It's been about 3 weeks since I started my first job in 3 years. I mostly have a routine set. It's not so bad. For the Sundays though, I have had this dread feeling when thinking about having to go to work for the next 5 days. That's pretty normal, right?

Anyway, my apartment is about 100m from the beach. 4th floor so I can see the ocean from the living room. Pool on the roof. Two bedroom, and I have 2 Japanese girls as sharemates (I have one room, and they are room-sharing in the other). I ride my bicycle to work, eat lunch next to the river, and the workplace itself has a subsidised gym.

As with any large organisation though, it's taken a while to get all my logins and access to everything I need set up properly. In fact my name was not spelled correctly, and it's taken the 3 weeks to get it corrected. And then when it was corrected, my login changed, and I had to get access to everything all over again.

On Friday my new ADSL2+ modem was delivered. Now, I live in the middle of Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast. It's summer, and there are bikini girls everywhere. But when I downloaded the 90MB installation file for OpenOffice.org, and that download took 4 minutes, that my friend, that was the sexiest thing I have seen for a long time.

So I'm back, and anyone who's sent an email in the past couple of weeks would hopefully be happy with the response time. The old job does cut into the free time though, doesn't it? It's not just the working hours, it's the ironing, the packing the lunch, it's the travel time, it's the relaxation time needed afterwards. And let's not forget that I've decided to spend more time on my health. And now that I'm not in hicksville, there is the woman-hunting to think of.

Still, I got v0.9.2 out today, and v0.9.3 shouldn't be too far behind.