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Exciting times!

Soon my contract is over… I’m jumping ship and taking the lifeboat! That’s right, got a new job already. And i’m excited about it. I won’t name names yet. As i have yet to announce all this at work But fuck it, fuck them all! I wanna write about it here.

This week i signed a sweet contract and i’m all set for the bigger and better adventures in the epic world of Apple! 2 February is the day. Amsterdam is the place. Repairing Macs is the mission!

I hope i can become a happier dude again. Who feels good about doing his job and does not wake up every morning only to snooze that alarm clock and almost miss the train just hoping i will actually miss it. But only trying to miss it after thinking of calling in sick for the rest of the year.
That’s not me, not my style and i feel bad about it, about doing it and it’s not how a person should think about work.
But yea, it’s that bad!

Anyway, i can count down now! 52 days and counting…

So i got lost this week…

So i got had a job interview on Monday, which didn’t go very well i think, and thought i’d take a little shortcut back to the trainstation. Not thinking that one through i stumbled off in a completely wrong direction and found that out after like 10 minutes of walking. Nothing i recognized had appeared yet so i looked like a lost tourist.

Luckily some idiot didn’t protect his wifi signal so i could borrow his internet for a minute to pinpoint my location (in combination with the GSM signal of course) and i returned to the trainstation shortly after that, unharmed.

iPhone to the rescue

Distractions are my excuse! Events is broken…

So with version 1.5.3 and probably 1.5.2 and even 1.5.1 a bug was introduced that the ending time wasn’t calculated properly.

Cleverly found and reported in this thread: http://forum.at.meandmymac.net/topic/endtime-returns-start-time-fix-included

Apologies! The error is corrected and you can redownload the version 1.5.3 and replace wp-events-functions.php with the new file. Just overwrite the thing, you don’t even have to disable the plugin or anything, just FTP it over the existing file.

Lately i’m a bit sloppy and slow on following up with updates. New job opportunities are the main reason. I have a lot on my mind because of it. Also some changes on my current job do not make my life easier… So viola!

Anyway, to fix the endtime issue, redownload the plugin. This is such a minot fix i made no new version out of it.

Fucking Deja-vú

Change of management seems to suck! Especially when you don’t seem to fit in “the plan”. And if somehow for no known reasons you make a wrong impression which is entirely the opposite of the truth it gets nasty! Been there, done that… Not up for going through it all over again! It’s only been 3 years or so. Go away!

Honestly!
Let me do my fucking work! If i do it right and there are no complaints (nothing else than some small incidents anyway) leave me be! Go bother someone else… Make yourself useful!

Yea… I’m angry, frustrated, annoyed, moody, irritated (random order) and now also very tired! Tired of constantly having to explain my every move, being watched and checked upon. Being questioned and engaging in talks to defend my “me” and why i’m not the person they have labeled me.

Must … ignore … the … sting!

next stop groningen?

After a 2 week radio silence Google finally got back to me about giving me a job. 2 weeks ago i received a lengthy email from a recruiting guy from Google London. Explaining that they [Google] were looking for a Datacenter Technician and inquired if i was interested. And was i… I was thrilled to even receive the email. No less surprised! I never did hear anything from my earlier application. And now this… After reading that, i turned my attention to my cellphone, which has that annoying habit of beeping/buzzing and in any other form possible try to get my attention for every event i missed and never stops until i check up on it. Presumably it was Google London who tried to call me since the phone number matched up. So i pondered for a moment decided it was a great opportunity and sent an email back in which i told them i was seriously interested.

Then nothing… After a week (last friday) i mailed them again asking about the status and now today i received a phonecall from Google asking if i had time to do a ‘screening’ by phone. Which i had, so he went on asking me all kinds of things about networking, PC’s in general explained a bit about the working conditions and environments and such, that they offer a competitive salary and all that. After like 20 minutes i think he was satisfied so far and would talk things over with the gang and he or something from the datacenter will get back to me in the coming week or so for a phone interview.

So i have to keep my phone close now and keep it charged.
Also i’ve been sniffing around for a house in the region there. Seems cheap and do-able enough.
It’s on the other side of the country… And no, 6 hours traveling time per day is not an option for me