the blog I meant to write...

right - I've just relinquished the internet connection to Filip ( who has wired internet nowadays?), so thought I would write the blog entry I was planning, before walking into the apartment. see earlier entry

Got up at 0430 - whats the '0' stand for? Oh My God its early!

taxi was on time, and arrived at the airport in plenty of time, then had the joys of the "express" baggage drop - which as far as I could see involved as many people as possible repacking their bags to avoid excess weight charges. So in the end not much time in the airport, before boarding, and departing pretty much on time. Got a couple of breakfst rolls and a coffee on the plane.

Arrived at Schipol airport, taxiied around for about 15 minutes after landing, before finally finding somewhere to park :-)

//TANGENT//
Sorry that reminded me of a joke.... Julio Gonzales was driving round MExico City desperately looking for a parking place to leave his car while he went to a vitally important meeting. The minutes were ticking inexorably by and he couldn't find one anywhere. Eventually - he did what any good catholic would do, and appealed to a higher force... " Oh God" he said, "If you could only help me find a parking space, I will give up tequila, loose women, and I'll start going to church again on Sundays!". As if by magic, the clouds parted and a beautiful girl pulled out of a space just in front of him, and waved him into it, whilst blocking other traffic from stealing it. As she pulled away, blowing him a kiss in the process, Julio shouted up to his saviour, "Don't worry about it, my lord, I've found one!".

//BACK ON TRACK//

Transfer time was pretty tight, so we just wandered over to the gate ( via another set of security controls - whats that all about - I can see a time in my future when they are going to cost me my connection)., and after a short wait boarded our little CityHopper ( Fokker 70) to Linkoping. HAd a big tailwind, so arrived almost 30 minutes early. Its the smallest airport in the world ( well possibly not, but it felt like it). Taxi to the office was dead easy, and we immediately headed out for some lunch.. some sor of beef steak, stewed with Potatoes, was ok - and means I'm not needing much this evening.

Finally in the afternoon, started doing some work.. first off had to setup my 'puter, was surprised to be offered a windows or a linux box, went for windows, as figured I've got enough to learn, without dredging up my unix skills. then downloaded the dev tools and the code. Everything seems to build and run, so hopefully tomorrow, someone will tell me what we're supposed to be doing!!!

well, that'll do for now.

til next time,

AG

Reading: Meltdown by Martin Baker
Listening: Love, Ire and Song by Frank Turner