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The
Journal of Alan Howard
Wednesday - 10th
April 2002 -
6pm
An update...
My life is going along quite nicely at the moment. Things
with Wakana are going really well. She suggested a few
weeks ago that her and I move into a place of our own together,
but I didn't agree with her suggestion. Naturally she
wanted to know why. I told her that after my last
relationship, I made a vow to myself that I would wait for a
year of knowing someone before I decided to move in with them,
as many of my past relationships have seen us living together
after only a very short time. I felt that I should change
the pattern and do things differently in future. Naturally
she didn't agree. So we discussed it over the period of a
few hours, and we compromised. She wanted me to move in
straight away, and I wanted to wait 12 months. So now
we're going to live with each other after having known each
other for 6 months.
Since then we've been making various plans. It's really
nice being with her, and I'm enjoying myself a lot. The
plans that we've been making have been for the next 6 months or
so. In the next 4 weeks I'm moving out of the place I'm in
now. I've started looking already. This will be a
temporary move, allowing Wakana and I more space together.
In June she's returning to Japan in order to get her work visa
renewed, and then she'll come back here. When she returns,
she'll stay with me where I'm living while we look for our own
place. Two months after this, we're going to Australia for
a week or so. It will be time for me to go back for a
holiday, and if she's still around and close to me, then she's
coming too. I'll show her around Canberra, Sydney and the
coast. It should be fun. <smile>
For a while now, I've been unable to gain access to FTP
capabilities due to my work having upgraded their firewall and
prevented external FTP access. However, they've done some
more changes and now I've got FTP access back again.
Due to the busy nature of my social life, and with work
preventing me from updating my website, I haven't been able to
properly maintain this journal. Now that I've got access
from work again, I'll be able to spend more time on this (I have
more time to do this at work than I do at home!).
I applied for a new role here at Computerland today. It's
for the position of Helpdesk Support Co-ordinator. If I
get it, it'll mean I won't be on the phones like I am now, which
would be just fantastic! It's more of an administrative /
management role, which should give me a lot more money than I'm
getting now. The stress will be much higher too. I'm
not sure if I want it, but I'll find out more about the position
(during the interview) and then make my decision. If they
offer it to me, that's when the decision will be made. The
money is attractive, and if they think I can fulfil the
requirements, then I may just agree with them...
Wednesday - 10th
April 2002 -
7:30pm
I've just spent the past hour updating the administration of
this site. All the journal archives were in a single
archive folder, but I've now split that up into the different
years, and put the different months into the appropriate year.
Then I updated the archive index, as I hadn't touched that since
last year. Phew! Finally finished. It feels
much better now...
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