Next Two weeks
I had planned to post my biweekly update last weekend, but Duple Time happened and I didn't, and then I was thinking about a filkcon post and...
Anyway since my last post....
The day after I saw The Artist (A modern Black and White silent movie) was the last Wednesday in the month and so was the evening for a Science Museum Lates opening. Due to finances I haven't been to one of these evenings in a while but left straight from work and got the 16:38 train from Gatwick to Victoria (£14.40 off peak return). Had a BK meal at the station then to South Kensington. I got to the museum at 6:00 and was in the first 3 in the queue (by the time the doors opened I was 9th!) Exhibition Road has now been redeveloped to a more pedestrian friendly location and the street lighting is very bright. The theme for the evening was Space, hence my high interest. The biggest problem with the Lates format of short presentation is that due to timing considerations it's almost impossible to get to more than two events in the three hours the museum is open. I did get to hear Dr Stuart Clark on Isaac Newton (who was more of an alchemist than a scientist, but provided the scientific method). My Second talk was by Caroline Crawford on the stars of Orion. I did see the working model of the Astrium Mars Rover but it wasn't running at the time.
I managed to forget my keys at work a couple of times, fortunately they were still in the drawer lock when I got back to work in the morning. I am now more rigorous in making sure I take them with me!
I've gone through the next stage of training at work, entering data from written reports. The example I had already completed was used as an example for the other trainees! I've also been given responsibility for managing some of the workflow ie ensuring that the priority work gets done first and no-one is twiddling their thumbs.
And then we get to the first week end in February and filkcon 2012
Anyway since my last post....
The day after I saw The Artist (A modern Black and White silent movie) was the last Wednesday in the month and so was the evening for a Science Museum Lates opening. Due to finances I haven't been to one of these evenings in a while but left straight from work and got the 16:38 train from Gatwick to Victoria (£14.40 off peak return). Had a BK meal at the station then to South Kensington. I got to the museum at 6:00 and was in the first 3 in the queue (by the time the doors opened I was 9th!) Exhibition Road has now been redeveloped to a more pedestrian friendly location and the street lighting is very bright. The theme for the evening was Space, hence my high interest. The biggest problem with the Lates format of short presentation is that due to timing considerations it's almost impossible to get to more than two events in the three hours the museum is open. I did get to hear Dr Stuart Clark on Isaac Newton (who was more of an alchemist than a scientist, but provided the scientific method). My Second talk was by Caroline Crawford on the stars of Orion. I did see the working model of the Astrium Mars Rover but it wasn't running at the time.
I managed to forget my keys at work a couple of times, fortunately they were still in the drawer lock when I got back to work in the morning. I am now more rigorous in making sure I take them with me!
I've gone through the next stage of training at work, entering data from written reports. The example I had already completed was used as an example for the other trainees! I've also been given responsibility for managing some of the workflow ie ensuring that the priority work gets done first and no-one is twiddling their thumbs.
And then we get to the first week end in February and filkcon 2012