if anyone at Lateral is looking at this – remember, I did it in a single afternoon! Love your site by the way…. added it to my links page (whats_best). saw this (thanks to codestore ) and thought it was a great laugh! I remember how I felt when someone told me my favourite supermarket in Wellington had a singles night on Tuesdays (or was it Wednesdays?), and the sign you were on the prowl was a bunch of bananas in your shopping trolley. Being virtually addicted to bananas and shopping most nights I was mortified – all that time and no one ever made a pass!
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Living Death in the IT Department?
hmmm…… I’m trying to find a job at the moment but I’m not too sure that I like offices anymore (or if I ever did for that matter). When I think of the offices that I have worked in they have all been crap (except one – which was newly renovated and brilliant). As I write this I’m sitting in an office that really fits the “crap” description. These kind of offices have probably started out OK but then gradually degenerate over the years as more staff are squeezed in and people are moved around the office. They often have a temporary feel, as though “we’ll get round to sorting it out in a few months”. This unpleasant environment doesn’t fill me with the urge to sit down and attempt to work. Maybe I’d just rather be a slacker!
The revision of the site is coming along (beta 0.02), however, I expect that it will take a few more weeks yet.
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London
The other day I arrived back in london. The weather has been a real shock, I was used to seeing the sun every day in Spain. I have started work on beta 0.02 of the site. The aim is to complete the site to what I had originally envisaged (but didn’t have time to do). The layout of pages is to be determined by CSS, and I am adding in a little more organisation and functionality. It should look a little nicer too.
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New Zealand
StosselAtl:
We’ve had lots of great questions, and we’ll only have time for one or two more (sorry Disney 55!).StosselAtl:
MMSimon asks: If you could live anywhere besides U.S.A., where would it be?MsGrammar:
New Zealand, no question. Before I went, people kept saying the people and the food would be boring. But the food was fantastic, and the people were like all the characters from Lord of the Rings. They were colorful, and entertaining, and because New Zealand is an *underpopulated* country, they were just so glad to see you. -
31.07.1917
Bought a Seamus Heaney book when I was back in London. Read a poem about an Irish soldier who died on the 31/7 in WWI. After I had read it I realised that that was the current date! I thought it was pretty special anyway…. Sevilla rocks, love the old Moorish stuff and the cathedral is massive.
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Big city blues
Have arrived in the first really big city since leaving the UK a month ago. Walking through the streets we see a poor man with a terrible facial disfigurment. Think ‘Elephant Man’ and make it a lot worse…. I was too freaked to even look at the poor fella, let alone go up to him and give him the cash he was begging for. It bummed us out. Later in the day we saw a tourist (who I guess was a doctor) talking to him to see if there was anything he could do to help. It was touching.
We get back to the van to find that it has been broken into and some of our stuff has been pinched, including all my CD’s. DOH!
Needless to say, we preferred Porto to Lisboa.
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Bullrun
Love this country! The spanish love to party. While I’m not too shook on bull-fighting, the San Fermin festival at Pamplona is pretty cool. Had a go running with the bulls, and watched a televised bull fight. It was gory as hell and I really felt sorry for the bull. While all the english speakers condemned the sport, someone pointed out to me that in UK/Aus/NZ/US we treat animals better than we treat our parents. The spanish are family oriented and don’t pack the olds off to a home when they become a hassle….