Saturday Jun 28, 2008

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There's bloggery afoot...

So, another week gone, and I've had little chance to check out SG again. Bah. Wish I still had my old office.

Anyway, this week I got annoyed at being told to help out with some stuff that was basically data entry after spending the first part of the week programming an intranet site that does some rather clever things if I do say so myself. I kept it to myself as I didn't want to seem up my own arse, but really I didn't do 3 years at uni to do data entry.
Work stuff ahead - not too much of a moan but you might want to skip it, so:

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I'm beginning to feel rather under-appreciated and I'm thinking of getting the fuck out of there. I've been doing lots of reading and coding this last week and I'm confident that I could now write some pretty sophisticated websites, including database driven ones, (haven't done it yet, but it looks fairly straightforward actually,) although I couldn't do e-commerce sites yet, but I think I could probably learn how.
In addition I also know how to set up and maintain a web server and I have plenty of experience in photoshop for the web so I'm starting to consider the idea of setting up my own business/going freelance. I could do everything from start to finish - write the code, design the site and even set up hosting. At the moment it's just a thought, but one I'm considering more and more seriously. I have a year left to pay back a loan I took out and my boss wants us all to read books he's got on web marketing etc, so I think I'll stay where I am for the next year, rinse those books and create a little file of stuff for myself, (which will make me look really eager and score me brownie points at work,) which I could then take to the bank as research etc.
My immediate manager is also I would guess in the top 10 in the country, (possibly top 5,) for web marketing - he's had people from Google comment on how well he does his job, (seriously, our MD does not appreciate some of the talent he has working for him,) so I'll rinse him for knowledge too. He's said he's going to set up on his own in the not too distant future and has always said he'd give me a job as soon as he was up & running. We get on really well both personally and professionally and I think we'd make a good team, so I'm going to pitch the idea to him about setting up together.



Now on to the big news:

ME AND PINKS HAVE GOT A FLAT! WOO McFUCKING HOO!
It's in the area we wanted and for the price we wanted. The bedroom is huge and the lounge is big. The bathroom is a little small, but not too bad and the kitchen is a little bit pokey but there's really only going to be one of us in there most times. Anyway, it's really nice and there is a little back garden for the kids, (cats,) and it has great views of the suspension bridge and Hotwells from the lounge window.
We've just paid the deposit and agency fees this morning and pending references, we move in on the 1st August.
Hot shit.

Last Friday we met up with the Bristol Massive, including the lovely Nikhita:


Bristol's number 1 Dallas Green impersonator, Kristoph and my favourite age-related jokester TheKnives:


and the always enigmatic Zamuzel:


for drinks:


Couple of random photos:

I saw this in my mate Dave's house. I'm secretly hoping he'll give us it as a housewarming gift, but I doubt it as his mum probably made it or something.

This for Ortus for his "faces in strange places" project.


Lastly, I finally resurrected my webcomic, Exotic Soup, last week after a 10 month hiatus. I'll try and get another one done tomorrow, but here's the latest one:
Exotic Soup
It seems like , Webcomicsnation where my comic is hosted, is not loading at present, so try again later. Unfortunately, my own site is down at present as I can't afford to renew the hosting, but I might look into hosting it myself in the near future.

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killa_:
theres a massive 3d cut out thing of Wall-E at my cinema. Like life size, all its sides and everything.
It did make a noise a few months ago - but i think its died now. its awesome.

You could hang it from teh ceiling lots of room in the flat for that!

I've not seen or even heard of Westworld.. Should i be ashamed of myself?
emma_treasure:
thanks for the advice hun, gonna take some time to think about stuff. gonna take advantage of my last couple of days not at work tho!! biggrin

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