Train of Thought

I’ve joined another social website: last.fm

I’m digitalreality, and the house music computer is ladyhamilton. Spotting why it’s called that shouldn’t be hard if you know a little about me.

I’m looking forward to hearing some new music.

I’m one month in, and I’ve not even blogged about it. Oops!

I’m on sabbatical for around a year. I’ll try to write a little about what I get up to.

Late last year I was thinking through my options, and decided it was time to try something a little different. As I was wrapping up for this sabbatical, I ran through all my holiday records. In nearly eight years of working in the UK with 5 weeks of holiday time each year, I had only once had more than a week in one go (And that was to come out to far-flung parts of my family, so was good, but not stress free!). What would I be able to do if I had a little more time?

After ten years in the software industry, I’m in the position to take some time away from my regular job as a sabbatical. I want to see if I can learn some things about myself:

• Do I want to integrate more cycling into my habits?
• Do I have the capacity to start my own software company?

I’ve got a year to figure out the answers (Eleven months from now…).

I thought’d I’d share the pic that Jenny mentioned.I assume it was as tasty as the other products Konditor and Cook sell!

I’m not the worlds biggest fan of Valentines day, despite being a bit of a romantic at heart. meish.org says it so well!

Hello to my readers from Symbian who may be missing this posting from ‘Chat’.

 My photo album for 2007 is now live. As usual, I’ve removed images of people who don’t appear on the web elsewhere. The rise of flickr and the like means there are more people here!

I bought some Swedish cheeses as a christmas present for my Dad. Can anyone translate the labels, so that he can explain them to folk who want to try them out? There are three:   

With thanks to my Mum for a lovely Advent Calendar!

A couple of weeks ago, we went up to the Lake district to join the LYPWG for their Christmas weekend. Richard knew most of the people there, but it was my first time to meet them all. It was also my first time in the Lake District. 

As the photos show, the conditions when we walked (the photos are from a walk we weren’t on, but I bet our photos would look similar) were not much fun. However, hindsight is a wonderful thing, and I now look back  on a fun weekend. The fancy dress party certainly helped!

I’ve uploaded a photo album. 

Thank you Jelte for the £10 you owed me. Betting against a gay man on male TV and film star identities wasn’t your finest move!

Jelte owes me £10.