First week down and I’m still alive. Its been a close call thing with rather too much sitting on trains and rather too little sleeping. At least I’m getting some reading done.
The job itself is going OK, I’m taking over from someone I worked with a long time back, which is cool ‘cos that means I can already understand his coding style, as well as catching up with him. I’m working on Mobizines, doing mobile client programming, but won’t bore you with more details than that.
Its unusual (for me at least) not to be hit by a wall of doom entering new offices – these guys still have something of a startup buzz to them, but with a little more world-weary cynicism than my last proper startup. How bright the future is I don’t know, and I’m sure theres someone, somewhere, with their hand just reaching for the ‘doom’ dial, but in the meantime it’ll be nice to see how these guys think it should be done.
The trains this week only had one bad day (out of ten journeys), where they’d lost a train somewhere near Biggleswade and dug around in the sidings to find us another. The tubes had a couple of busy days, but not quite as bad as the days of pushers on the Yamanote line at Shinagawa.
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