This weekend was franks birthday and wendyhouse. I set off from Aberdeen about 12:30pm for around 6 hours I had a 10 minute fuel stop in Leith, in Edinburgh., by which point I was rounding where the A68 turns into the A69. Running out day light on small twist back roads I decided to head for Newcastle and major road networks. Stopped at Baylys new house and very nice it is too, we talked rubbish, went out for beers and pizza and seen the local "wildlife" and then watched Batman year one.

Leeds the next day, was good to be back in yorkshire and seeing orange, al and their housemates (lovely people). Frank appeared later there was pub and silliness followed by Wendy and silliness. Was great to catch up to so many folk I hadn't seen in ages. There may have been inadvertent hangover.

The next day was full breakie and then booting up the A65, It was a beautiful, cold, crisp day. I was feeling rather Zen and a touch sad at leaving west yorkshire. For some reason I always equate the A65 with the road home, so progressed along in no real rush enjoying some the amazing views. Had a brief stop at Devils Bridge then booted up the M6 stopping at Hamilton services to assess my energy levels and decided another 3 hours would be too much and went my bed in barrhead. I am getting into work late today but its been a nice weekend that's been exhausting but enjoyable.

There we are.

Flipping through my LJ Memorys I found this peice of London History
with the Rodent Invasion of Fluffy, Pog, Nick and Emmies house in
Stratford ... ahh the good old days :)

http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?itemid=18343232

I usually have a list here of *all* the things I should do this year
I am going to have an achieveable resolution. It is my intention this
year to drive a tank, and to do one of the ones where you get to crush
a car! In you face resolutions of the Gym and everything else ... this
is one New Years Resolution I can do :)

You know life I bet you think you are fucking funny, lets see just
how funny you feel with my foot jammed up you're ass!

there should be 10 things i like but not up to talking about
myself right now, maybe later today.

A friend who does application support is looking for some advice on the
differences in standard application support and banking application support
if you have experince or know someone who has experince of this and wouldn't
mind him doing some brain picking it would be appreciated, get in touch and
I'll pas them on.

Cheers :)



is wondering if anyone on here has worked within the IT sphere of a banking/finance setup? Basically interested in the perceived differences within support as opposed to other businesses. Such as security, methodology and such. Just so I have a way of talking round things if I apply for such a role without a banking background.

I have my HTC Desire back again, unfortunately something went
wrong with the memory card and I've lost all my settings and
numbers. So if i should have your number leaving it in a comment
on Livejournal (post is open and comments screened) or drop me
a text with your name so I know who you are, or send me an
email mail@davidphillips.info really need a new PC so i can
back my numbers up.

Well, I've been saying for several years now that I want a change
and today I went to see a Adult Careers Advisor. She was happy
because I made her job rather easier by have a set amount of idea's
in place about what I'd like to do. The important thing is that I
want to eventually be on a decent wage, not neccissarily a fortune
but enough to live comfortably. My Idea's where Careers Advisor,
this was actually what my mother went into doing several years back
and at the time I thought actually didn't sound like too bad a job.

The Careers service in Scotland is apparently much better than
England although I was hoping once I had enough experince to move
into a University Position. I have to work out how to fund my
Postgraduate Degree QCG (Qualification in Careers Guidance) if i
decide to go down that route. I have the choice of Full Time (One
Year) or Part Time (two years) at either Huddersfield University or
Nottingham Trent University. It opens up a few fields not just
Careers Guidance but am very tempted. If I was to work for the
Careers Service apparently I'd be better doing it in scotland.

I also asked about councilling, and apparently there really isn't
much work avaliable in it, it would be a 3 years course of full
time study to get qualified and would be working eventually with
the Nhs, Charity funded orginisation or private conmpanies. Also
mentioned was Occupational Health which was interesting. I think
i've made my decision just have to work out how I am going to make
it work now.