It appears that I've neglected my blog for a little while – 7 months and 1 day to be precise, buty who's counting? Amazingly, they haven't deleted it - probably because they appreciated the incredible writing and pure genius of what I had to say. So I thought I'd write a new entry. In fact, the real reason I'm writing the entry, is because it's a miserable rainy day outside and I'm simply bored! Here's the dreary view from my window:
You see how bored I am! I've taken a photograph of the rain from my window! You cannot get much more mundane than that!
You would have thought that in 7 months, enough events would have occurred to give me something to write about. ...But no! Well, actually I'm exaggerating; there have been a couple of major events:
The biggest event is that I have started a new job. In a semi-sad event, I left Mintel and have just started a new job, still (as always) a programmer, but working in a totally new industry: oil-trading. So far it has been a bit daunting, but exciting. I haven't quite got to grasp with all the financial instruments (these cool names like: forwards, futures, options and swaps), but I feel like I'm slowly beginning to understand them ...which is obviously a good thing!
I have not taken any photographs of my new office yet, as I don't want to give my new employers the impression that I'm a bit weird. No doubt they'll discover that I am in fact weird soon enough, but I'm going to try and let them think I'm normal for as long as possible.
Anyhow. I’ll try to write some entries more frequently, if only to waste web-space. I’ll leave this entry with some final photographs from Mintel, on my last day.
As long as you remember oil's priced in $US you'll survive, thrive and enjoy. All sounds exciting to me.