2005-06-26 09:51:00
Currently at the office, so I'll make it a quick one :3
I must say that it's quite refreshing! The last couple of weeks I've gone to work without any reluctance whatsoever! Not something that could be said while I was still employed at $PREV-CLIENT.
Instead of working on menial chores and being confronted with mis-management I am now able to give my best effort to building something real ^_^ Gone is the need for procrastination (trust me, I wasn't the only one) and welcome are the days that are filled with hard labour! I may be tired at the end of the day, but I'm also a lot happier!
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2005-06-23 12:55:00
Currently at the office, so I'll make it a quick one :3
Things at the office are pretty okay. I'm going to have to redo my project planning to allow for some changes in priorities. Understandably so, the department head would like me to focus on our ability to bring servers back up and running after a catastrophy. So things like monitoring and backup software will need to be delayed just a little bit.
In other news: due to the bleeding hot weather and some other things I've low quality sleepy-time for the last couple of days. In the end I decided to take a day of sick leave yesterday, to recuperate a little bit. Luckily that did the trick!
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2005-06-21 12:54:00
Currently at the office, so I'll make it a quick one :3
Last weekend was hectic, but quite nice! Marli and I visited the Fields of Rock festival, together with our very good friends Menno, Peter and Wendy. While we did enjoy ourselves, we did come to the realisation that we're just not the kind of people who enjoy festivals. We'd rather hear proper recordings of the music, since the sound quality at a festival is usually crap. And we'd rather see a proper airing of the show, since we don't see much of the show anyway! However, it was kinda cool to see Black Sabbath perform live, in their original lineup. I've been listening to their music ever since I was thirteen, so it was pretty amazing to experience that.
We also went to visit my father on Sunday. 'tWas his birthday on Friday, so we wanted to go and say hi. Aside from those two things we did have a kind of relaxing weekend. We caught a lot of sun and even an extra bit of sleep :)
Speaking of "sun"... The last couple of days've been really warm over here. 33C degrees in the sun and quite humid -_- It's quite hard getting to sleep, which sucks when you need to get up around five-ish.
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2005-06-13 20:26:00
Currently speaking to my brother in Finland, through the miracle of MSN
So! It's been way too long. Come on with the updates already!
First and foremost: Marlijne and me bought a house! Starting from November we'll be living in a nice and cozy apartment right in the middle of Utrecht (a major city in the Netherlands). It's a three room apartment, about 85 square metres of living space. The main living room (3x10m) used to be divided by a wall into separate rooms, but at some point in time that wall was taken away... Thus was created a wonderfully large living room! The kitchen is stunning and only two years old, although it's maybe one fifth of the size of our current kitchen. The rest of the rooms are pretty basic, but pretty nicely kept. All in all we're quite enthusiastic about our purchase!
Second off, I started working for Snow on the first of June. While I was doing some paperwork at the office on wednesday morning the Sales guy stormed in, wanting to know if I had some time that afternoon. Naturally I did, so I was immediately sent to my current customer. The way things look now I'll be sticking around there for a month or three (possibly a bit longer), to build a proper management infrastructure for them. We're looking at building everything from scratch: backups, security, management tools and an installation platform. A pretty cool and challenging job, given the time frame.
And finally: this weekend ^_^ Snow treats their employees to a nice outing twice a year, including their wives/partners/SOs and the children that come with it. This weekend they rented a big bunch of bungalows at Port Zelande which is located near the ocean and is quite peaceful! The bungalows were stocked with good food and Snow'd organised two dinner parties for their employees. On Saturday they provided us with various activities to choose from, although joining in was not mandatory (which to me totally rocks!). Anywho, I did end up joining ten others on a sea fishing trip. We were out at sea for eight hours, fishing for mackerel. Seven or eight of us got sea sick, including me (for about an hour and a half) but in the end that only drew more fish to the boat :P
All in all out of that weekend we got a lot of relaxation, good food and conservation and eight mackerel filets :3
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