It took a couple of weeks, but I finally have a computer and an Internet connection in my house. Canada is awesome and I’m very excited about settling in here.
My Internet connection is amazing - 15MB download speed and it’s not strangled anywhere (unlike my ISP in England strangling all Torrents). The hard bit will be remembering that I can’t abuse my new-found Internet powers!
Tomorrow I am off into the great unknown, more commonly referred to as Nova Scotia, Canada. Big step, but I am very excited.
Or at least I will be once I am through customs and secure in my new house!
I haven’t talked about this before because people from work know where this blog is and we didn’t want to announce anything too early, but next month I will be emigrating. My mother is Canadian so I’ve had Canadian citizenship for years. It’s always been a part of my long-term plan to move there eventually.
In October I will have been in my current role for three years. It is time to move on and find some new challenges. There is nothing really left to learn about my role, there are no new projects on the horizon that will test me or force me to learn something new and it isn’t good to stagnate in this business. With that in mind, I can either find a new role within the company, move on but stay within the UK or take that final step and go to Canada.
Option three seems like the sensible one. Time is marching on and I’m worried that I’ll never do it if I don’t take this opportunity.
My last day with my current employer is 25th July (I’m informed that there will be a slap-up do for me - hooray for good food!) and then I fly out on 9th August. It’s both exciting and terrifying but I know that it’s the right thing for me at this stage.
This blog has been cleaned up, dusted down, upgraded to the latest of everything and made properly functional again. Hooray!
On checking the status of the blog a couple of weeks ago, I noted that the posts were ordered backwards. A quick search of the forums revealed that this was a common problem when hosts had upgraded their MySQL and users had not upgraded their WP blog (guilty as charged) but unfortunately I jetted off to Canada for a few days and I have only just had the time to sit down and properly sort out the upgrades.
Never mind. I’ve dusted off with the intention of being a little better at blogging here so we’ll see how it goes this time.
In preperation for dusting this off and actually becoming a better blogger here, I’m just testing the system.