I am going to leave. I really am. I am still at work I don’t know why. I just found out that one of my friends who was in the same training “bootcamp” was riffed on Friday. This was a guy who was trying to get me transferred to his group.

I blame for this 🙂
1. I have all tori amos’ albums and seen her in concert twice.
2. I love cats, and visiting people who have them, but don’t have any at the moment.
3. I watch buffy.
also:
4. I’m over the age of 17.
5. i don’t have a webcam that is not switched at the moment.
6. I will correct my spelling and grammar if i know it is wrong.

Just got back from lunch with about 15 people. Today is sign out date for a lot of people at my company. It is sad and fun saying good bye to people you have worked with for more than 3 years. I also saw the noc schedule they want me to work 6 am to 10 am a couple days. When I saw I went “You can not be serious”. The honest true is that I am not sure what value it will be to have me there doing that.
I am waiting on someone calling me back. I also got an email from an HR person at an other company doing Unix Admin type work which should be fun. I haven’t hit the websites today. I still have to go through the job in the washington post on Sunday.

More presents. I am not quite sure what my parents were thinking, but I got a cheque for 3 pound 50. This is a cheque that I talked to my mum about a long time ago and the agreement was that she would pay it into my bank of Scotland chequing account, but here it is sitting on my desk…… I also got a book by michael lewis, the future just happened. “With his knowing eye and wicked pen, Michael Lewis reveals how much the internet boom has encouraged great changes in the way we live, work, and think…..” I don’t think I am in the right mood to read this just yet. Be careful what you tell your parents. I told them that I have been going through a celtic/scottish music phase, so now I have a couple more CD’s one is for doing scottish country dancing too, the other is celtic music, I haven’t listened to them but I might need a partner to test the dancing one.
The last thing in my package other than the various credit card statements random bits of paper is a books on the history of Irn Bru. I just learned that during the war soft drinks were rationed and the manufacturers were told to make concentrate juice like orange squash. “The government encouraged concentrate (squash) production because it would save resources (being diluted five times before consumption, leading to saving in fuel – less deliveries and less consumer visits to the shops). The Second World War thus resulted in a large and unique mass market for concentrates in the UK”
That was one of the things that amazed me when I first moved to the US. I wondered why I couldn’t buy orange concentrate. I have learned to live with this but I always wondered why everything in america was sold in large un concentrated form.
I am going out tonight with HY and her roommates. I better finish eating and get over there

I got my first birthday card yesterday 🙂
One from my parents that plays Happy Birthday when you open it. One from my sister which is a play on a computers crashing and one from my granny with drinking vouchers inside 🙂 They are in the British denomination so I will have to wait till Xmas before I can exchange them for beer. The Card from my parents had a piece of brown tape on the back of the envelope. I wonder if they opened it thinking it might be bomb because of the electronic bits in it.
I also got an amazon gift card from Elaine and a parcel of Cadbury’s chocolate from my sister MMMM and Veggie cook book from HY.