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20 Apr 2007 First week in Oxford

[Misc] How's it going? I've had my first week in Oxford and so far so good.

For those who don't know what's going on in my life I was offered a new job in Oxford. It promised me a decent advancement in my career (read that however you wish) and I took it. I handed in my noticed in my old job a month ago and, although they were sad to see me go, they wished me well. Standard issue stuff; pub lunch, gift, card, cake, hand shakes, and so on. Still I am going to miss all the people downstairs...

I wonder if they've found my replacement yet.

So back to my new job in Oxford. From now on I am no longer a web developer by profession; henceforth I am focusing my skills upon Flash and Actionscript to develop games. Finally, a chance for me to pull my finger out of my ass and do some Flash games. Plus the company is brand new, so we've gotta make everything from scratch, which is good for me as I likes making things from scratch.

The guys at work are nice enough, not really had a chance to get to know them in great detail as we're focusing on work. The only real except is my boss. The weekend I moved into my new house in Oxford he invited me out to a mini pub crawl across Cowley Road to get me familiar with the area. This is quite odd for me; a boss man being friendly and social? But still I went, had a few drinks with him, chatted, and found out he's a pretty nice guy. And I'm not just saying that because my boss is probably reading this entry.

It seems to be the norm, being very friendly and social in Oxford, not like it was back in Andover. The night I moved to my new house my housemate invited me to the pub, paid for all my drinks (as I was short on cash at the time), and even paid for my takeaway (again, short on cash). The new house has two students and a hippy librarian and they have a student, laid back attitude to life, which suits me perfectly. Not sure if I like being the oldest in the house though....

So yeah first week in Oxford is good. Nice job, nice people, nice house, en suite, what more is needed?

Well I needs an Internet connection. It's been a week since I've been able to play Second Life.

Um yeah.... Second Life... That'd probably justify another article.

Posted at: 13:42 PM

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