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thoughts from my last day at datacom

February 1, 2008

everyone is being extra nice.

i got taken out to coffee and a bottle of wine and a giant (although relatively empty)  card.

im sad at losing my work music playlist. it only has 2959 songs on it, but it has been about a year in the building. just flicking through now and i love every song that it randomly falls on. it is balanced so well. lots of smiths and morrissey, a heavy proportion of metal mixed with lots of pumpkins and pixies, while being intersected with works from chopin to wagner to orignal eairly 90’s metal. let alone the skinny puppy to distillers additions.

it all has been slowly bought in from home, which is quite a cool way to do it. for at home i normally just listen to albums etc selected from a playlist containing everything in my library. hopefully i can devise a system that would allow for many smaller random collections.

other things i will miss:

emporio being 20 meters away. its so nice to be able to walk into the coffee shop in the morning, sit down and have then just bring you a coffee. its more amusing when gavin, my workmate, walks in and the guy has to ask him ‘one or two?’.

ahh having a morning routine. coming in, checking your dailys (del.icio.us\rekarnar\daily), implementing the soultion to the problem you were stuck on at cob that you solved in your sleep or in the shower or some such and then moving into the rest of the days dev. balancing the urge to check the ten other webcomics or news site/blogs that you know you have to read sometime soon between finishing the current algorithm your coding before you lose the flow.

free friday lunches! today is subway, last week was pizza. beer and wine at 4. donuts on mondays. ahh you are looked after in the corporate world. feed them inhouse that way they will not take a lunch break and will get right back to work. the cost of lunch eaisly balances out the extra 30-60mins work you get from employees.

adrift in the sea of this life. letting go, very exciting. oh where will it take me. fittingly current music: Wagner – The Ride of the Valkyries. very epic.

ahhh and in speaking of that. i just got a call from avatar. right this second. they have work for me on monday, my was to be first day of un-empolyment. maby im ment to be an actor 😉 loal.

hrm.. ok desk cleaned. all the stuff i needed backed up to my ipod. random bits of paper i want in my bag. i think im ready to leave. ill stay around for drinks at 4 and maby a good by or two. there is some people i will miss my casual acquaintance with (most likely at least ;).

what a life changing few days eh. also last night my flatmates found an awesome house to move into. so chances are we’ll all be moving in a few weeks. wow. lyall bay so im told. what an enthralling trip life is.

“I’ll show you what he did, But I won’t take the credit, It’s not mine anyway, I just held the pen that day” – Flyleaf.

such a spectrum of emotions you can feel at once eh.

also. how amazing is water? not sure? well then ill tell you. its pretty damn amazing!!!