IT Admin

That’s me. I am now looking after a nice little network and getting my head around a couple of new servers and some solutions that I haven’t worked with before. As the position is new there is not a lot of pressure, just a big backlog to work through. They have even asked me to fly down to one of our other offices to “advise” on their new network and say “Hi” to the folks. I will be doing this exactly 1 week after I started. How good is that?

The people I am working with are all very nice and I have to say that I am really enjoying it. There is a good atmosphere in the office. I am a little bamboozled by how many tasks I have on my “to do” list but as most are at the stage of “do when I get to it” its great, very little pressure.

I know that I am writing this after only my second day and therefore I’m still in the honeymoon period, but hey let me enjoy it 😉

Oh and the outsourced IT guy that looked after the servers that was in today to do a brain dump to me was impressed that I was running the excellent Dapper Drake (Ubuntu/Gnome/Debian/Linux) on my recycled (Thanks Sharon) laptop at home. So my little geeky side even got a smile today.

Job

Just a quick note to let you all know that I am now employed again!

I will be in charge of IT for a property development company based in Clonskeagh. I will be able to walk to work with Gwen and they seem like lovely people.

I’ll let you know how it goes. I start on Monday…
I am happy as Larry!

It was actually great because I got offered a few jobs at the same time and was able to choose my preference.

Cool eh?

Fun in the Sun

Believe it or not we are having beautiful warm (25 degrees) weatherDundrum Town Centre here in sunny Dublin. It really has been brilliant with the city putting on its best summer face and Gwen and I have made the best of it. This weekend we were treated to a load of free wine tasters and nibbles at our local sopping centre (Europe’s biggest). I think you’ll agree the place was looking well.

We then made our way into the city centre and ended up at the Tall Ships festival at the Liffey Docklands. Beer!!! There were loads of stalls and even one selling beer, so we were happy as you can see. We happily just enjoyed the nice relaxed atmosphere, the sun and the music. This city really is a great place when it pulls out all the stops.

We also celebrated our two year anniversary this weekend. Yes it has been two short (or long, depends on how you look at it) years since we first went on that fateful date after my first Friday at work. Who would have thought our drinking competition, I mean date, would end up with us engaged on the other side of the world…. I think I am sobering up, quick Gwen pass the wine ;-).

We had a lovely dinner in Dun Laoghaire (good luck getting your lips around that one Kiwis, its pronounced Dun Learee) at the 40 Foot restaurant on Saturday evening and a Champagne lunch at home on Sunday just to keep it simple ;-).

A quick note to all (read anyone) in NZ and Oz that I haven’t been in touch with, apologies but just keep watching this space.

I’m still waiting on feedback from both companies that I have interviewed with, seems like the biggest wait of my life, but as we all know “good things come to those who wait”…