Tag: 30. April 2013

The 4th week

Hi Guys
Yesterday was obviously the start in the 4th week – and it was ok. At work I programmed at my SMTP/web service project. I’m so lucky that I didn’t make an apprenticeship to a software developer.
It is very difficult to fix problems at my own program. The first part of the day I wrote some methods to get “Event Notification” from “SendGrid”. An Event Notification is a message from SendGrid, which gives you information about the following: what does the User do with your mail? For example is the mail clicked, bounced, delivered, spam reported or unsubscribed.
Until lunch I had many problems with the syntax. Like every time at lunch my colleagues and I talked about the weekend and other topics.
I think that my English gets better from time to time. After lunch I fixed my own programming issues. I was really happy about it. At home we cooked and sent a mail to a wakeboard club, for a request. Also, we search for a rental car shop. It is disappointing how less cars shops are open at the long weekend.
Today I programmed a method, which saves the data into a log file or into a database and I tried to send a message to “SendGrid” with a value of 200. With this value, SendGrid checks if I get the data correct.
Meanwhile Google became my best friend :D. After work Stefan and I purchased something for the packets and visited the post office.
At home I cleaned the bathroom and our living room. After that I cooked the dinner and I research further for a car.

See you guys Cheers 😉

#11 – So less time

Hi Guys,

I somehow feel the urge to tell you about something else I noticed by now – we have WAY too less free time whatsoever to do everything we would like to do. Especially as Erik and I (I don’t know too well about the working times of the others) work from 0930 a.m. to 0600 p.m. We then have to add the way to and off work what makes it effectively from 0845 a.m. to 1900 p.m. These are quite long days, what makes it impossible to do anything them. And no one has enough energy to go through the whole weekend with action and events all the time and stay healthy, what cuts off one day again.

That means we have just 1 day to get a decent view on Ireland which is just way too less to go for longer trips. I guess anyone else will agree on that one.

Luckily we have an extended weekend upcoming so Erik and Nick are making plans for a trip to the west coast of Ireland. That will be exciting!

But I’m drifting off, what I wanted to say is – there is so much what we’d like to do but can’t that it’s getting a bit disappointing.

Opposed to Alex I believe the only solution for that is more free time, which does not account for less working hours, as about no one will use the given time after work. But an additional free day should do plenty for the people that want to do and see interesting stuff here. Of course there will be the ones that won’t use the time but that’s their personal problem.

That’s all I wanted to say, thanks for your attention!

— TO BE CONTINUED —

Not enough time!?

Dear reader,

after the fist over hours in my short life I was really proud after a round-mail from my boss Tom. Of course it is not normal to except some over hours on a Friday, especially for a guy with an internship,  but for me it was a pleasure to help them. Now I have 2 free days on Thursday and Friday so anyway it has worth for me. I think the next Monday (6th June) the whole country have a day for free so it’s he perfect time to have 2 free days 😀 Nothing really happened since my trip on Saturday.

With Erik and Stefan I talked about a difficult theme. We start working at 9 or 10 p.m. and come back at 6 or 7 p.m.. There is not much time to do a lot of thins like sight seeing because you need to buy food and wash your clothes and stuff like that on the weekends. But what is a solution for that? Maybe one extra day for free per week? I don’t think so. A lot of students won’t use that day for sight seeing. Only for drinking and other stuff like playing some videos games. When my colleagues here have an opinion to that they’re invited to write something to this topic 🙂

Cheers,

Alex