Quitting My Job

I  am into my second work day after finishing up at Consolidated Travel. After five years and two months there it is a bit odd not having to think about it (but I am getting the hang of it :-)).

Now I am thinking about how to gear up for my new job which I start in a couple of weeks. There is part of my that just wants to kick back and do sweet FA but the other half is looking at the pile of books and magazines that are sitting unread or half read that I should start making a dent in.

For example I have Charles Petzold's "Applications = Code + Markup" which I have only just started in on it and it's a good two inches (5 cm) of book so maybe I'll dedicate my time off to that.

My japan trip or the blog that never was

Well so much for my grand plans to blog about my trip to Japan. First I get nailed by power plug issues and a seriously flat battery (fixed that one in Hiroshima) only to discover that my accommodation in Tokyo was not quite as wi-fi as it claimed to be.

Let me say that the Bed & Breakfast Zen in Asakusa was actually damn fine accommodation. Basically you get the top floor of a private house.you have your own entrance, a small, though not quite functional kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and living room. On top of that Mrs. Takeuchi cooks a very good Japanese breakfast (I can't comment on the western style breakfast since I tend to go native when in Japan).

Ahh but the wi-fi issue. The main reason I chose B & B Zen was that it advertised itself as having wi-fi. Technically it did and it was secured as well unfortunately Hemaji, who managed Zen, had a friend set it up so he had no idea what the access key was or how to log into the router. What this meant is that the only way I could access the Internet was using his laptop during the morning in the dining room. I guess on the up side this meant I couldn't login into work, which in turn meant that I didn't think about which meant I actually had a holiday. 

One shouldn't really complain should one