Week 2: I need to get better at just going to bed.
Seriously. I'm utterly rubbish at just going to sleep when I'm on my own, I always manage to find something generally pointless to distract myself with and then it's sometime after 1am. Being home means I should get to sleep well though. I also completely failed to get anything useful done with my evenings instead just faffed around on the internet and played DoomRL.
The hotel, well inn, I stayed in this week was a bit rubbish really. They're renovating it next month and it needs it. The whole place looks on the outside quite nice, but the inside feels run down and in need of new carpets, wallpaper, paint bathrooms, the works really. The mattress on the bed was soft (though it could have been worse my colleague in his room could feel all the springs), the pillows were those shitty foam ones you get in cheap hotels, and the quilt was of the same standard. Thankfully the room was a twin, so using both quilts and both pillows (the one beneath folded in half) worked quite well. The power shower was also rubbish and totally lacking in power. The shower did come attached to a proper sized bath, however the bath had no plug; so that wasn't an alternative either. Finally I'm getting a feel that you can tell the quality of accommodation, by the quality of the Tea/Coffee/biscuits. Two unpacked teabags, the typical freeze dried coffee, and digestives. Digestives! Plus no biscuits at all on the final night!
On the plus side the pub part did do pretty nice food for cheap. So even having to spend £60 on the room I've made a little money out of the allowance this week.
Work wise, location aside, I'm enjoying it. I'd forgotten just how much fun writing simplish scripts in something like python can be. Especially python, there seems to be a library for anything vaguely complicated I want to do, and many simple things too! I've easily got the best assignment out of the rest of my colleagues too. I don't have to work with the tangled mess of legacy code, don't have to learn much about telephony stacks and protocols (again), don't have to deal with trying to make stable test frameworks to work in unstable environments, just piece by piece automate a series of manual steps to launch the load tests, gather and analyse the results, and maybe at then end build a nice UI front end of it.
Plus interesting work, makes the week go faster.
The hotel, well inn, I stayed in this week was a bit rubbish really. They're renovating it next month and it needs it. The whole place looks on the outside quite nice, but the inside feels run down and in need of new carpets, wallpaper, paint bathrooms, the works really. The mattress on the bed was soft (though it could have been worse my colleague in his room could feel all the springs), the pillows were those shitty foam ones you get in cheap hotels, and the quilt was of the same standard. Thankfully the room was a twin, so using both quilts and both pillows (the one beneath folded in half) worked quite well. The power shower was also rubbish and totally lacking in power. The shower did come attached to a proper sized bath, however the bath had no plug; so that wasn't an alternative either. Finally I'm getting a feel that you can tell the quality of accommodation, by the quality of the Tea/Coffee/biscuits. Two unpacked teabags, the typical freeze dried coffee, and digestives. Digestives! Plus no biscuits at all on the final night!
On the plus side the pub part did do pretty nice food for cheap. So even having to spend £60 on the room I've made a little money out of the allowance this week.
Work wise, location aside, I'm enjoying it. I'd forgotten just how much fun writing simplish scripts in something like python can be. Especially python, there seems to be a library for anything vaguely complicated I want to do, and many simple things too! I've easily got the best assignment out of the rest of my colleagues too. I don't have to work with the tangled mess of legacy code, don't have to learn much about telephony stacks and protocols (again), don't have to deal with trying to make stable test frameworks to work in unstable environments, just piece by piece automate a series of manual steps to launch the load tests, gather and analyse the results, and maybe at then end build a nice UI front end of it.
Plus interesting work, makes the week go faster.