Aug 142008

This one from Cataclismical – thanks :-)

4 Places I’ve Visited Over and Over:

  • Las Vegas
  • Brighton
  • Anywhere far from crowds (in contrast to the above two)
  • ASDA Isle of Dogs petrol station

People who call/text/e-mail me regularly:

  • My wife
  • My bank
  • Pimps

Favorite Foods:

  • Curry
  • Anything else spicy

Places I’d Rather Be:

  • See first three of four places above
  • Maldives

Movies I’d Watch Over and Over:

  • Flushed Away
  • You’ve Got Mail
  • Shrek

Bands/Groups I Love To Listen To:

  • ABBA
  • Genesis (Peter Gabriel era)
  • Beatles
  • Johnny Cash
  • Boudewijn de Groot
  • Queen
May 152008

A few friends and colleagues find themselves between jobs at the moment (evil credit crunch and all that), so I’ve come up with a few things to do whilst unemployed:

  • Find a new job – bit obvious really, but should be a priority, even if you’ve got wads of redundancy money. It will run out.
  • Don’t just chill out for too long as you’ll end up feeling pressure to do something, or to get a job.
  • Don’t think people envy you for having free time. They don’t. Play the pity angle ….
  • …. which means people will buy you drinks, thinking you can’t afford it :-)
  • Learn something new. You do have free time, so take advantage of it. When I had a few months of at the beginning of this year, I decided to learn PowerShell and blog about it. Stop doing this new thing once you get a new job.
  • Buy more lottery tickets.
  • Play the latest Wii/XBox/PS3 game to completion. In my case, it was Zelda – Twilight Princess on the Wii.
  • If you have a live-in other half, do a higher percentage of the housework.