After notching up the best part of 500 miles driving since last monday I'm back in Bournemouth again, and facing the prospect of another 80 mile round trip tomorrow. But maybe not for much longer...
I had a look at a couple of properties in the centre of Winchester this evening, the first was a no-no (despite being only 4 mins from the office, just think of the lie-in maximisation potential) but the second place I saw is a definite possibility. It's in St John's Street at the 'bottom' of town, and is 1 minute from several pubs, a chinese takeaway and Pizza Express. A further 2 minute walk and you are in the main high street, leading up to my office on the corner of Jewry Street and St. George's Street. Multimap reckons it's 0.8 miles - although I think that's an over-estimate (because the start and end points aren't precisely on top of the house and office). Either way, it's an ideal location, and the two guys living there seem sound enough (although one of them is the one moving out) and I've gotta meet the other one. They are all friends with someone in my office and they seem to be a friendly bunch, so it all looks encouraging. I've got one more place to look at tomorrow evening, which involves hanging round Winchester until 7pm but my mind is pretty much made up. With a bit of luck I'll be moving in early December :-)
Everything with the job is going well and with the arrival of a new desk tomorrow I should be settled into my own 'space' soon and set-up my new computer (TFT? Fingers crossed!). At least I won't have to keep other people's seats warm for them while they are on holiday anymore, nor live in the fear of breaking their PC's.
The weekend past? I went to see The Matrix 3 with Georgie on Friday. I was blown away by the stupid level of detail in the battle scenes but found the protracted fight sequences between Agent Smith & Neo a little tedious. Nevertheless, I'm sure it will be a sure candidate for a DVD Trilogy screening before long. Saturday afternoon I was an able linesman for the UniS Oldboys Reserves, and came on in the second half, but could do nothing to stop the opposition leveling after we had gained 4-2 lead. Disappointing. Sunday was a very lazy day... which was nice. Liverpools defeat to Utd was less satisfying though, but at least it wasn't a stuffing like Pompey gave Leeds, that put a perma-grin on a few faces of the guys at the office today.
Fetish night looms this Friday and the thinking caps are on for a suitable outfit, although Mr Special has a good idea for us both. I'm looking forward to my first FNO (or whatever its called these days) since graduation but it's a shame I won't have been paid by then. Denied.
Just finally before I get some shut-eye: I found the sight of some tree-huggers rather amusing today, who are pitched up at Winchester's newly extended Park & Ride scheme at St. Catherines. Just so long as they don't get an ideas about letting my tyres down, they can do what they like!
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