At work, drinking coffee, and not wanting to look at the mountains of drawings that need an engineering check... Perfect time for an LJ update.

New Zealand is pretty. Particuarly compared to Australia... but that doesn't take that much really. It's not ludicrously hot, it has decent rainfall (so it's shades of green rather than brown) and the ( Read more... )

So. Work autoblocks sites with 'offensive language', and consequently remembers such. Which is rather annoying. We seem to have an overzealous IT department.

Also had an interesting chat with some drafters today, as it seems my colleague/superior is infamous for 'passing the buck' when it comes to work. Well, that is why they pay me what they do, ( Read more... )

The company I've just started work for has a small gym at the back of the main office, which is some 15min walk from where I work.

It's 24hour access - just swipe to get in and use your own personal pin number to disable the alarm.

Easy, right?

Well with the best of intentions after finishing work last night, I wandered over. Swiped myself in. Typed ( Read more... )

A quick blurb regarding the intermittently developed project I'm eventually going to run, when Em & I have moved somewhere more appropriate to host it (which will be as soon as possible, present real estate madness dictating)

Title: Blackmount Campaign.

Setting: Greywall Mountains, Breland. Eberron campaign setting.

Premise: The characters start the ( Read more... )

It went well.

Travel to and from work is going to be relatively painless: Quick hop over to Cultural Center and change to the 150 for a 15 min ride to Multicap. 20min of buses, 15-20min of walking. Not bad. It's around $7/day too, which is.. yeah. I'll just avoid manic laughter at this point

Inductions are boring, but that rarely changes. Still, some ( Read more... )

To be determined within 30 min or so of me starting typing this.

Option 1: Ausenco
Rate: $80/Hour
Role: Mechanical Engineer
Location: Eight Mile Plains
Pros: 
- Higher rate
- Forward looking management
- Freedom develop/help develop work systems to shared high standards of efficiency
- Excellent bus system to and from.
- Those I know at the company are good ( Read more... )