2 posts tagged “vacation”
So the Highline Festival David Bowie was putting together was going to be the highlight (no pun intended) of my summer this year. Notice the past tense there? David has made it known that he won't be performing at the festival himself, because he's too busy with another project. He is, however, still curating the thing.
That's all very nice, but I think in that case I won't be spending a couple of grand on spending two and a half weeks in NYC. So all of the sudden I have a little more money and loads of time on my hands. While I'm disappointed about the festival, I am very happy with my brandnew 250Gb external harddrive, which will finally let me back up my concert pictures. I have been a little paranoid about losing those, since I have no backup of them whatsoever. Another wannahavensoon is a 19" TFT monitor. I saw a very nice widescreen one at MyCom which is just dying to be bought. Then I can finally kick out those bloody useless CRT monitors I have lying around everywhere. Storm is going to dislike that, since he likes sitting on top of it :)
The other day I had a half look at the Monster job search site and updated my resume. Two days down the road, I am being harassed by headhunters. It is very flattering, I admit. Three jobs are looking very interesting. One at a bank (network engineer), one at an international internet services company (Unix admin) and one at as a Security Analyst with an international company. All look good, especially the third one, but I haven't heard back from them yet. The first one is a recruiter chasing me and the middle one has already booked me in for a job interview, though frankly, I have second thoughts about how strong my UNIX skills are at the moment. But hey, they're chasing me, so can't hurt to have a look.
It's actually very food for my ego and after hearing we're in for another rollercoaster ride at my current job, I have kind of had it here. I think I am ready to move on at this point. No idea how this will work out, but it's encouraging anyway.
...asleep, I suppose, preparing for tomorrow's busy day. Put the horses out in the field, race back home, catch a bus to the airport, hang about at the airport (the worst part of flying), get to Dublin, check into room type place, hook up with the others, wander over to the Point... etc.
...but I'm not asleep. I'm not even fully packed yet, but maybe 85% there (toothbrush, camera, laptop, junk). Instead, I'm kicking back, drinking really sugary sweet tea an solving a last minute work problem. Got to love these 24/7/365 shifts. I'll need to remember to do the overtime paperwork when I get back... Wee, more time off in 2007. Like I didn't have about 2.5 weeks left out of 2006 already. I suppose that brings my total time off for 2007 on round and about 40 days. Yes, that's 8 weeks. What will I do with myself? Oh, right, go to some gigs... I suppose I'll manage that.
I wonder if this movie will be dubbed in Dutch. If it is I'm so taking my nephews to it for Christmas and expose them to their first bit of (evil) Bowie. I'd love to go a bit nuts with them and get them interested in music in general but their parents (my brother and his wife) are a bit fruity about some things, so I doubt they'd appreciate it. I don't think anyone is capable of living up to their standards Whatever. Never thought my bro would be so hard to deal with, but then I suppose we have kind of grown apart a lot lately. Our lives are just so different, so contradictionary.. Sometimes it's hard to imagine we're family. Except, of course, one of the twins is the spitting image of me as a child, so I suppose there's some genetics going on there. In a couple of months I'll have another niece or nephew... Weird that, from going to the smallest family on the planet to a fairly big one.
Positively rambling now, kind of mellow. Very neat... I need to sleep.
