New residence

Sunday, I'll move some stuff into a friends house in Totterdown, Bristol, where I'll be renting a room. He lives within a mile of Bristol Temple Meads train station, so I can get to work in about 35mins using the train, this will be bliss compared to a 1hr15 motorbike ride. I could cycle too, but there's no showers in work. If I catch a non intercity train from Bath, I could run home from Keynsham or another station on the way back.

There's triathlon clubs in Bath and Bristol, so plenty of opportunity for some new training partners too.

First week complete!

Wow, first week went quickly! Really enjoying, great to be at a place of work with likeminded individuals. The work is interesting and varied and I've had a good result already, I'll spare you the techie details though.

first day

started a new job today!

went for an interview yesterday afternoon and started this morning :-)
working in Bath for Future Publishing (they publish about 120 magazines including a lot of the sport ones and almost all the computing ones).

I have a (just under) 3 month IT contract, yay! which may get extended. (I'm not writing articles or anything!)

Back to W3C School

Been applying for contract IT jobs since last Friday, so it's been time to get back to School again, specifically to refresh my knowledge of XML, XSL, XSD, RDF, JMS and SOAP.

http://www.w3schools.com/

Back In Training

This week I've started training again...

Mon - UWIC Run, 5x600m, 4x400m, 3x200m (skipped one 600, one 400)
Tue - Early morning Swim with Gareth, 1750m
Wed - Ride with Julian, reverse Wed C/G, came back with the slow group.

Could feel the endorphins kick in after the ride, cycling seems to do this the best.
I needed this!