potentially dangerous) but hey, I'm the code monkey on this one!

Google Notebook

Just set up Google Notebook and it seems pretty good. obviously its not got all the features of OneNote, but I like the fact that its all online and accessible wherever there is an internet connection.

Also just spent some time applying for a couple more contract positions. I think that it is for Dragon as its an LNG project based in Middlesex.

Swapping hotels

Left in no-mans-land this morning, when I had to check out of one hotel and into another (with a 4 hour gap in the middle). Managed at least to get my car parked, with all my gear in it, so that I could walk around Winchester. I walked a long way. And then walked some more.

Had a phone call to say that a chap from Booth Welsh would ring me to talk about work. The offer was OK (if it was for a local firm), but I don't really fancy the weekly commute to Scotland, or the commissioning periods offshore in the Arabian Gulf. I've got some more "irons in the fire" though, so hopefully things will come good by the end of the week.

John seemed to have a good day at interview too.

I'm actually sitting in the workshop all by myself tonight, not sure where everyone is, bu I have managed to get my del.icio.us tags done and catch up on the Google Reader feeds, wonder if I'll be able to afford this when I'm contracting (or more importantly the new house required to accomodate it). Not really one for Star Wars stuff, but I thought these bookends were really cool