Well it’s fairly quiet in the office at the moment and my boss is out for the afternoon so I can spend a quick 5 minutes with a little update.
S0 the job; it’s proving good, very good and interesting. This is probably the biggest reason I haven’t posted much as I’ve spent so much of my time just reading and learning. For those that are interested I am primarily working with HP 9000 servers and a few blades, for those that don’t follow the link, they’re simply big bits of kit, very big and very cool, if you’re into this kind of thing. I would put up a link to the teams website that I work in but it’s internal only unless you’re a software partner, so sadly no can do. My working day is starting at about 8:30 and I’ve been leaving about 5 but going to aim for 4:30 in the long run. The plan being to get home ahead of the rush hour and get out on my bike.
I’ve been doing a lot of training, trying to get up to scratch with HP-UX basically. I’ve got a fair chunk of linux in my head which is proving useful but there are some things I am having to learn from scratch and get used to. Still it’s all really good experience and a lot of the training I’m doing is the kind of thing I can definitely put on my CV etc.
The house, the house, we’ve had a few problems. Nothing catastrophic but small niggly things. As far as I can tell it is the fault of the letting agents own mis-communication promising various things that plainly couldn’t happen. Such as us not having access to the loft or the full use of the shed, as such we are quite a bit down on expected storage. Thankfully we can use my parents loft and Kita’s Mums garage but it’s not ideal and a bit frustrating to be honest.
We should have a phone line and broadband all sorted by the 1st week of August all being well. We’ve got an order with Sky and managed to get a Sky+ box quite impressively. Having Sky TV is largely down to the house not having an easy aerial to get to but there is a quite accessible Sky cable. So we’ve gone with Sky TV and basically got broadband for free, all works out at about the same price so it’s a bit of a bonus 
Of course the very good news about this is Kita will be able to blog, regularly Also once that is sorted I’ll get some amazing photo’s she took up on Flickr for you to enjoy.
Anyways, that’s enough of an update for now. I know I’ve left stuff out but really need to get stuck back into learning some more about HP-UX 11i V3!
Dan
15th July 2008
6:23 pm
Glad to hear everything is good with the job and reasonable with the house.
How’s Kita? I understand she came up last week, but only found out as Ben was walking out the door to see her.