I’m sitting back at home after my first week on the job. I’m enjoying it so far, the work is interesting enough and the people are friendly – plus the promise of money at the end of the month is incentive enough.

I’m currently looking for a flat in Glasgow to stay in, going to look at a few on Dumbarton Road on Monday, hopefully one of those will turn up to be a good un.

So Matt was standing bouncing a bouncy ball against the wall and was catching it. He was doing pretty well and was catching most of them, only “spazzing” a few. I decided that this was too easy and that he should try and catch the ball in a bucket that was lying around. After a while he had this mastered, I was going to have to think of a more ingenious ways of making it harder. Therefore I said that he should strap the bucket to his head and try to catch it, after a few attempts at catching the ball he had cracked that as well. Therefore I suggested that he should throw the bucket at the ball, trapping it underneath. Matt then bounces the ball off the wall and brings the bucket down over it. The ball then bounces off the inside of the inside of the bucket, off the floor then into Matt’s eye. It was a-hell-o’-a-funny, he officially “spazzed” it big style causing some residual pain in his eye socket. He was seen by myself minutes later with his hand to his forehead saying “If I press here it doesn’t hurt as much”.

After all, in this topsy-turvy world, aren’t we all just trying to catch some kind of ball?
- Chris

Matt suggested to me yesterday that we each blog at least once a day, I feel dubious about doing this as if I have nothing useful to blog I will end up writing a post about what I had for dinner or what other people had for dinner.

So everything is coming together at once, I have my newly updated site up and running now, with just a few minor changes to make before I can start properly populating it. I have, as I mentioned earlier just finished my job, after a long grueling 11 weeks (1 week more than originally intended) I have finished working on the DECS project. It feels good to be free, I can stay up as late as I want, stay in bed all day without feeling guilty, not have to clutter my computer with that hideous, hideous code anymore. Altogether it has been good working on this project, especially getting the opportunity to see what working on such a large scale legacy system (or at least the beginnings of one) is like, by the way I don’t recommend it to anyone, at least not to anyone who doesn’t like reading lots of source code.

So now I have some extra time on my hands, in fact a hell of a lot of time. I recon that it’s time to get myself a new hobby (rather than sleeping, eating and drinking as it has currently been). I intend to learn to play the guitar (properly). I have owned a guitar for years and have never been so inclined to learn to play it to any great extent. With all this free time on my hands I can hopefully aquire some sort of musical skill, if not I can probably get some cool pictures of me holding it… more likely I’ll get a whole album of pictures then get bored again. So for now it’s off to dust off the axe and try to remember the pitiful number of chords which I once knew.

Are you ready to rock?
- Chris