Thursday, May 25, 2006
The story so far...
Far in the unchartered backwaters of Ireland's west, in an unfashionable part of town...You can tell that I have been reading the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy again lately, can you not? Well, not exactly reading, but watching last year's movie on DVD and indulging in nostalgic remininiscences of first, early teen experiences with computer games.
What else have I been up to all this time, you ask? So here is a little roundup of the major events in the life of your's truly in the past months:
I found a job at the end of last October as a PHP developer at a small company in Galway called Advance Learning, which is in the business of selling ECDL course ware world-wide. I have been working for them full-time since, and so far it has been a good experience. Which means I am still living in Galway and in the same appartment. From August last year, until last March, I had a German flat-mate, who was here on an Erasmus ("Orgasmus") exchange at the NUIG. Funnily enough, he was from Heidelberg, but he is too young that we could have known each other from the time when I was living there.
I went on a trip to Wicklow with him and some of his student friends, also mostly from Germany, at the end of February. The valley of Glendalough in the Wicklow Mountains has, IMHO, one of the most beautiful landscapes in Ireland. Very different from the rough and dramatic mountains of the west. I did a few weekend trips with my motorbike and, since Easter, with my new car, but only to small sights in the vicinity. I still want to go to Donegal again and maybe visit Belfast for 2-3 days.
In March my father and my younger brother came to visit me in the course of their one-week holiday in Ireland. Unfortunately, the weather did not play along at all, and in consequence first I became ill and then my brother got a serious cold. Naturally, the weather was at it's best the week just before and after their visit...
Apart from that and work, life has been a bit uneventful, save occasional walking trips with the Mountaineering Club and a very short visit home around Easter. Instead, I explore my inner riches, develop my skills as a web programmer and make plans for the summer, where I will go to Lithuania for the LBW (see previous posts). After this event, I may go on a little trip through eastern Europe or maybe to Finland, I have not decided yet exactly.
So far for now; I may do another post about my current programming projects soon. I think, I will turn this blog into a more technical oriented journal anyway. Writing about interesting articles I read, code snippets, tips & tricks etc., you know what I mean. Talk to you soon.
