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25: Last Day @ Work

Friday, December 9th, 2005

Uh Oh – That’s it! I had my last day at work today..

Strangely enough it has not yet sunk in that I will not be working anymore for the next few months.
(No doubt I will sink in with a big BANG though once there is no salary coming into my account anymore ;-))

Still, no more getting up in the morning to drive to work, no more struggles to pick edible food in the canteen 😉 and no more traffic jams to worry about to get to work or hokme from work (no doubt on my travel I will be sitting in much worse t-jams though).

Talking of driving to work I will (call me crazy) actually miss driving the last bit to work i.e the B924 (exiting A90 towards Dalmeny) and in particular the little stretch of Main Street West which leads towards Dalmeny and down to Station Road. Simply beautiful that stretch especially in the morning with the sun coming up. Hardly a day I drove up there where I did not admire the scenery 🙂

Colleagues will be missed no doubt and it was quite good fun working with the lot 🙂 I am pretty sure I will not find such a good mix of people to work with anywhere else that easily!

Work.. what can I say… No more defect fixing (is this good or bad? after all finding that darn sorce of a defect is quite satisfying in the end.. of course one easily looses ones mind every now and then to get to that point of having fixed a defect..), NO MORE PVT (woohey! Dare I say this IS …… GOOD NEWS? (Actually the best news is: No More M……. Specials, right? The right people know what I mean ;-)). Actually no more daily computing for that matter.. gee I will be on cold turkey for quite a while and I bet Internet Cafes will be desperately seeked out to get a fix of computing and internet browsing once in a while 😉

On that note I shall try to cut down my computer usage so to lessen the withdrawl symptoms when I’m actually travelling 😉

24: Large/Small Pack

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

Still need to work on my backpack content.. managed to reduce the gear by a bit but it still seems too much.
Since the backpack is a lightweight pack the design is rather slim (little depth) which makes is a little
difficult to pack. Right now it looks like a skyscraper when I put everything in.. way too tall 😉

I wonder if I should reconsider the pack and get a different design, though ultimately – going by weight – it is more likely I should reduce my gear than get a bigger pack.

The pack is 60+10 liters which isn’t small judging by the numbers but the full capacity I only get when I do extent the pack to the full length. It is designed for this but I don’t think its very stable when it extends that high up let alone it looks really silly 😉

In reality the backpack is more like a 50L pack when in its normal size i reckon so it seems to make sense that I struggle to squeeze in my stuff.. Hence the thought of getting a different pack.

23: 1 Week To Go

Sunday, December 4th, 2005
Can't believe it's two weeks since I last updated my blog space. I've been so incredibly busy preparing my trip and getting ready to move out of my place.. madness!! Well by now only my backpack gear is left in the ... [Continue reading this entry]