Three week update
It’s been three weeks since the last update. Rather a lot has happened. Without much time to punch out strenuous detail, I’ll scribble a rough outline. The first three weeks of August were the first three weeks of my new job at RealVNC, a big change. It’s been going fairly well, doing work on Windows device drivers (groan), learning the annoying features of Win32 my life was missing, and having fun building my toolkit with some great guys at work. So, that’s going well.
Week one of work was spent on Rob’s floor (thanks for fun week!), waiting until we move in to our new house (three friends sharing), which we did at the weekend. My mega-logistics had a few shortcomings, but stocking up on the contents of a house and unpacking was mostly successful in two days. Still to be sorted are the furniture, which I now realise I strongly should have ordered from Ikea before we moved in, since they are so slow our beds are arriving next week, and also a few rooms still to tidy and make homely. It’s an excellent house.
I went to the first weekend of the proms, which was brilliant, just before coming to Cambridge for work, and have done quite a few since then. I’ve been on a buying spree, and have all sorts of lovely new things, like an HTC Desire S (I caved in). I finally have a comfy pull-up bar, which is killing me. This weekend, I have Sarah and Jon’s wedding. I’ve been reading a book or two each week recently as well, and have churned through, among others, Le Comte de Monte-Christo, Persuasion, and Anna Karenina. Getting much more into techie news now that my new co-workers keep me up-to-date on all the latest developments; now adding back some feeds to my stream I had dropped and following the latest chips and software again (Xeon E3-12xx is officially the only thing you can buy >10 W range, and Solaris is still king, but no-one in the office quite agrees with me on either of those yet; all that remains is to actually buy a Xeon and run Solaris on it). Cooking is mega-fun. Suet: one pack down, more to follow.