The fourth workweek is already over and now I’ve finally my „own“ little project. After we were at the hospitals (Royal Victoria Hospital & Belfast City Hospital) again, to replace a BIOS battery of the SAN volume controller and a hard drive, I’ve switched over to the apps team. Since Wednesday I try to work myself in a charity project. The task is the development of a website for the charity organization Hope and a Future. So I’am trying to get used to the ASP.NET MVC which is quite similar to the Bootstrap framework, that Tim and me used in our HTML course last year. Today nearly the whole office went to a Mexican restaurant for lunch, to eat burritos and stuff. For me it was finally the first really spicy meal here in Belfast, that’s why that was definitely not my last visit there.
Have you guys ever had a song stuck in your head because you heard it somewhere, even though you didn’t hear the whole song but actually only caught a snippet over a conversation in a pub? For me it is this song that’s stuck in my head since yesterday evening. I heard it in the Glencormac Inn at the bottom of the Sugar Loaf Mountain in Wicklow. A group of 14 people from System Dynamics went up the mountain after work. It was a good hike and at the end of the day I had 17898 steps on my pedometer and a couple of sandwiches as well as 2 Guinness in my tummy.
Down there at the pub
Halway, almost all the way around 😉
Allllllllllmost there
Whoooohooo!
Also, Mr. Bavar, Mrs. Teichmann and Mrs. Neumann came to System Dynamics yesterday to see how and what I’m doing here. It was nice to be able to show someone what I actually do here instead of just having to describe it as best I can. Nicola and Eamonn were talking to them as well over tea and coffee.
Because I didn’t want to go to the hike in my work clothes, I changed into jeans and a t-shirt. Unfortunately, I’m a man of habit and my habit is to keep my Leapcard in my pants pocket… my work pants pocket…
I didn’t have any change for the bus but Bridgitta, a colleague from SD, gave me 3€ so I could at least take the bus home. I decided to walk to work this morning to bring my step count up and also because I didn’t have enough money at home. It was a nice exercise, took me just over an hour and brought me 8k steps for today. I’m now up to ~9500 and I’m thinking about walking home, as well. That would easily be another 17k-18k steps for today but I’ll sleep in tomorrow because I have to get a rest at some point. Depending on the weather, I might walk up to Howth around noon tomorrow but I might also just do that on Sunday or even next weekend. We’ll see…
Hey yesterday we got another Dell Poweredge R620. So today is deploy time and that means: clicking install, wait 30 minutes, clicking install and so on and so on… It’s not the most exciting task but it have to be done. More interesting will be the deployment in the data center. We don’t know when yet, because we miss one server. We expected two to be delivered but only got one. We’ll see where it goes from there. And then I write about my data center visit again.
