Speaking of Christmas, our holiday party was this past Wednesday. It was held in a restaurant of sorts, but with a twist. It was actually an old factory which had been converted into an event hall. On this particular evening it was a “dinner spectacle” and with good reason — it was actually a carnival complete with juggling, gymnastics and “high wire” acts, fire breathing, knife throwing, and silly animal tricks!

It was lots of fun and I got to meet a lot of people from BIG whom I hadn’t had the occasion to meet yet.

Anyways, I’ll be gone until the new year, so there most likely won’t be any updates until then. I just hope I don’t run out of storage for my cameras!

So what’s there to say that hasn’t been said already? I guess I haven’t talked about work yet. I’m having a good time so far though it can get a little boring at times. Mostly due to the same old “work, eat, sleep” daily grind which is pretty much the same no matter where you go. The fun of being in a new city wears off pretty quickly once you get into your daily rhythm and the days start to blend into each other. The whole week is spent looking forward to the weekend and the whole weekend dreading another work week on Monday.

It doesn’t help that my job so far has been fairly uninteresting. Ok, maybe uninteresting isn’t the right word. We’re actually doing lots of interesting things but most of them aren’t tech related. I’m really the only IT guy and since we’re still in startup mode, IT isn’t getting too much attention. It’s up to me get the ball rolling but unfortunately that ball has to roll uphill.

This Wednesday is a big board meeting which should give us some breathing room for at least another six months and on January 1st we move into our new offices so things are definitely starting to look up. With that out of the way we should be able to get to work on real things and actually produce something more than budgets and expenditure reports. It should be an interesting next couple of months — and hopefully fun too.