I’m very busy at the moment with various things so I thought I’d sit down and tell you all about it. Now I’m here however, I’ve decided that I feel too ill and am going to get in bed and watch some House M.D.. Hugh Laurie is the man! I’ll catch up at the weekend… promise?
I’ve been playing with AJAX recently and I have to say that I’m starting to like it a lot. I’ve been playing with prototype after Dan at work suggested it to me. I’ve not used java script before but I can see straight away that prototype takes away so much of the hassle and provides some really simple and intuitive interfaces. After my next incarnation of my website I’m going to get some nice ajaxie stuff in for viewing and adding comments I think, that would be nice.
tomorrow night I’m attending a ‘packing party’ at work where we’ll basically be putting brochures and letters in envelopes i guess… should be a laugh, beer and pizza have also been invited. I’ll also find out in the morning if I get the daily spin of the wheel of justice for a chance to win a weekend city break or get the car washed by my manager. When I spun it last Tuesday (The first outing of it’s newly resurrected life) I won a round of hot drinks for my department from anyone I nominated, Joe got the honors and a mediocre cup of tea was brought over from the vending machine. Impeccable service though, would definitely go back. lol.
It’s now my second week at i to i and it’s going great. I got to travel down to Nottingham uni to give the students their more information on what we do. For anyone who doesn’t know, i to i operate volunteer projects around the world. Anything from Help Teach and Care for Children in Cambodia and Coaching soccer in Moshi, Tanzania to Building homes in La Esperanza, Honduras. How cool!!! I can’t wait to go on one of their experiences, it’ll be great. If anyone is considering doing a bit of travelling or taking a year out, have a look at the site, there’s loads of things to do! Tell ‘em I sent ya’! 
In other news, Claire, Sam and I have given in our application forms and paid our application fees and are now in the process of securing our house, woo!!
[rant]Why when I just want to get something done quickly is the whole internet undergoing maintenance? firstly I pop over to Twitter to find they are messing around with something, grrr, fair enough. Then I decide that before I do anything else I’ll pop my new Linkin Park cd in and copy it to my machine so I can listen to it on my mp3 player tomorrow at work… denied! It seems the musicbrainz server is undergoing maintenance as well! Boooo![/rant]
Very soon I’ll be leaving home for Leeds as I start work as a junior PHP and MySQL developer on Tuesday. This means that whilst Claire, Sam and me are looking for somewhere I’ll be staying with Claire and Sam will continue to commute from Ripon to Leeds, not something I’d like to join in on.
So whilst I’m very excited about moving and getting a new job I’m nervous about the same things. All the normal questions, will I enjoy it, will they like me, will I be good enough for them? I’m bricking it!
We’re off to view a house tomorrow and on sat so if things go well, we like a house and it’s available then we could be in a new house in a matter of weeks, cool!
I have to say I will miss building with Steve as it was a challenge and I’m definitely a lot fitter than when I started, even if i don’t look it 
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