I had a week of planning this week as I prepare for my next piece of work. The creation of tasks, thinking about risk and estimating how long stuff is likely to take is the lion share of it. Funny how long one estimates only to have ones manager half it. I overestimate, I guess, for the unknown, worst case scenario. Feels good though to be in the planning phase again.
Continuing with my weekly runs, 3rd week now. Still haven't signed up with the gym outside work, nor paused my membership at gym at home.
Was up until 2:45am on Wednesday and paying for it yesterday; I had a mental block and couldn't get my head around the last question in my uni course assignment. It was to do with making an animation by constantly drawing on a canvas with a graphics object and because you get a pre-defined bunch of classes and methods - I have to do it within the constrains of this...they remove the code and tell me that here is where I want to do this or that...silly - I'd normally do it a different way. That said, animation is not interesting to me and I don't want to ever use it. So I probably got full marks for all the questions, bar the last one.
Was 20 minutes for my last Dentist appointment - still saw me, that was good. My last appointment should be next.
Been not really involved in too much reading but I have everything I need if I find myself read-y. I figure it's because of all my night runs and assignment work over the last week.
Got a new running partner this week, and yesterday was the end of the first week of running. When you know how beneficial running, getting-out and having a social amble is, you start seeing the differences, not only on your own mental, psychological state but also in people running with you. Healthy does a lot for you - it's kinda great. Sometimes when I run by myself I'm not running just to feel fit, I'm running away from the mental thought processes that bombard me ever waking moment and demand my absolute attention. I guess, that's a great way to do that and get the oxygen flowing.
Interesting, yesterday I was reminded that I'm not on Facebook and I just wondered right then, how that would just add to my list of have to worry-abouts. So glad I'm free of that!
Visited Citrix research and development offices in Cambridge and was pretty much mesmerised. Kinda how I imagined a software company to look like - we had a tour around, introductions and pretty much saw how big boys play with their toys and I was pretty envious. They had a great space, atmosphere, chill-out rooms, table tennis tables, a cool kitchen...but it wasn't my home, obviously and felt that I missed our little office in London, Nessled away in a quite space, but a lovely space... It will be sad when I leave.
I got my share of stress yesterday, worked to complete something that was uncompletable. Was for a customer and my superiors had managed an expectation that was a bit rough. Anyway the next day we came out on tops.
Had another run tonight and really enjoyed it, even went to see a exhibition at the Tate modern all up in our running kit - it was pretty fun. That said, we clocked 11km between taking note of the architecture, scenery and running. Long may these night runs last!
My site is now living on a new server, and should be running like the wind with my older server still serving me mail, spam and other things that are hard to differentiate burden from pleasure...it's pleasure mostly I think except for maintenance trouble like server overloaded, running out of disk space ...that sort thing.
Well, there you have it - the last week crammed into a blog post.
Arivadechy
Continuing with my weekly runs, 3rd week now. Still haven't signed up with the gym outside work, nor paused my membership at gym at home.
Was up until 2:45am on Wednesday and paying for it yesterday; I had a mental block and couldn't get my head around the last question in my uni course assignment. It was to do with making an animation by constantly drawing on a canvas with a graphics object and because you get a pre-defined bunch of classes and methods - I have to do it within the constrains of this...they remove the code and tell me that here is where I want to do this or that...silly - I'd normally do it a different way. That said, animation is not interesting to me and I don't want to ever use it. So I probably got full marks for all the questions, bar the last one.
Was 20 minutes for my last Dentist appointment - still saw me, that was good. My last appointment should be next.
Been not really involved in too much reading but I have everything I need if I find myself read-y. I figure it's because of all my night runs and assignment work over the last week.
Got a new running partner this week, and yesterday was the end of the first week of running. When you know how beneficial running, getting-out and having a social amble is, you start seeing the differences, not only on your own mental, psychological state but also in people running with you. Healthy does a lot for you - it's kinda great. Sometimes when I run by myself I'm not running just to feel fit, I'm running away from the mental thought processes that bombard me ever waking moment and demand my absolute attention. I guess, that's a great way to do that and get the oxygen flowing.
Interesting, yesterday I was reminded that I'm not on Facebook and I just wondered right then, how that would just add to my list of have to worry-abouts. So glad I'm free of that!
Visited Citrix research and development offices in Cambridge and was pretty much mesmerised. Kinda how I imagined a software company to look like - we had a tour around, introductions and pretty much saw how big boys play with their toys and I was pretty envious. They had a great space, atmosphere, chill-out rooms, table tennis tables, a cool kitchen...but it wasn't my home, obviously and felt that I missed our little office in London, Nessled away in a quite space, but a lovely space... It will be sad when I leave.
I got my share of stress yesterday, worked to complete something that was uncompletable. Was for a customer and my superiors had managed an expectation that was a bit rough. Anyway the next day we came out on tops.
Had another run tonight and really enjoyed it, even went to see a exhibition at the Tate modern all up in our running kit - it was pretty fun. That said, we clocked 11km between taking note of the architecture, scenery and running. Long may these night runs last!
My site is now living on a new server, and should be running like the wind with my older server still serving me mail, spam and other things that are hard to differentiate burden from pleasure...it's pleasure mostly I think except for maintenance trouble like server overloaded, running out of disk space ...that sort thing.
Well, there you have it - the last week crammed into a blog post.
Arivadechy