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Half an hour of swearing at stubborn battery terminals, getting very dusty (must vacuum this weekend), borrowing pliers and listening to Queen at high volume and my UPS is now purring away happily :-) I am feeling very proud of myself at the moment. Had a worrying moment when it looked like the UPS wouldn't release the original battery, but the pliers turned out to be very useful for that technical skill of "yank really hard" and it's all finished. Mother was even impressed to see that I had my own Philips head screwdriver.
Well, d'uh. I also have a complete set of allen keys. I'm a geek and an archer.
Just remembered that I've forgotten to set up a new string for my bow. D'oh! Will have to use the old string tonight and hope that it doesn't continue unravelling. Silly me :-)
Had another agency call out of the blue - this seems to be the week for it. He's sending me some job notes ("We don't get job specs in this business") and I'm going to call him tomorrow. It's definitely not the perfect job and I'm not convinced about it. Apparently the company wants an IT person to act as the buffer/liason between the different sections of their development teams (technical writers, testers, developers, Q&A) and it 'might' develop into a development role if that seems to be where my strengths are. I'm going to take a look at what the guy can produce, research the company a little, but I'm not sure. Does this sound like one of those wishy-washy jobs where I'll spend the next five years being told that I 'might' be able to move into development next year? The recruiter sounded a little concerned about my freelance work ("You're not still doing it, right?") and I didn't get the best vibe from him. Hmm.
Guess I should get back to learning about garbage collection in PHP and let things fall as they will.
Well, d'uh. I also have a complete set of allen keys. I'm a geek and an archer.
Just remembered that I've forgotten to set up a new string for my bow. D'oh! Will have to use the old string tonight and hope that it doesn't continue unravelling. Silly me :-)
Had another agency call out of the blue - this seems to be the week for it. He's sending me some job notes ("We don't get job specs in this business") and I'm going to call him tomorrow. It's definitely not the perfect job and I'm not convinced about it. Apparently the company wants an IT person to act as the buffer/liason between the different sections of their development teams (technical writers, testers, developers, Q&A) and it 'might' develop into a development role if that seems to be where my strengths are. I'm going to take a look at what the guy can produce, research the company a little, but I'm not sure. Does this sound like one of those wishy-washy jobs where I'll spend the next five years being told that I 'might' be able to move into development next year? The recruiter sounded a little concerned about my freelance work ("You're not still doing it, right?") and I didn't get the best vibe from him. Hmm.
Guess I should get back to learning about garbage collection in PHP and let things fall as they will.
