Friday a conversation in the Pub

'Your beard has got really long the last couple of days.'

'Er I've had my hair cut....'

Interviews

It's really bizzare but I've been asked to do a couple of interviews. That's interview people for a position here rather than the other way around. It's a fairly odd experience as I start by explaining a bit about the company and the position, both of switch I'd don't really know about yet...

Feb 18th

It's sorted my tenant will be moving out on the 18th Feb. Not quite sure what notice he actually got in the end as the management company got a bit confused (not good in a management company!) but it was meant to be two months.

Oh well, its sorted now, and I'll move in just after, its a Monday so slightly odd.

And I can have a sit down and decide if anything needs fixing up before I move a load of stuff back in. Most of it is just twenty metres down the road at the storage unit, so that's not a problem.

The flat still has the same kitchen and bathroom (more or less) since it was built (around 1993) so may be its a good time for some new stuff.

Anyway the Lads will be happy with hotel Dunhill will be open again for London visits, or at the very least, the sofa...

An 'Oh my god she's dropped the bottle' moment

Yesterday, at work, I managed to earn my salary before 9am and earn a few brownie points.

I was looking through the code on one of our live sites trying to find some performance improvements and I noticed there was some code to get the entire user table, which includes username, email and password for the site and write it out to a web page.

Er I wonder if you can access that page on the development server, ah yes you can. How about the stage server, oh yes you can see all the users printed out in a nice list. But how about the Live site....oh Shit! every single username and password. A very rapid flurry of emails then occurred as I got them (the clients tech team) to make the site safe and delete the offending pages.

A little later when our CTO found out (I had to tell him) a general email went around the department giving everyone a rocket (it wasn't the fault of anyone who currently works here) and reminding them to check they don't release test pages like this in future.

A trip into the loft

skis - got them out for the first time since last year from where they got dump when I got back. They're a bit more bashed up that I would have figured I guess I used them quite hard last year. A couple of deep holes that I should p-tex and perhaps give them a good waxing. But they should serve me well in March.

Staples sorted

the bill for getting my staples out - another 25:50 but they did pay in the end. I think that's it and I'm now in a position to work out how much the crash actually cost me.

Sunlight

sunlight - it's just starting to get light in the mornings the sunrise happens while I'm on the train on the way in. It was so much nicer even on Monday morning for it not to be dark.

New year at the gym

Its a new year and its very very busy at the gym near work and it's smelling quite bad too. An entire sea of new years resolutioners are jamming up the works and making the place busy (read sweaty urgh!).

I notice it on the way home as well, lots of red faced people on the homeward train. I guess it will all die down again in a couple of weeks. I do think though it is starting to have a benefit.

I'm going a couple of times a week or more and hopefully I'll be in a half fit state for my walking trip at the end of the month, the Brecon Beacons, let alone my upcoming ski trip

Doing the crane

At the physio again

This time he had me jogging around, running up fake steps and standing on the most tricky balance board to date.

The jogging was a little faster than he wanted and he told me to slow down, I figured at that point I then won't tell him about running on the machines at the gym. The fake steps just go up three steps and then back down again, in the corner of the room, and apart from me failing around a bit, need to practice my balance, I was okay with that. On the other hand/foot the balance board was really hard, a 30cm round wooden disc with a wooden cone fixed to the bottom, I couldn't get it to stay horizontal at all.

The rest of the exercises where all around me standing on one foot a trying to go into a crouch, sort of a geriatric karate kid. he's happy with my progress and said that next time, in four weeks time, may well be the last time I need to see him. I'm still deciding if I'm going to tell him I'm off skiing!

Review of the Year

Spent 28 days in Foreign countries

Worked only 135 days out of the UK normal of 252 days
but managed to increased my salary by 47%

Managed to resign one job, then get hired back with a promotion. Then get made redundant and finally get another job for much better terms.

Spent 7 1/2 months with crutches or walking sticks and 2 nights in hospital

I know lot more about knees and ligaments

Became an Uncle again for the third time.

Got a new bike and a pair of skis

Rented out my flat without any problems to just one tenant.
Lived at my parents for 11 months

Did interviews for 6 different jobs

My 2007 carbon footprint includes
Total for flights = 2.303 tonnes of CO2
Total for bus & rail = 0.726 tonnes of CO2
and I should offset by planting 6 trees (about 4.380 tonnes)

Didn't change my weight at all and still weight about 13 1/2 stone.

Joined a gym (LA Fitness) but haven't tried any of the classes yet. I go about twice a week and I'm back to being able to jog.

Only brought myself 4 CDs

Joined Facebook in April

Had a beard at three times over the year.

Went to one music festival (Leeds) and one gig (Beatallica). Already have tickets for this years festival.