Week 7 and 1...

Yip.. had to take a look at the Win caldendar to figure that one out, but we have been in the UK for almost 7 weeks now (scary thought) and I've finished week 1 of work, which to me is always a nice thing to report..

Work week 1 : An interesting blend of emotions ( as my previous two posts describe in their own way and I'm not going into it again ). Been up and down about it, but mostly it's the normal new job scenario of new things to learn.

Friday was somewhat classic though. My boss and the other developer normally go down to the pub on a Friday afternoon around lunch time, sit down and have a hearty chat about things and I was invited by the developer to join them, my response being that I'm definitely coming with, but won't be drinking because at this time I can't afford it, cash struck for a while (long story, only really get paid for the 1st 3weeks of work at the end of Apr, it's a long story.. believe me).. to which he told me to "behave".. didn't know what that meant until we got to the pub.. literally just down the street. My boss had told me it's not the closest one (while we were walking down the street), which gave me a bit of an insight into what the Brits here consider to be close... as it turns out it's about 3 blocks away from work.. I mean really.. that's not far, considering that I have a solid 10 minute walk to work from Southwark Station ( that one just for you Oct :).

I consider far to be a little more even than what I used to have to walk to get to work from Salt River station to Roedebloem Road (and even that was still a nice walk).

I digress. So ya, went to the pub, walked in, my boss asked me what I wanted and being that the only familiar name I saw on the taps was Amstel on one of them I asked for a pint of the regular (Sorry Craig, no Windhoek over here.. I wish). Boss bought me a round and we sat down to talk about all the green stuff in the pub (St. Patty's day.. officially).

It was all good fun, but 3 pints later (no lunch I must remind all the readers.. of which there is like 4 or so.. maybe :) and about an hour or two later we were heading back to the office to wait for the 17:00 sign off and goodbye from everyone for the weekend to start. Got there, took the 3 bags of crips (SA translation : Lays chips) and munched on that, hoping to counter some beverage effects.

Other than that it's been a quiet weekend. Next weekend there are a few things in the planning, but until then it is going to be a week of hard work to get up to scratch with all the systems I would like to know by around Wednesday, after which I'll hopefully be able to get some learning done on the books I bought when I got here.. some .NET.. hopefully.. soon..

Haven't heard from the G-unit lately, got text from him asking if I would be character witness for him, so he's probably already in some trouble :p Hope to see an update on his blog some time soon though.

Well, got things to learn.Hope ya'll have fun, where ever you might be.
Z