I’ve been insanely busy with work the last few weeks, hence the lack of posts. On that subject I found a nice quote:
- Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing.
Tag: work
This week: jetlag, broke pipes and sunk dreams
It’s been quite an interesting week, although I probably would not categorize it as a good one.
It practically started of with me going back to work with one heck of a jetlag. I thought just sunday as a rest day was enough. Guess I got that wrong. Monday felt like I was dragging my heels everywhere. Frankly I remember very little of how I got by that day. I was just glad it was over.
The following days were better, or at least I was not as fatigued as I was. My wife is still in the States taking care of things for her father, who suffered a stroke. This week has been one of loneliness. I am glad I can stay over at my parents for the time being and was happy to get out on wednesday and have some food and laughs with friends.
Thursday things took yet another turn for the ‘interesting’. My father, who tried to unblock my drain in the kitchen managed to punch a hole out of the wrong side of the drain. This is not as much the doing of my poor father, who -after all- just wanted to help, but the death throes of a drain that had apparently been abused by unblocking chemicals too much and decided to give in. Next thursday the plumber will come to fix the problem.
That evening it was also decided that my hosting company, which I co-own with a friend, is going to close its doors. The reason being the ever increasing costs of co-location and fees for registering domains versus the relatively small volume of customers. Frankly, the fun had already been taken out of the job for some time now as the NOC decided to raise prices by more than 50% twice a year.
Can’t wait to see what next week will look like.
Bloody thieves
Yesterday at work we (my co-workers and I) made a startling discovery. Half of the mobiles we had for testing mobile/pda sites were missing. Considering the boxes were still there it can only be concluded that they were stolen. It really turned my already blah day into a full-blown crap day.
Oh and the good news
I got one hell of a raise on my salary. I will not go into details but it is in the double figures.
ilse media BBQ 2007
Last night we had a BBQ party from my work ilse media, which was also a good bye party for Bert Wiggers, the former Director of startpagina.nl. Bert is now New Media Director for Sanoma International and is going to work in eastern Europe. We had the means and the motive to make this goodbye a memorable one. And so we did.