Last week I handed in my resignation to NDY. If you've read some of my previous posts you'll know that earlier this year I wasn't the happiest camper at work, and during that time I sent out a lot of applications for other companies. However, before I left for America things were shaping up. I was going to a new awesome project, and the company was ( Read more... )

So the flight to America was without incident. I took the Perth-Sydney-Dallas-Houston route, which had a total flying time about 20 hours plus a few for the stopovers in between. I got a decent amount of sleep (yay those funny pillows you wear around your neck), and watched the recent;y released Australian film "Sleeping Beauty". It was a good ( Read more... )

Yesterday at work didn't end well when a contractor didn't understand my very simple instructions and the builder sent me a pretty unprofessional email blaming me and cc'ing in my bosses ( Read more... )

Do you have a LinkedIn profile? If so, how have you found it so far?

 So hey, stuff:

• X-Men First Class wasn't too shabby. It did get a little silly near the end but overall was lots of fun. The actor who played Magneto was pretty good and Wolverine cameo was really funny. Some elements of the movie definitely had a classic 007 feel about them. I'm looking forward to Transformers when that comes out near the end of ( Read more... )

 So hey, stuff:

• I'm currently reading Shades of Grey by Jasper Forde. It's set in a world where some "event" has happened that causes everyone to only be able to see a certain range of the colour spectrum, and a whole class system has established around this. It's very comical and I've moved through it pretty quickly. Definitely a recommend if you' ( Read more... )

 So, yeah, stuff:

• So after four weeks of crazy work stuff things are under control and nothing lit on fire. A project in crisis, my boss being away and one of my mentoring engineers leaving our company meant a few weekends in the office at lots of early starts and late finishes. This week won't be a walk in a park but it'll be a lot better, plus it' ( Read more... )

 I got one of my Book Depository books today. I'm happy one's arrived but didn't realize I'd get them one at a time.

 Yep, more dot points:

• I turned 25 last week! I definitely feel older, though that's probably because I'm (supposedly) a big grown-up engineer yet. Thanks to everyone who sent me happy birthday messages. Lots of the people in the office remembered, and I even got a surprise muffin.
• Work was batshit crazy this week with lots of drawings going out and ( Read more... )

 So this is a post exclusively about work, with some movie stuff thrown in:

• My boss left early on Thursday. He called our team assistant from the road and told her (in a very calm manner) to cancel his appointments for the day because he was having chest pains and was driving himself to the hospital. Apparently he's doing okay, they're just keeping ( Read more... )