Personal update 2,397

Hello there, beautiful people. Hope you are all well and that things are going nicely, wherever you find yourselves. A quick entry to update you all on the recent happenings. As you might remember, I got a job, for a very big company... sadly I have thought about leaving that place, though it is a great opportunity. It is tragic really, but the thing is that the travelling taking me between 4 and 5 hours a day.

I am looking for something in Central London as crossing the city underground every morning and not seeing it, is breaking my heart. That and the fact that my quality of life has not improved, quite the contrary. I seem to be spending only 1.5 hours a day of 'quality' time with my wife. So to put it plainly, it pretty much sucks and I am tired of it already which is affecting my ability to adapt. I am disappointed as I am sure some of you will be too, but I believe it is the right choice.

Apart from work, well, I managed to read a fair bit, mainly books that I either thought they were shit ('Hannibal' by T Harris and 'Jim Giraffe' by D King), disappointing ('Overtaken' by Alexei Sayle), just OK ('The Golem's eye' by J Stroud and 'Balthasar's odyssey' by A Maalouf) and the few that I really enjoyed ('Across the nightingale floor' by L Hearn, 'Lost in a good book' by J Fforde, 'No 1 Ladies detective agency' A McCall Smith and 'The Odessa file' by F Forsyth).

I am currently reading the latest book from one of my favourite authors 'Restless' by William Boyd. It is rather small but it is flowing as nicely as I wanted it to. The only thing that really pissed me off was the fact that the very last page, printed on the underside, had a fucking advert for a fucking chocolate bar. Have some self respect!!! Shove adverts to Bridget Jones' shite!!! You wouldn't notice it there, but fuck off and leave my books alone!!!

Apart from that, I have manages to neglect the blog, the future podcasts have remained in a planned version rather than having been recorded, I have not played my bass or used the metronome I got for Christmas... Moan, moan, moan, I nearly sound Australian, ha ha ha ha...

Better leave it here and send you all my best wishes and hope to be able to transfer to another job sooner rather than later. But fear not, I will remain a Corporate Whore from now on...

Visitor 1000

Greetings and hopefully welcome back!!!

If you could please look at the counter on the right side of the screen and if you are the visitor number 1000 please leave a comment just so that I know who visited the blog for the thousand time and what you thought about it.

Anyway, hope you enjoy it and I am interested in what everyone has to say about this little space. Don't think I am going to diss you simply because you're not a landmark reader.

Anyway, have fun and hope you enjoy it, let me know what you think.

Happy New Year to all!!!

If there is anyone out there still looking at this page, I would like to thank you and apologise for having neglected it in the last two months.

No, I have not disappeared up my own arse after having found a job... The thing is that considering that I had been off work for a little while, with the trip and before that surgery, it has taken me a bit longer to adjust to the whole thing, than I first thought it would take me.

I have changed the title, because I am afraid I am slowly becoming a corporate whore. Finally I got my break into a big company and actually managed to land the role in a SERIOUSLY BIG company. One of those that verge on HUGE. And before you even start thinking wrong again... NO, it isn't because of that either that I have not 'bothered' to update this little space.

The main thing that is preventing me from posting updates here is the fact of having very little time. Despite having friendly working hours, I have to cross the entire city from the outskirts of one end to the complete opposite side of the outskirts of the city. This takes me (being honest with you) two hours door to door. So I have to take away an extra four hours to my day just on travelling to and from work. Isn't that a bitch? I am getting shit loads of reading done, which is nice, but comes Thursday night I am knackered. I am only just beginning to go out to meet up with friends. It has taken me a month to just start getting into the travelling spirit and all.

It has been good but I am still adjusting to the whole thing. To put it plain and simple, in the office site that I work at (the smallest of the two), work 4,500 people and that is just office monkeys. The 4,500 doesn't seem to include cleaners, caterers or people like that. That is crazy. It took me nearly one week to find my way back to my desk after having a cigarette. By the time I returned they had called a search party and were looking for my floating corpse to pop up in the moat any time soon. It is good and it is bad, the grass isn't greener on the other side. I miss my friends, I still don't feel 100% into the whole thing, but I am taking their money and and running home.

I hope you are all OK and that things are going nicely your way. I will try and update more often and hope to have entertaining stories to share with you all very soon.