Month: July 2002

Got a meeting in just over an hour to actually sit down and get some information. The more I learn about this project the more it worries me. I have no real clue what I have let myself in for and there are no answers available to the lists of questions that are mounting, not least of all when are we going and when are we coming back. The timelines seen to be completely different depending on who you ask. I don’t like uncertainty at the best of times, but this is something pretty fucking big to be uncertain about. I suspect I’m overreacting to a lot of things (and yes I am aware of that) but it feels hastily thrown together and there is no planning in here.

Its become clear that a number of the questions that I have just plain can’t be answered, but you know movement on dates and location and other stuff like that could be sorted. All that takes is a couple of calls, I just wish we could do that and get something sorted. Maybe all that will do is put my mind at ease, and indeed the mind of the other developer involved. Right now we have provisionally agreed to a project in the US for an extended period and we don’t have a clue what we are doing…in any sense.

And I should check on stuff before getting all riled up about it. It was said purely in jest.

I fucking hate my laptop its getting beyond fucked up. I just lost another post because yet again it froze for no reason. Note to self; tomorrow night bring home the cd burner and reinstall it all.

Note the time on this post. *sigh* I wish I could figure out what it was. Only thing I’m thinking of right now could be weather? Its been very hot the past couple of nights? Or perhaps its all down to stress and I need to not worry about this project…uh huh like thats gonna happen.

Kinda distracted with stuff…shock that huh. Not been up to much. No CSI tonight, Saturday nights are season 1 repeats which is fine as I have not seen most of them, but no Monday night reshow will probably mean I miss a lot. 4 levels later on Bond now, about to have a crack at the fifth…and thats that one sorted..

A moment of childishness is called for.

In your face Flanders!

There is an image from Transmetropolitan that I have tried to find to post here to sum up my feelings at the moment.

It is of Spider Jerusalem sitting down surrounded by fire screaming GIVE ME INFORMATION.

Friday morning. I woke up about 10:30am. I knew I had a couple of voicemails on it that I had not checked so I figured I would give them a listen. I had a new message from my boss asking me to be available for a conference call at 12:30. So I cleared my morning and attended the call.

So the news. In about 3-4 weeks time I’m moving to DC until sometime in October. No fixed return date, one of the developers in another department and myself are being seconded to a team in Dulles to work on a project. The timeframe is all up in the air, but pretty much a come back when its done.

I have many many many many thoughts on all of this. I have started to make a list because I can’t keep track of them. It is a pretty major project and a pretty major move with lots of (worrying) logistics to work out. While I am obviously excited about the entire project, I have many concerns.

Bond is annoying me, the first 8 letters were easy…very easy but the 9th is pissing me off and I’m having trouble running through it. Ah well more fun for a later date. Gonna pack my crisps and other stuff in a bag for tomorrow and try and sleep.

I’m actually looking forward to going into work in the morning. I want to see how one of the projects has progressed over the past week and of course interesting and major developments need to be discussed. I have about a thousand questions in no order at all and no real clue where to start…actually I lie, I have a great starting point.

This afternoon I met a friend for coffee and lunch, in typical manor the weather here today was amazing. Sunny and hot and we all know what that means oh yes. Anyways we had some stuff to talk about before the entire formal (well…somewhat more formal) stuff kicks off.

I was listening to some of the few albums I had left behind when I moved over the past few days and for some reason I’m really into Alanis Morissette at the mo. Listening to Jagged Little Pill and realising that most of the entire bloody album is about sex and I never twigged the lyrics….hey I was young and innocent once and it is from ’95. She has an interesting voice to say the least, sometimes it really works, other times it does not.

The UN Security Council voted unanimously for the 12-month exemption – to be renewed annually – to end a bitter row threatening peacekeeping operations.
Anger at war crimes court deal

I am in the clear to now go and talk about things. However I think I’ll wait till tomorrow when I have a chance to sit down and talk to Dave about it.

Cheerleaders, someone do remind me to talk about cheerleaders when I can 🙂

Got to Dublin airport at 3.30 yesterday. Got home last night at 10.30. I fucking hate fucking ryanfuckingair. More to come, but I have to catch up on some stuff and meet a friend.

From the airport at around 4:30 yesterday:

So I’m sitting at the boarding gate in the airport waiting to head back to London. I’m a little early, its always good to just leave a few minutes extra just in case, but in usual Ryanair fashion the flight has been delayed by 20 minutes at least.

One thing I’ve found and I’ve really noticed it over the past few days where there are queues in my parents house for the phone line to get online is that I for some strange reason just don’t like writing blog entries while I’m offline. It feels strange, most of the time even when I’m online I don’t write the entries at blogger.com, I use UltraEdit or the rich text pages within AOL. It just seems a little off to be sitting here not online writing this.

Anyways overall a good week, this afternoon we made a quick trip out to one of my cousins who was having a barbecue for the family and then I was dropped off at the airport. Nothing much really during the week, a lot of time just catching up with friends and seeing some family. The only thing I actually had planned was for Friday morning but a call from work kinda scuppered that.

Big things are happening, all hush hush at the mo but I’m walking back into a hell of a lot of work stuff and from the sounds it, it is all good 🙂

I’ll post an entry later in the week but for the time being blah blah blah blah.