Less than a fortnight to go at The Employer Who Must Not be Named. There is still one small chance I could stay, but at a different office. So I've been spending my time throwing out old papers. I guess if I don't decide, I'll just leave it all on my desk for the co-workers to deal with.
I managed to finally get a job interview in person rather ( Read more... )

So it's odd having this enforced vacation. At this point I go into the office only when I need to download alot or want fresh fruit. I'm spending most of my time tweaking my CV and applying for loads of jobs. The rest is catching up on new technologies, and the new job advert terminology. When did Methodology become Solutions Architecture? And when ( Read more... )

Just under a month left til I either get an internal transfer or am out the door at my job. I'm starting to really like the idea of the redundancy payout since it'll make our leaking roof happy. Now that I think of it, with the roof repair I should have nice new deck in time for spring, which sounds nice ( Read more... )

The fun events for this week come in two parts.

The first part is my job has disappeared from under me and I am at risk for redundancy. In practice this means I have 6 weeks to find someone else in The Company Which Must Not Be Named to find something for me to do, or I'm out of the street in a terrible job market with 6 months to find a new job ( Read more... )

The shipment showed up today. Somehow we ended up with 63 boxes. That took a while to get in there.
Answers to my ponderings from yesterday:

• What are in those boxes? - I still don't know for the most part. I do know that a lot of the labels were wrong since many items were taken out of storage years ago. So no shower curtain - which I don’t mind ( Read more... )

8 years ago, before we moved to the UK, the wifemonster and I packed up all our stuff into about 30 boxes. Once we got a flat we shipped over about half of that. The rest, plus some furniture and things have been mostly in my parents’ basement.

Time passed.

We bought our own place a few months ago. We now have enough room for all those things ( Read more... )

Today I wake up, go into the back room and find two streams of water coming from the ceiling ( Read more... )

I think I'm fairly up to date on my homebuying stories. Which brings me to today, where I find I need more work done on the place. I'm hoping someone with a homewise brain might know the answer to these.

• It appears we've got a leak in the wall from what looks like seepage through the brick in the outer wall. How does one go about sealing brick? ( Read more... )

On another note, I'd like to commemorate the fact that a year ago I had my appendix out ( Read more... )

The new flat is the first time I'd moved in several years, so I though we'd make a fresh start of things with regards to utilities.

Actually, that's not true. I wanted to keep things as they were, since they were doing fine, but reality got in the way of that.
Phone
I loathe BT. A landline is only used these days to let marketers call you. BT have ( Read more... )