UrbanSeven

This is my London Travelcard, it get’s me to and from work each day and gives me unlimited travel on the London Underground so that I can get from my house to the Waterloo…where my train to work leaves from.

It cost me £277.70 or $568.81 Australian Dollars! So it’s currently my most prized possession.

Work has been pretty good lately, been doing heaps of design work and am currently working on a new version of one of our sites and my boss has started teaching me Linux, PHP, and SQL

Looking for some new hosting too at the moment, got the latest hosting bill and it’s just too expensive for what I am getting (Australian hosting is just expensive) so I will be moving to either a US or UK host before the end of the month. Hopefully no one will notice any changes and thus have no problems but if you do let me know. Damo, Martin, Justin and Mum you all have email with me but if all goes to plan I wont need to do anything.

_B

This is a Northern Territory Barramundi that my Dad caught a few weeks ago whilst on a fishing trip. It was 1.16M long and must have weighed a tonne. Not the record but from what I hear pretty close.
This weekend I am going to the London O2 Festival which should be good, no Amy Winehouse but Counting Crows, Powderfinger and my favourite Jay-Z will be there.

So I’ve been back here in London for a couple of weeks now trying to get settled in, get a place to live and find myself some work.

I got myself a nice new laptop (Samsung R700) so that I can keep blogging, do some work and take advantage of the free wireless in my new place, that’s right I also found somewhere to live
It’s a studio apartment in a share building so to speak, most the places in London are like this (where they convert a house into a heap of separate rooms. It’s good cause I have my own kitchen and bathroom too, but get to meet people as well.

Unfortunately I am still looking for work, hanging out for a good job I think, I have an interview tomorrow so I hope that goes well. If not I think I will just have to bite the bullet and take a shit job until I can find something better.

I did a little sight seeing when I first arrived as you can see above I visited the Buckingham Palace during the changing of the guards, that was pretty sweet….loads of people and it took forever.
I also checked out London bridge and the London tower which were also really nice. Once I get a job and some money I will check out the things that cost like Madame Tussards, The London Dungeon & The London Eye.

All in all I am still having a good time here, it reminds me a lot of Melbourne but that’s properly just the weather…totally need new clothes once I get a job too.

Leyton is sending me a HDD with TV shows and movies I have missed so I am really excited about that because going to the cinema here costs a friggen fortune!

Well that’s it for now, I know I have said this a lot but I will try to blog more often….I know it will make my Mum happy

_B

Last night I was driving home in the rain and lost control on a bend in the road. I tried to brake and then accelerate out of the slide but there was just nothing to grip onto and the car slid straight off the road. Don’t really remember what exactly happened next as it was all too fast but i smashed into a heap of trees on the side of the road and came to a stop backwards just touching a fence. That fence was blocking off a massive drop down an embankment.

I jumped out quickly without a scratch on me but my baby was totaled. My insurance should consider it a write-off which is what I am hoping for because my excess is $1250 and I can’t really spare that just before xmas.

Fingers Crossed.

It’s been awhile since a regular blog entry so here goes it.

Umm I’ve been back a couple of weeks now, first week was good just to relax after the pretty full on trip (as you can see by the NZ entries). I had my job interview/meeting 2 Friday’s ago and all went well for me to start the Monday week, I was kinda glad because I was enjoying my holiday life and needed another week to get use to getting up early.

So by lunchtime on Monday I was officially over my holidays….I was soo freaking bored I made myself some party finger food (biscuits, olives, ham and cheese), cracked open a bourbon and watched a cooking show….definitely time to go back to work. So I guess Tyrone must have been in-tune because he called that afternoon and asked if I could start on Wednesday….WoooHoo!

The new job is awesome, heaps more challenging then my last job with loads more opportunities so I am extremely happy…having money coming in again instead of just going out is a plus too.

_B