New Beginnings

Tomorrow I start my new job (“Yea for me”). It’s a company I was already familiar to me, which is also a new experience. I’m both excited and nervous; excited about new challenges, but nervous about new challenges (I hope that clarifies it). I’m hope to blog about the new job as it progresses.

At the same time as starting a new job I’ve also taken on a new project. The website of the Isle of Man Scout Association is currently down and without a webmaster. My son is in the 5th Douglas Scouts and I volunteered to take over the site (seemed like a good idea at the time <smile>. It looks like I’m not going to be in it alone though, there’s another volunteer. More details as the site is developed. 

“The time has come,” the walrus said

In just 15 minutes I off to the train station to start the journey to the Isle of Man. Furniture is already there, wife’s there, sons’ are there. I’m the only one left.

So long and thanks for all the fish.

More from the IOM.

Moving day is nigh

Not just nigh, the removal guys are working around me. Family is already en route to the Isle of Man and I'm here watching them load the van. I finish work Friday afternoon and am on the boat Friday night. It's all go, go, go.

Post more tonight on how it went when I'm home alone (not Home Alone as in the movie of course...).

Things are progressing…I think

I can’t believe that I’m moving to the Isle of Man in 2 months…need to start packing. I’ve given notice at work (my replacement started today) and to the landlord, so I guess it’s too late to change our mind now.

After going thru Internet withdrawal for 4 months I’ve been spend far too much time on the computer, but that’s par for the course for me (I can read the report card now “Must try harder”). I’ve spent a little time on the format for the blog (still needs work I think, but needs entries more).

Just a quick note today, post soon (promise).

“So much time and so little to do. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it. Thank you.”

As said by Willy Wonka.

Firstly, I have broadband (finally). It’s taken a while, but I’m back up and running.

Unfortunately it’s just in time for me to say, “I’m moving at the end of the summer.” This is the bigger move though, back to the Isle of Man. Family reasons has convinced us that it’s time we moved back to the IOM and the end of August is the best time for us. This means packing (again) and deciding what is worth taking with us (and thus paying to have it moved) and what I should say “I haven’t unpacked this box in 5 years, do I really need to move it again?” (you know the drill).

This means that I don’t think I’m going to hit all my gaming goals this year, but my immediate priorities have changed.

If it's not one thing it's another

Three months after moving into my new house and I'm still without an internet connection. I've been told that it should be up in the next two weeks. However as it stands when my broadband is set up I still won't be able to connect with my computer; it crashed big time 2 days ago.

My pc has a restore partition (i.e. no disks, it just restores to the original factory settings). When my wife was playing solitaire on Thusday it apparently crashed and booted the restore (this is what I can decifer from a non-computer person description). The default restore keeps the userfiles, but restores the rest. the computer tries to reboot, but fails and reboots again; over and over. I'll try a complete restore (basically formatting the work partition) and see if that fixes it. If not I don't know when I'll be able to afford to either fix or replace.....

If it's not one thing it's the other........

Moved In 2 – The Saga Continues

Officially I’ve moved in. Unfortunately still no broadband, that means keeping this updated has been difficult. However most of the unpacking, putting up, putting together, etc. is done.

I’ve been able to do some figure painting just not as much as I would have liked to. I’ve finished some Lord of the Ring units (Harad warriors and the Betrayer for example – pictures to come), but then tragedy; my glasses broke. They weren’t the greatest prescription and planned to order a new pair this week. Now I’m forced to wear an old pair, which is fine for general day-to-day, but horrible for detail work like painting, and my new pair won’t be here for 2 weeks. Then I’ll be painting ever night (yea, right!).

The big pain of all this is that now I’m moved in…watch this space. Will there be a Moved In 3?